RenderPearl

Improvements

• Significantly improved Shadows and Volumetric Light
  • Volumetric Light is now enabled by default and has three new customization options: VL Base, Sun and Sky
  • Lighting now uses shadow samplers, allowing for smoother shadows and light rays
  • Modified Light Color
  • Shadows & Colored Shadows are now always enabled
  • Shadow Distance Culling is now 3D, improving performance
  • Added Shadow Fade option (Misc)
  • Waves now cast shadows
• Rewrote most of gbuffers, removing unnecessary calculations and alpha tests, allowing the use the GLSL Early Fragment Test instead of a custom depth test, simplifying the code, fixing shadow rendering while moving the camera and possibly improving performance
• Improved Clouds
• Made more blocks and items emissive and added a range of brightness (1-15) for emissive blocks
• Modified FXAA (no longer based on BSL)
• Optimized FXAA and Sharpening

New Features

• Added Phong lighting with Specular Reflectivity & Shininess options
• Replaced Sun Brightness with Sun & Sky Bloom options
• Added Color Format, Skip Clear and Immutable Constants optimization/misc options

Fixed issues

• Hand lighting direction is incorrect
• Block Entity rendering in The End doesn't work
• Shadows don't render on Entities