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Aetherstone r21.9.26 NEW - Cloud shadows: soft shade drifts over the ground and falls under the clouds you see. Shade under a cloud turns slightly blue. - Sunlight glows through the shaded edges of sand, grass, dirt, snow, wool and animals. - Texture Detail: a fine pixel grain that makes textures look higher resolution. - Natural Specular: soft shine on leaves, grass and sand, from the sun and the moon. - Iron, gold, glass, gems and light sources look like their blocks when worn, held, dropped or in item frames. No resource pack needed. - Pixel Shadows (optional): shadow edges follow the texture's pixel grid. - Second water swell, so distant water no longer looks tiled. Max adds Extra Swells. - Orange horizon band at sunrise and sunset. The moon now hides behind clouds. - Wet roofs, metal and glass reflect the same clouds as water. - Your own shadow now shows even with Mob Shadows off. - New sliders: Leaf Brightness, Blade Edge Light, Grass Shadow Softness, Sky Reflection Strength, Moon Behind Clouds, Horizon Band, Metal Brightness, Sun Highlight Size. PRESETS Six now: Potato, Balanced, Recommended, Pretty, Pretty Alt Style (new) and Max. Potato: the bare minimum that still looks like Aetherstone, now at 65% render scale. Balanced: the cheapest good-looking preset. Adds screen reflections, sun bloom and sharper shadows. Recommended: everything on, tuned for FPS. Adds water world reflections. Pretty: one step up on every setting. Shadows reach 256 blocks. Pretty Alt Style: Pretty with hard pixel shadows and a bolder ink outline. Max: every quality slider at its highest. MENU - Every setting, page and preset has a short description with a colour-coded cost. - Pages regrouped by topic, simpler Quick Settings, and a Performance page listing everything that costs FPS. - Clearer names, e.g. Warm Shadow Edge, Textured Waves, Caustic Density. DISTANT HORIZONS - Fixed LOD terrain being lit as if in permanent shadow, and slopes coming out darker than real chunks. - LOD terrain has surface variation instead of flat colour, and fog blends better into the distance. - Fixed thin lines across distant LOD water. - Shadows no longer pop in and out in steps as you walk. FIXES - Water reflections no longer lag or slide while the camera moves. - Shadows now touch the objects casting them instead of floating off. - Cloud shadows no longer land under the wrong cloud or slide when you fly. - No more stuck white dot or doubled sun and moon in reflections. - Metal looks like metal and no longer goes black at night. Gems reflect properly. - Armour and held items now use resource pack PBR maps. - Waterfalls no longer look like a flat mirror. Underwater is no longer black at night. - Motion blur no longer gets too long at low FPS. - Cloud Cover slider no longer runs backwards. - Tree shadows are fixed on high-resolution and 3D-leaf resource packs. LOOK - Slightly brighter with more contrast, a lighter sky and more orange sunsets. - Fog starts closer but builds gently, so distant chunks stay visible. - Slower clouds, softer default shadow edges, motion blur off on Recommended. PERFORMANCE - Leaf shadows use about half as many faces. Cloud shadows do nothing at night. - Mob Shadows are off on Recommended, which saves CPU around farms and villages. - Some new effects cost FPS. If you are at the edge of your target, try the next preset down. KNOWN ISSUES - Distant Horizons terrain receives shadows but does not cast them. - Cloud shadows fall on terrain only, not on water or mobs.