Alpha Piscium v1.6.5

This is likely going to be the last release for 1.6, and we will then move on to the 1.7 shadow update.

New

• Added option for entity/particle emissive multiplier

Improvement

• Added depth write to water parallax
• Improved water volumetrics with multiple scattering approximation

Fix

• Fixed wave parallax at larger scale setting
• Fixed caustics

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With multiple scattering approximation:

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Alpha Piscium v1.6.4

Improvement

• Improved water parallax quality with secant search (which should fix the random lines on water waves)
• Improved water wave

Alpha Piscium v1.6.3

New

• Added option for emissive particle

Improvement

• Better Fix for downward-facing reflection direction
• Tweaked water wave detail noise
• Tweaked water wave large scale curl
• Added PBR fallback for DH

Fix

• Fixed wave normal grid pattern artifacts
• Fixed epipolar scattering shadow vector setup
• Fixed random exploding water scattering
• Fixed Hi-Z SST max mip clamping
• Fixed shadow AABB detection when using DH
• Fixed TBN for DH translucents

Misc

• Removed garbage hf curl data

Alpha Piscium v1.6.2

Fix

• Fixed the malfunctioned environment probe reprojection caused by the wrong deferred pass name
• Fixed accidentally disabled water epipolar scattering shadow sampling

Alpha Piscium v1.6.1

Fix

• Fixed distant horizon support
• Fixed AMD && bvec compilation error
• Fixed env probe not resetting on time change

Alpha Piscium v1.6.0

New

• Added sponsor list
• Adeed volumetric water rendering
• Added water reflection+refraction rendering
• Added experimental photon tracing caustics for water

Improvement

• Optimized GI reprojection
• Better refract fade at screen edge
• Optimized Hi-Z SST
• Optimized uniform data access
• Optimized aerial perspective raymarching
• Optimized performance of atomic writes in epipolar atmosphere unwarp and exposure histogram building
• Added environment probe temporal mix stabilization

Fix

• Fixed shadow depth linearizing
• Fixed fireflies caused by sqrt negative bug

Misc

• Added option to skip accumulating initial frames in screenshot mode TAA

(Maps: Baboon Squad, 花の海, Greenfield)

Alpha Piscium v1.6.0-Beta4

New

• Added real water volumetric rendering
• Added water scattering and absorption coefficient settings
• Added water roughness settings

Improvement

• Improved water wave
• Optimized aerial perspective raymarching
• Optimized performance of atomic writes in epipolar atomosphere unwarp and exposure histogram building
• Removed unneeded texel pos clamp in sst

Fix

• Fixed shadow too much peter panning caused by missing writes to gbuffer data fields (thanks Tahnass)
• Fixed NaN in translucent refract/reflect
• Fixed water reflection direction pointing below water and refraction direction pointing above water

Misc

• Added option to skip accumulating intial frames in screenshot mode TAA

Notice

This is a pre-release, and serious bugs are expected. Please report any bugs you find. Known bugs include:

• Poor performance
• Wrong water reflection and refraction under water
• Bad water reflection and refraction

Alpha Piscium v1.6.0-Beta3

New

• Added experimental phton tracing caustics for water

Improvement

• Optimized Hi-Z SST
• Uniform data access optimization

Fix

• Fixed fireflies caused by sqrt negative bug

Notice

This is a pre-release, and serious bugs are expected. Please report any bugs you find. Known bugs include:

• Broken water lighting
• Poor performance
• Water wave error
• Bad water reflection and refraction

Alpha Piscium v1.6.0-Beta2

New

• Added sponsor list

Improvement

• Optimized GI reprojection
• Better refract fade at screen edge

Fix

• Fixed shadow depth linearizing

Notice

This is a pre-release, and serious bugs are expected. Please report any bugs you find. Known bugs include:

• Broken water lighting
• Poor performance
• Water wave error
• Bad water reflection and refraction

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After:

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Alpha Piscium v1.6.0-Beta1

New

• Testing water rendering
• Menu refactor

Notice

This is a pre-release, and serious bugs are expected. Please report any bugs you find. Known bugs include:

• Broken water lighting
• Poor performance
• Water wave error
• Bad water reflection and refraction