Here we go guys, here's a massive new update that addresses various issues as well as adds some highly requested features! For a small rundown we have various improvements to SSR, completely overhauled volumetrics, and CLOUDS!

Escherida V4.0

Lighting

Lighting hasn't seen too many changes but some things have been tweaked and adjusted

• Moonlight should be far less intense on the enviornment
• Tweaked skylight intensities
• Tweaked sunlight intensities and colors
• Early sunrise should no longer be bright pink and should now correctly be deep pink
• Reduced moonlight saturation
• Fixed an issue where SSS would be far brighter than the overall lighting at early sunrise/sunrise
• Improved handling of LabPBR SSS

Atmosphere

This is going to be the largest section by far as so much has changed

• Added High quality volumetric fog option (on by default)
• This option enables a much more advanced volumetric fog model that is far better than the old at a slight performance cost
• Volumetric fog has been split into 2 options, basic and advanced. basic works for the old model, advanced for the new model.
• Advanced settings contain height, density, and noise distribution options (noise distribution requires non uniform fog to be enabled)
• Added volumetric clouds
• comes in 2 styles, boxy and fantasy
• NOTE: Fantasy clouds are sampled on a 2D cloud map so they do cut off at the top, there is no way around this until improved to use 3D maps.
• NOTE 2: Clouds do not currently fade cleanly into the background, this will be improved in the future
• Slightly adjusted skylight colors

Materials

This is mostly going to cover SSR tweaks

• Fixed an issue that resulted in SSR missing perfectly good rays
• Fixed an issue where parts of the environment being reflected would break off of the main reflection and appear disconnected
• SSR will now reflect the sky if no sky reflections are present

thats it for V4.0. This update breathes a whole new life into Escheridia and I'm happy for you all to experience it finally!