Added
- New settings window built with Arkea: pages, presets, search, previews and a GPU impact meter
- Initial mod setup for Minecraft 26.3 on NeoForge
- Vulkan render core that draws the whole world through Helion's own stages with a picture identical to vanilla
- Own color and depth buffers for the world image
- Automatic fallback to vanilla rendering on OpenGL, with Sodium or Iris, or after a rendering error
- Toggle key (H) to switch between Helion and vanilla rendering
- Debug mode that shows every Helion value on screen, logs it as JSON and runs the parity check with the J key
- Parity check image that marks every differing pixel, plus a warning when the game was not frozen during the check
- Parity check that compares two frames from the same tick, so flickering torch light no longer counts as a difference
- Settings screen with render core and debug mode options
- Ambient occlusion with quality presets, strength, radius and a shadow-only view
- Visibility bitmask ambient occlusion as an alternative method that keeps thin objects from casting dark halos
- Experimental geometry buffer: terrain drawn by Helion shaders that also record normals, block light, sky light and base color
- Experimental HDR lighting for terrain with separate block and sky light and intensity settings
- Experimental temporal anti-aliasing that smooths block edges and distant textures
- Experimental physical sky with spectral sky colors and fog that matches the sky in every direction
- Experimental sun and moon shadows from blocks with quality presets
- Bloom around bright light sources that adapts to daylight, caves and night, with intensity, threshold and a glow-only view
- Neutral and Filmic tone mapping, exposure control and dithering against color banding
- Optional contrast adaptive sharpening with a strength setting
- English and Turkish translations
Changed
- Adopt the Aryston Source-Available License
- Draw the moon dimmer than the sun so it no longer glows like a second sun