v0.1.4-alpha

• New features
  • Pipeline settings rewrite
    • Add preset mode for simplified settings
    • Add default module position to avoiod module overlap
  • Simplified labPBR texture load (No pre-process is necessary)
  • Tone mapping enhanced
    • Add center mode (depends on the pixels around cross air) and global mode
    • Add more mapping methods
    • Expose more settings
  • Integrated Nvidia SHaRC
  • Integrated XeSS SR (Windows only)
  • Ray Tracing module improved
    • Expose the part of ray tracing shaders for dynamic runtime modification (experimental, WIP)
    • Optimized the internal RT shaders for less registers and SMs usage
    • Split reflection and refraction in two paths for better reflection and refraction results
  • Rewrite NRD module following the NRD sample, works fine for reflections with Reblur. Relax will be added in the next versions.
    • Expose almost all ReBlur settings
    • Still a little bit noise for refractions. Optimization is WIP.
  • Add internal emission textures. It is still recommended to use a PBR terxture pack for better experience
• Issues fix
  • Fix the bug where it is pure black at certain time
  • Fix the path for wide character (Although DLSS still needs path with ASCII characters)
  • Fix the bug of the DLSS mode settings
  • Remove the selection box and hit box from the tracing path
  • Fix the incorrect labPBR decode
  • Fix hand for incorrect render issue
  • Fix the wrong vulkan texture format
  • Fix the module shift issue in pipeline mode
  • Fix memory leakage on host and GPU
  • Remove the hard dependency on DLSS. If the DLSS libs are absent, it will default to NRD.
  • Fixed the missing biome texture for grass block sides.

v0.1.3-alpha

Thank you for your patient. We can finally release our first alpha version v0.1.3.

• add dynamic pipeline with modularized render blocks
• CPU bottleneck issue solved (1.5x performance gain now)
• UI issue solved
• PBR texture packs supported
• update to the latest DLSS version
• added experimental NRD and FSR3 for non-nvidia users
• fix the bug where glowing particles appear problematic
• fix the bug where the particles get through at the corners
• fix the bug where the banner and shield patterns are not displayed correctly
• fix the bug where the boats are not rendered correctly
• fix the bug where the end portal and gateway are pure gray
• optimize the world loading and VRAM usage

v0.1.2-preview

• Screenshot functionality is now available
• Tuned the exposure algorithm for better sensitivity to bright areas, leading to less over-exposure

What's Next: This marks the last preview before alpha (where the code will be available). We are shifting focus to a new development phase, which planned to introduce:

• totally refactor the rendering pipeline to a modularized and customizable one
• PBR texture pack support
• Support for more industrial modules (e.g., FSR, NRD)
• Fixes for known bugs

Thank you for your feedback so far. Stay tuned, and we look forward to sharing more with you (hopefully) soon!

v0.1.1-preview

• Fixed the issue of frame flashback when moving

v0.1.0-preview

• First public preview version
• Full Vulkan rendering backend implementation
• Basic hardware ray tracing, and path tracing support. Features DLSS 4.