Announcements

[Despatra]

I know it seems a little early to be announcing the next update, but I can promise that the atmosphere update is nearing is completion!
The next update is called "Redefined", this is because the next update will be focusing on rewriting the shader almost entirely. And though this may sound boring, it will enable development for many features, some of which many of you have been asking for, including:

• Spectral capabilities
• Better ray transport (leading to less noise)
• Higher customization of the path tracer (leading to better results)
• Refractions (allowing for transparent materials to act accordingly)
  And much more!
  This will also allow me to better develop the future updates as I will be cleaning out all the crap and designing it to be more expandable.
  I've done this to many of my projects in the past and it always has been nothing but beneficial.

[Despatra]

I just wanted to make an announcement apologizing for the atmosphere being filled with issues.
I'm sure many of you have noticed, things like clouds, integrated PBR, and volumetric to name a few have blaring issues, or are just incorrect. And that is mostly in part of the fact that my shader pipeline, that being how shader passes contribute to the final image, along with my path tracer, are both very poorly written and messy. This also has caused a noticeable decrease in performance as I have had to write excess code that doesn't use what I already have (because it can't), using more expensive techniques.
I just wanted to let you all know I'm not ignoring these issues, and that I understand that these few previous updates could've been annoying with so many of them.

TLDR - I apologize for how many issues there are, and wanted to let you know I am going to fix them.