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Dog Chud getting heightmogged by a catchad

I think the extra Volumetric Fog water has is completely unnecessary.
All it does is make terain behind waterfalls very ugly.

It also limits the players vision significantly compared to vanilla. And it's quite performance heavy and reponsible for many bugs

(in order, fog on, fog off, vanilla)

And I've discovered yet another problem with the current approach to water.
It's impossible to tell different biomes apart as you can't see the water tint.

Rn there's no tint at all. Ig it could be added but without a solid texture it'd still be too subtle to notice

During noon shadows appear "stretched" on the sides of blocks. This looks weird imo

Lava appears too red. It looks like tomato sauce

Specular reflections tend to wash out the texture details at certain angles
Makes the material look super flat

(Obsidian seems to suffer most from this)

Leaves are too shiny and metallic. They look... well metallic

Idk if this a bug or not but blacks are extremely washed out with Vibrant Visuals

My skin's hand is fully black (#000000) but with VV it appears to be light gray during the day

Regular blocks also seem washed out to me but to a lesser degree

Visibility underwater is greately reduce with VV enabled.

This is a major hindrance and will force players to temporarily turn off VV when working on anything underwater.

The underwater aspect of Vibrant Visuals should be reworked for better visibility (hopefully matching the clarity of non-VV)

Another example. Can you tell that the lake isn't filled in correctly with Vibrant Visuals enabled?

Here's some more issues with water.
This ties to what I was talking about but the readibility of water also relies heavily on water caustics. Due to a bug where caustics don't appear on translucent blocks you can see (or rather can't see) that water is almost invisible with VV enabled

A shader that stays closer to vanilla in this regard is Complementary Reimagined. It keeps the vanilla water texture.
Sure it's less realistic but you can still easily tell how the water flows.

I don't think you need to completely scrap the current water style, but just add a regular texture to it.

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Water no longer has a texture and purely works off PBR. This poorly conveys information about the state of the water.

This will likely result in players having a temporarily turn off VV when working on technical builds, where having the water flow in very precise ways can be very important

I didn't notice it before but this language oddy kind of Yoru lol. "I'm ASA'S other personality" as in the opposite of the usually possessive language she uses.
Portraying herself as an extension of Asa's rather than the other way around.

if only the EU citizens initiative got enough votes maybe there'd be some government support for this

sadly looks unlikely as it took 1 year to go from 300k to 400k (and you can't vote if you're not european ofc)

the worst part about this is that most americans wont care and the rest support this
absolutely demonic nation

wahallah I'm finished