2.8.0-beta.0 - RenderPearl

New Features

Alpha tint and chunk fade are now applied to translucent geometry.
The fragment shader for translucent lit geometry has been completely rewritten, and now implements ray traced hand light. Per-pixel light list-based block light is also available with graphics drivers that support subgroup operations and subgroupBroadcast with a non-constant index (most common drivers except AMD's for Windows).
- The vertex shader implementation of light list-based block light has been removed.
The option to apply a directional multiplier to ambient occlusion has now been added and is enabled by default (works towards #8).
A sun path rotation of zero is now allowed (works towards #12).
The sizes of celestial bodies can now be configured (works towards #12).
End flashes now affect lighting in the end.
Shadow distortion is now configurable and tuned better in the different profiles.

Opaque and translucent lit geometry now share the same rewritten vertex shader and vertex data format for much reduced code duplication.
Light list colors are now manually packed using atomics when 16-bit integers are disabled, halving memory usage.
A slightly faster version of the GGX specular D term is now used when 16-bit floats are disabled.
Lighting-related functions are now shared between shaders for forward and deferred rendering, reducing code duplication.
Emissiveness is now handled slightly better. LabPBR support is still not implemented but planned for a future release.
The shadow bias has been improved, reducing various artifacts such as light leaks.

Extensions may be enabled after actual code.
Translucent geometry is lit incorrectly when rendered before the deferred lighting pass (Closes #15, Closes #18, Closes #19).
- This was caused by some changes in vanilla Minecraft breaking an Iris feature that RenderPearl relied on.
Blending and render targets are sometimes configured incorrectly.