PaintBound-V3.1 — Canvas, Specular & Subsurface Scattering!

✨ New Features

• Canvas Mode — New Woven canvas texture Drawing Surface for Paint mode.
• Subsurface Scattering — New soft glow that lets light shine through blocks like leaves.
• Per-Surface Specular — Water, Glass, and Ice now have independent specular.
• Directional Light Strength — New sliders for how strongly sun/moon direction affects shading.

🔧 Improvements

• Newer Block Support — Added many newer Minecraft blocks (vines, azaleas, mangrove/cherry leaves, copper bulbs, etc).
• Bloom Intensity — Reduced, bloom no longer stacks up to blown-out white.
• Godrays — Slightly brighter, warmer by default.
• Drawing Surface Menu Reorganized — Paper settings renamed/regrouped to make room for Canvas.
• Handheld Light — No longer stacks with block light, fixing brightness beyond what's natural.
• Block Light Daylight Fade Fix — Torches etc. now correctly dim in full daylight.
• Glass Self-Shadowing Fix — Glass (and similar) no longer incorrectly shadows/tints itself.
• Water Vertex Distortion Fix — Fixed some block entities waving like water.

⚠️ Known Issues

• Stars do not render in Painterly mode.
• Skybox Texture Outlines (sun/moon/stars) fail to render through ice and stained glass.

PaintBound-V3.0 — New Styles!

✨ New Features

• Blueprint Mode — A new Drawing Style. White linework on a blue background, no textures, with a world grid.
• Chalkboard Mode — A new Drawing Style. White chalk on a dark board, no textures, with a chalk dust haze.
• Comic Mode — A new Drawing Style. Bold, solid lines with cel shading and Ben-Day dots.
• Textureless Comic Mode — A new Drawing Style. Same as Comic, but with textures disabled.
• World Grid — New grid system for Blueprint Mode.
• Pencil Dust — New haze/smudge overlay tinted with the current Pencil Color, used by Chalkboard Mode.
• Ben-Day Dots — New shading style alongside Hatching, used by Comic and Textureless Comic.
• Pencil Blend Mode — New Multiply/Screen setting for how the pencil color combines with the page, so light-colored pencils (like Blueprint's white lines) render correctly.
• Paper Color Overhaul — Paper/board color moved from a single Warmth slider to full Hue, Saturation, and Brightness (whiteness) controls, so it's no longer limited to sepia tones. Powers the Blueprint and Chalkboard backgrounds.
• Split Light Colors — Block light (torches, lanterns, etc.) and celestial light (sun/moon) now have independent colors instead of sharing one lightmap tint.
• Sunset-Tinted Sunlight — Direct sunlight now blends toward a golden-hour color near sunrise/sunset.
• Moon Phase Brightness — Moonlight brightness now scales with the actual moon phase.
• Sunlight/Moonlight Brightness Controls — New separate ambient and direct brightness sliders for daytime sunlight and nighttime moonlight.
• Voxy Support — Added dedicated compatibility shaders for Voxy.
• Vanilla Clouds — Clouds setting now has seperate third option to use Minecraft's built-in clouds instead of PaintBound's shader clouds (requires Clouds also enabled in Minecraft's own Video Settings).

🔧 Improvements

• Entity Vertex Distortion — Vertex Distortion is now applied to Entities, and is enabled by default.
• Cloud/Glass Fix — Fixed volumetric clouds appearing to render in front of glass.
• Cloud/Pencil Line Fix — Fixed volumetric clouds suppressing the player's own pencil line rendering.
• Block Light Brightness - Increased default block light brightness.
• Style Auto Defaults — Updated Drawing Style "Auto" documented values.

⚠️ Known Issues

• Stars do not render in Painterly mode.
• Skybox Texture Outlines (sun/moon/stars) fail to render through ice and stained glass.

PaintBound-V2.4 — Skies!

✨ New Features

• Shader Skies — Added a custom shader driven skybox.
• Sky Kuwahara — Added a kuwahara filter thats applied directly to the skybox.
• Shader Clouds — (Iris only) Added shader based volumetric clouds, inspired by the clouds in Escheridia by jrwilliamson
• Whiteout Sky — Added a "Whiteout Sky" setting that replaces the sky with a blank canvas. Useful for screenshots.
• Outline Pencil Mode — Saw a user doing that so thought I'd add it as a dedicated mode.
• Lava "fog" — Added a screen space overlay that shows up when you're in lava or powdered snow.
• Star settings — Added some star settings.

🔧 Improvements

• Rain Transparency — Rain opacity decreased to 50%.
• Rain Fog — Fog now increases just slightly in rain.
• Bloom Performance — Improved performance of soft bloom.
• Hatching Performance — Hatching angles are now pre-baked for better performance.
• Sky Settings — Moved sky settings into the Atmosphere & Water tab.
• Cleanup — Removed some unused textures.

⚠️ Known Issues

• Stars do not render in Painterly mode.
• Skybox Texture Outlines (sun/moon/stars) fail to render through ice and stained glass.

PaintBound-V2.3 — Eyes!

✨ New Features

• Nothing, sorry 😢 — Just wanted to do a quick bugfix so ya'll get the least broken version!

🔧 Improvements

• Eye rendering — Fixed glowing eyes randomly clipping into entity textures.
• Eye brightness — Fixed enderman eyes being too bright in daylight.

⚠️ Known Issues

• Sky Texture Outlines (sun/moon/stars) fail to render through ice and stained glass.

PaintBound-V2.2 — Settings!

✨ New Features

• Fog Setting — From popular demand, added setting to turn off border fog and water based fog. This MARGINALLY improves Voxy support (still needs work).

🔧 Improvements

• Complete settings UI overhaul — ITS ORGANIZED
• Reduced file size — I accidentally left an ENTIRE development version in the last upload.... That's fixed!
• Godray Tint improvement — Godray tint now only impacts color modes, and has had a significantly increased default.
• Dual-Godrays improvement — Godrays are MUCH smoother & more consistent at sunrise and sunset (not perfect).

⚠️ Known Issues

• Sky Texture Outlines (sun/moon/stars) fail to render through ice and stained glass.

PaintBound-V2.1 — 1st Hotfix!

✨ New Features

• Lut Creator! — Added an included script to make custom luts!

🔧 Improvements

• Reduced file size — Removed unused luts and palette png's.

⚠️ Known Issues

• Sky Texture Outlines (sun/moon/stars) fail to render through ice and stained glass.

PaintBound-V2.0 — Initial Release

We are starting with V2.0 to stay in sync with SketchBound versioning. This changelog represents the changes over SketchBound-V1.3

✨ New Features

• Painterly Mode — A new Drawing Style that uses a Kuwahara filter to give the world an painted look!
• Volumetric Godrays — Crepuscular rays radiating from the sun and moon.
• Purkinje Effect — At night, colours desaturate and shift toward blue-green, simulating how human vision works in low light.
• Dynamic Handheld Light Sources — Handheld light-emitting blocks (torches, lanterns, etc.) now illuminate surroundings.
• Color Temperature — New slider in Color Grading to shift white balance toward warm or cool tones.

🔧 Improvements

• Color Palettes now use LUTs by default — Dramatically faster than the old brute-force lookup. The old Custom 1×N mode is still available for testing palettes from sites like lospec.com, and a new Custom LUT option lets you supply your own pre-baked LUT.
• White Vignette now has three separate controls (Strength, Radius, Softness) grouped in a dedicated sub-screen.
• Cave Darkness — A new slider to control how dark underground areas are. Also fixes the root cause: previously the shader used the wrong sky-light value, making caves nearly as bright as the surface.
• Shadow transition fix — Fixed a visual shadow artifact that appeared briefly at sunrise and sunset.
• PaintBound Specific - Updated the default mode to be Painterly mode.

⚠️ Known Issues

• Sky Texture Outlines (sun/moon/stars) fail to render through ice and stained glass.