* Brightness adjustment for Skies
* Lighting improvement tweaks
* Minor fixes

* Many updates
* Performance Fix: 1st mission start FPS drop should be gone and smooth missions starts should be back again:)

New Biomes
New Biome: from v19 Early Acces on Patreon: Xeno Jungle
New Biome: Shrub Desert
Biome change: Deep Desert
Early Access Biome: Agriculture Lands on Patreon

Lighting extensions & fine-tuning

Lighting, Global Illumination (GI), Volumetric Fog and many more aspects of the Weather and Environment visuals have been fine-tuned, improved and vonBiomes brings a more advanced look than before.
Have a look at the mod options, on a modern card, you can enable all extensions. (Global Illumination, Volumetric Fog, High-Quality Shadows, and leave Volumetric Clouds on). On a 2070S card or equivalent, I disable the add-ons except Volumetric Clouds (standard setting).

Everything has been tested to run on around ~50- 60 FPS on the 2070S in 4K and maximum details. And even without Global Illumination, etc, it looks quite good. 😉
Quick note: Be sure that no other mod is overriding vonBiomes to get everything from the mod, otherwise (especially with other weather mods) this part of vonBiomes gets removed from the game.

New Mod option: High-quality Shadows
Rain: additional particle (heavy rain)
Texture updates for optimization
3000 clicks to change one thing everywhere
3000 more clicks to change it back
Enabling NIght and Dusk on vanilla Sulfur Biome
Foliage Updates and setting improvements

Volumetric clouds: more cloud shape variation and adjustments
Lightning lighting
New mod option: disable lightning lighting
Adjustments here and there
New Mod Option: Contrast setting
Adjustments to the MW5 background mountain textures.. hope that fixes the sometimes blunt looks of them
vonBiomes Nightvision Update
Background Object Optimizations

vonBiomes 18 is out and ready @everyone!
This is the Easter Special Edition, bringing you not only the new Coral Low Tide Biome from Patreon Early Access, but also a ton of improvements, fixes and more optimization for performance. Get the new version 18 as fast download on Patreon, or on Steam & Nexus!
Happy Easter!

Changelog:
* New Biome: Coral Low Tide
* Performance Upgrade: deep optimization of the new lighting system - please report any issues on Discord: https://discord.gg/aM9E3ZpaHQ
* New Mod Option Layout
* New Mod Option: Color Saturation
* New Mod Option: Random Color Grading FX
* Fix: Ambient Volume Mod Option should now also work with forest sounds
* Fix: One Volume Cloud Variant
* Improvements & Adjustments to vonBiomes integrated lighting
* Many other adjustments for materials, objects and more

* Fix for atmosphere conditions

vonBiomes 17:
* More polishing of Volumetric Clouds
* More polishing of new lighting overhaul
* Brightness fixes for Snow on Planet Orbits close by the Sun
* Mod Option for enabling Global Illumination
* Mod Option if you like brighter nights
* Many fixes and upgrades

Volumetric Cloud System with different cloud types, integrated cloud lighting, randomization, and more
Enhanced and extended light system with all the variables in calculations, from orbit distances, space nebulas, sky bodies colors and distances, cloud densities, biome modifiers, randomization and more
New Night-vision Material
Mod options for volumetric clouds settings, performance & more
Fixes and improvements from various biomes
Instant Action randomization for sun classes and planet orbits

Pre-Release: Final coming soon, too!

* More polishing of Volumetric Clouds
* More polishing of new lighting overhaul
* Brightness fixes for Snow on Planet Orbits close by the Sun
* Mod Option for enabling Global Illumination
* Mod Option if you like brighter nights
* Many fixes and upgrades

vonBiomes 17:
Volumetric Cloud System with different cloud types, integrated cloud lighting, randomization, and more
Enhanced and extended light system with all the variables in calculations, from orbit distances, space nebulas, sky bodies colors and distances, cloud densities, biome modifiers, randomization and more
New Night-vision Material
Mod options for volumetric clouds settings, performance & more
Fixes and improvements from various biomes
Instant Action randomization for sun classes and planet orbits

Beta Patch 3 with more light balancing and a new mod option for disabling ground smoke for performance / coop clients

Mini-Update for Steam: lowered the Volumetric Clouds Sample setting (normally accessible via Mod Options) to 1 because some of you on Steam do not have the Mod Options Mod installed.

This is a major overhaul with much work put into it during the last week! It not only extends the already existing volumetric clouds from Xenofungus and Desert Moon to all Biomes, but also has a widely reworked lighting system with tons of parameters. Each planet is different, each mission unique.
Since that is quite the thing, here is an official Beta Release first.

What is new:
Volumetric Cloud System with different cloud types, integrated cloud lighting, randomization, and more
Enhanced and extended light system with all the variables in calculations, from orbit distances, space nebulas, sky bodies colors and distances, cloud densities, biome modifiers, randomization and more
New Night-vision Material
Mod options for volumetric clouds settings, performance & more
Fixes and improvements from various biomes
Instant Action randomization for sun classes and planet orbits

If you encounter anything off, please drop a screenshot (always;) and feedback in the Discord channel ⁠#vonbiomes17-beta - thank you! Also, regular screenshots are (highly) welcome in ⁠#screenshots .. Let's rock this beast!
❗ As usual, please be sure no mod is overriding vonBiomes (otherwise the whole feedback thing wont make much sense;) - Std. brightness setting in MW5 at 4 on my end