Vanilla RTX Normals' third major revision for 1.21 is here to complete support for all of the new 1.21 content, ominous trial chambers blocks as well as new functional animated materials and a ton of other improvements!

• Added full support for Ominous Trial Spawner and Ominous Vault block.

• Updated non-ominous vault block and trial spawners according to their texture updates in Minecraft Preview 1.21.23.0
- Also fixed trial spawner active state being unsupported in latest Minecraft Preview.

• Updated smoker, revamped normal maps, and added proper animated emissivity for its burning animation with better materials for consistency with other wood and stone.

• Quartz Normal Map Revamp
Most notably, quartz and smooth quartz will no longer appear curved/convex, this is to allow smooth quartz to form seamless tiles (like its vanilla texture!) while keeping a consistent normal style for quartz. Also corrected quartz bricks and chiseled quartz normal maps.

• Fixed dropper top horizontal incorrectly using dropper top vertical MER (and the other way around).

• Added a cached texture and files list, this could potentially improve load times or help prevent an issue where textures aren't fully loaded or lost, which has happened in the past likely because of large number of files in Vanilla RTX. (This change will be reverted if it proves unnecessary)

• Animated Material Update!
Not long ago animated textures were fixed in Minecraft, prior to this, PBR textures were based on an average of all stages of a given animated texture, this allowed it to approximately look good throughout all stages of an animated texture.
This update comes with proper animated textures for many animated blocks.
(Known issue: this bug persists with sculk catalyst blooming state and sculk shrieker)
For emissive blocks, this usually results in improved vibrancy & allows true texture colors to be preserved throughout the animation, or in other words less washed out colors.

- Magma block
- Blast Furnace
- Sea Lantern (Also updated materials to better match other prismarine blocks)
- Portal and Respawn Anchor Top Portal
- Lantern and Soul Lantern (Also nerfed overall brightness of soul lantern)
- Cauldron water, also changed to a new material that closely matches regular water (Known issue: non-colored water in cauldron does not have a material)
- Sculk Tendrils, also updated normal maps
- Sculk Veins, materials now appear more consistent with other sculk blocks.
- Sculk
- Sculk Shrieker Top
- Rough Prismarine
- Crimson and Warped log
- All variations of Command blocks
- Campfire and Soul Campfire base
- Chemical Heat block in Education Edition

• Reworked Ancient Debris, new handmade normal maps and redefined materials.

• Reworked Netherite block, redefined materials, new normal map.

• Updated Iron block and Lapis block normal maps to be in-line with appearance of similar blocks (i.e. gold block, copper block, etc...)

• Updated mossy stonebrick and stonebrick normal maps with better defined cracks and mossy parts

• Adjusted default fog settings to be closer to default Minecraft RTX sky colors (i.e reduced the subtle green/cyan color of sky horizon in some biomes), removed blue tint.

These changes are only meant to get things in a better state for the time being, until I have the chance to over everything thoroughly.

• Other adjustments
- Redstone Comparator and Repeater active states are now overall dimmer so they may no longer be functional as light source (vanilla light level is 0)
- Decreased intensity of all types of planks normal maps and corrected some angles
- Uniformly increased lava emissive intensity, increased lava normal map intensity.
- Adjusted redstone, regular and soul torch texture brightness (redstone and soul nerfed, regular torch slight buff)
- Nerfed all passive redstone materials emissivity, with less contrasting colors
- Maximized portal transparency (further reduction of opacity will result in issues with screen overlay animation of portal)
- Decreased cauldron water opacity
- Adjusted all gold blocks and white irons, now possessing slightly more metallic characteristics (i.e. iron doors, block, gold parts on rails, gold block, gold parts on chiseled bookshelf, all gold ores, etc...)
This also makes white irons more distinct from grey irons, where grey irons now appear slightly less metallic and more rough overall, while retaining the same detail and style as white irons.

• Updated pack icon!

▣ New Experimental Updates & Changes in v1.21.30:
(Features below require switching to experimental option within Vanilla RTX or Vanilla RTX Normals through resource pack's settings)

• Fixed blocks in Command Block Minecart and TNT Minecarts being unaffected by ray tracing, blocks in minecarts have been faithfully remodeled.


• Fixed Iron Golem damaged stages not displaying with ray tracing, instead each cracked stage now displays its own complete texture, this will eliminate the issue with overlays and should remain visually the same as vanilla Minecraft.

• Fixed invisible Breeze mob when using experimental option in Minecraft 1.21 non-preview release.
• Improved the workaround fix for Breeze wind
- Inner layers are can now be visible (previously only the outermost wind layer was displayed)
Breeze wind appears more transparent with ray tracing to better match vanilla game
Known issues:
- Brightness of breeze is affected by vanilla light level, and not ray traced lighting, brighter
environments also make breeze wind appear more opaque.
- Inner layers do not display when seen through the outer layers.

• Swapped sun and moon paths, sun now maintains a positive offset, reduced maximum offset to 30 degrees and further improved smoothness of the transitions.

• Moved away Slime mob texture and End Portal adjustments from the default Vanilla RTX experience, they are now available only under Experimental option.