Vanilla RTX v1.9.0 Release

Vanilla RTX's latest update brings the final refinements to bamboo blocks, revamps redstone & improves all polished/smooth blocks by making them more consistent & overall better-looking along with numerous improvements to other blocks.


Changelogs:

• Full redstone overhaul (e.g. redstone block, redstone parts on comparator, repeater, rails, redstone dust, redstone torch, observer etc... are all affected) Every block/item with redstone has been revamped
- The light that rails and other redstone components emit is now better matching vanilla game (e.g. light emitted by non-light-emitting blocks in Vanilla Minecraft is no longer considerable/is significantly weaker to match vanilla game)
- All non-active redstone blocks and items now passively emit a tiny amount of light (this is to make up for lack of consistency between redstone dust and other components, which has to emit light at all times)
- Reworked and unified all redstone MERs, new & improved materials (redstone is made of Uranium & Carbon, new materials are made to reflect this fact to some extent)
- Adjustments to lit redstone ore emissivity

• Bamboo Updates
- Improved bamboo planks, bamboo block, stripped bamboo block, bamboo fence & fence gate heightmaps
- Fixed edges on bamboo fence, fence gate & stem heightmaps.
- Updated bamboo block and stripped bamboo block top textures to match latest betas & made necessary adjustments

• Polished & Smooth block changes
- Updated all polished blackstone blocks to fully match each other (Polished black stone bricks, cracked variant, polished blackstone and chiseled blackstone) all now use consistent materials.
- Improved cracked polished blackstone bricks heightmap
- Adjustments to chiseled deepslate and polished deepslate MERs, better detail
- Updated smooth stone MERs (now the same between Vanilla RTX & Vanilla RTX Normals) much more detailed & more consistent with deepslate smooth stone
- Improved detail of smooth granite, andesite and diorite.

• Updated Rails
- Redstone parts are now fully consistent with redstone
- Stone part on rail detector now matches stone
- Updated golden parts to fully match gold block
- Updated iron parts to fully match other iron blocks
- Wooden parts now match other woods

• Updated dead bush to better match other woods
• Updated iron bars to better match other iron blocks
• Adjustments to Netherbrick blocks MERs (Netherbrick, Cracked Netherbrick, Red Netherbrick and Chiseled Netherbrick, smoother MERs/less contrast)
• Updated all blackstone and gilded blackstone PBR maps to match their newer texture, improved MERs to better fit in with the rest of blackstone blocks
• Revamped fletcher table, new MERs to fully match birch planks, new heightmaps & normal maps
• Revamped cartography table, more detailed & consistent MERs (for instance: iron parts on compass and gold parts are now consistent with their respective materials), new normal maps & improved heightmaps.
• Revamped Loom, new detailed MERs, new hand painted normal maps & new heightmaps
• Updated wooden parts on smithing table to better match mangrove planks
- Corrected smithing table bottom, metal parts now appear metallic

• Revamped Seagrass and Kelp (foliage)
• Updated beacon emissivity, now much more subtle
• Updated target block MERs
• Updated chiseled bookshelf texture names to match latest beta (Known issue: books textures do not display correctly, this is half-fixed in an upcoming Minecraft RTX Fix Pack update)
• Fog Changes
- New water fog in mangrove biome which is much closer to vanilla water colors
- Other adjustments to mangrove air fog

• Minor adjustments to glazed terracotta
• Basalt Updates
- Smooth Basalt, Polished basalt and regular basalt now use consistent & improved MERs
- Reworked normal maps & improved heightmaps for all basalt blocks.

• Updated icons (Vanilla RTX Normals icon is now made using Vanilla RTX Normals)

Notes:
This update touches many things that desperately needed an update for a long time to be up to my standards.
Future updates will likely focus more on bringing support for new content rather than improvements.