Patch Notes Page 57

v0.0.933

Tuned snowy weather flake size.
Snow keeps the slower round-flake behavior, but the flakes now render slightly larger for better visibility.

Refined snowy weather readability.
Snow now falls as slower tiny round flakes with subtle size variation instead of short streak lines.

Finished the soft cloud shadow edge fix in the batch utility.
Soft cloud exports now enforce a left/right alpha fade at the canvas border after the feather pass, preventing any remaining nonzero pixels from ending abruptly on the sprite edge.

Fixed soft cloud shadow edge clipping in the batch utility.
Soft variants now feather inside a padded temporary mask before being cropped back to the original sprite size, which prevents the blur from ending abruptly at the image border.

Refined the cloud-shadow batch utility output.
Exact and soft shadow variants now default to a much fainter transparency so the exported sprites read like projected ground shadows instead of solid black cutouts.
Soft shadow generation now feathers only the cloud silhouette edges with a small high-resolution blur pass, which keeps the core shape intact and avoids the earlier blocky full-image blur on tiny sprites.

Added a cloud-shadow sprite batch generator utility.
scripts/make_cloud_shadows.py now converts cloud PNG alpha silhouettes into flat exact shadows, softly blurred shadow variants, and a combined preview sheet with optional zip export.
Added scripts/README.md with the Pillow dependency and command-line usage examples for batch generation from source art repository.

Replaced procedural cloud blobs with seeded cloud sprites.
Outdoor cloud shadows now use the authored transparent PNGs from assets/Sprites/Clouds/exact and assets/Sprites/Clouds/soft, rendered 1:1 with deterministic left-to-right placement and speed.
data/lighting.json now includes a cloudShadows.spriteStyle toggle plus weather-driven cloud frequency/spacing/speed multipliers so rain always drives denser, faster clouds than clear weather while snow stays slower.

Added a top-layer cloud debug overlay.
When cloudShadows.debugOutline is enabled, cloud bounds now also render as bright overlay boxes above the world so it is obvious whether clouds are being generated but hidden by later layers.
Repacked packaged client output.wpk` and refreshed the client lighting config so cloud-atmosphere tuning matches the latest build.