Many water improvement ideas!

[pasithea2]

I was wondering if you could improve the water in these ways: Smoother waves. Water reflections? Clearer water. (Mabel using colormap or lighting?) Water has holes when falling (image)

[depressed-pho]

Please make separate issues next time :)

• Smoother waves: Yes I want to do it but since it needs a normal mapping it is currently infeasible due to a vanilla bug MCPE-40059.
• Water reflections: The true reflection is impossible because it needs separate render passes for non-water blocks and water. Sadly we can't alter the rendering pipeline unlike Java shaders. We could possibly do some kind of fake reflection like the one SEUS PE does (#10).
• Clearer water: We can indeed reduce the transparency of water, but we can not achieve a good looking water rendering just by that. In real life water has almost no color and has almost perfect transparency but you can still see water in a glass. Why? Because water in reality cause refraction. Java shaders do this but in Bedrock we can't because this also requires separate render passes and also access to surface normals.
• Water has holes when falling: Man, that's a vanilla bug :D

[gio1135]

I add a biomes_client that makes underwater clear every time I download this.