Soften caustic light rays for a more natural underwater look

[Loyale]

Summary

Make the god rays read as filtered sunlight rather than stage lights — softer, more physics-aware blends with the surrounding water.

• Lower max alpha (~0.20 → ~0.09). The rays are now only a few percent brighter than the water around them.
• Highlight color shifted toward the water hue. Replaces near-white cyan with a blue-green close to the upper water color, so the rays look like light that has already passed through tens of meters of water.
• Multi-stop falloff per ray (bright → mid → faint → transparent) so edges blend instead of snapping off.
• Slight color variation by ray type: sharp beams a touch more cyan, broad diffuse columns cooler and dimmer, surface ambient haze cooler still — a loose nod to wavelength-dependent attenuation (red attenuates first; blue-green persists deepest).
• Wider broad diffuse columns (12–16% vs 7–11%) and a wider multi-stop surface haze (90% wide) so the empty stretches read as scattered ambient rather than gaps.

Test plan

• Hard-refresh and confirm the rays look notably softer and more diffuse — no harsh bright edges against the dark water
• Confirm the rays still vary irregularly in width, depth, and position from the previous round
• Confirm the overall water column still feels appropriately deep and dark
• Confirm article cards and code blocks still have enough contrast against the background

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