photon
A gameplay-focused shader pack for Minecraft
acknowledgments
- Emin - Shadow bias method from Complementary Reimagined (fully fixes peter panning and light leaking underground!)
- DrDesten - Depth tolerance calculation for SSR (helps to prevent false reflections)
- Jessie - f0 and f82 values for labPBR hardcoded metals
- Sledgehammer Games - Bloom downsampling method used in Call of Duty Advanced Warfare (described here)
- http://momentsingraphics.de/ - Blue noise texture
- NakiriRuri and OrzMiku - Chinese settings translation
installation
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Download on Modrinth (recommended)
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Iris is a modern shader loader with far better performance, mod compatibility and developer features than OptiFine. Some features (Colored Lighting) will only work on Iris
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Once you have your preferred shader loader installed, simply place the downloaded zip file in your
.minecraft/shaderpacksfolder
features
- Fully revamped sky, lighting and water with a cohesive visual style
- Immersive weather system with different skies each day, featuring multiple volumetric cloud layers
- Colored lighting using a voxel flood-fill algorithm (enabled with Ultra profile, requires Iris)
- Full labPBR resource pack support
- Extensive settings menu allowing you to customize every aspect of the shader
- Screen-space reflections
- Volumetric lighting
- Soft shadows with variable penumbra size
- High quality ambient occlusion (GTAO)
- Camera effects: bloom, depth of field, motion blur
- Much improved image quality with TAA, FXAA and CAS
- Advanced temporal upscaling (disabled by default) for low end devices
compatibility
- Nvidia, AMD and Intel GPUs
- Iris - version 1.5 and above
- OptiFine - on Minecraft 1.16.5 and above
- Photon is also compatible with Distant Horizons (as of writing this requires a special version of Iris and Distant Horizons which is available in the Iris installer)
showcase videos
by iambeen
by CosmicNexus
by VIPUL
community
For questions, suggestions and news regarding this shader pack, head to my discord server