photon

A gameplay-focused shader pack for Minecraft

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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

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Photon can be used with Iris (recommended) or OptiFine
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
Once you have your preferred shader loader installed, simply place the downloaded zip file in your .minecraft/shaderpacks folder

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

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)

by iambeen

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