Photon Shaders

A gameplay-focused shader pack with a semi-realistic style

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Photon Shaders

Community

* Join my discord server for questions, suggestions and development updates * You can also donate if you would like to say thanks

Frequently asked questions

1. "When will Photon be released for new Minecraft version?" - Shader packs are generally not very dependent on MC versions; as long as Iris is available, Photon should just work.

Features

* Fully revamped sky, lighting and water * Detailed clouds with several layers and many different cloud types * Immersive weather system providing different skies each day * Voxel-based colored lighting (enabled with Ultra profile, requires Iris) * Screen-space reflections * Volumetric fog * Soft shadows with variable-size penumbras * Detailed 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 * Extensive settings menu allowing you to customize every aspect of the shader * Full labPBR resource pack support

Compatibility

Shader loaders

* Iris (recommended) * 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 * OptiFine

GPU vendors

* Nvidia * AMD * Intel * NOT compatible with Apple GPUs (Metal)

Mods

* Voxy * Distant Horizons

Showcase videos

Acknowledgments

* Settings menu translations: * NakiriRuri and OrzMiku (Chinese) * Jmayk (Italian) * Timtaran (Russian) * 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 * NASA Scientific Visualization Studio - Galaxy image

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