Solas Shader

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Solas is a modern fantasy stylized Minecraft: Java Edition shaderpack aiming to provide stunning visuals at a moderate performance cost. Please check the "Gallery" section to see some screenshots showcasing the shader's visual style and general look.

Unique Aspects

Great performance with voxelization and floodfill block lighting. Light color of almost any emissive block can be changed in the config menu.
Highly customizable 3D volumetric clouds with closed space leaking prevention and self-adjusting render distance.
Advanced shadows with light leaking prevention, minimized Peter-Panning and optional VPS/PCSS filtering.

Main Features

Volumetric clouds, godrays, cloudy Nether & End fog.
Fancy underwater, atmospheric and border fog.
Water light absorption and refraction.
Multicolored block lighting with contribution to ray marched fog.
Various sky effects: Aurora Borealis, Milky Way, Ender Nebula, Ender Black Hole and more.
Cinematic post effects: bloom, chromatic aberration, depth of field, distant blur, TAA, FXAA.
Advanced lighting effects: ambient occlusion, variable penumbra shadows and specular highlights.
Integrated PBR resourcepack with autogenerated specular mapping, normals and emission.
Support for LabPBR and SeusPBR resourcepacks.
Many customizable options with their proper translations to different languages.
Distant Horizons support.

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Credits

SixthSurge for VX LPV algorithm
EminGT and gri573 for improved shadow sampling
Capt Tatsu for TAA, FXAA and a few other pieces of BSL's code
Community members who have contributed to Solas in various ways
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