Solas is a new Minecraft Java Edition shaderpack which aims to provide stunning visuals at a low performance cost. It was originally intended to serve as Prismarine Shader's successor.
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Solas is probably the first shaderpack to finally achieve the goal of super fast and FPS-cheap colored lighting and global illumination in Minecraft. Both are done with bloom which costs little performance while maintaining good visual appearance.
Most other shaderpacks with 3D volumetric clouds have a problem of them leaking into closed spaces like caves or mountains. Solas fixes that problem by toggling a cloud shadow check in cases where a closed space is detected, thus essentially turning volumetric clouds into volumetric light.
Another problem a lot of shaderpacks have is shadow light leaking and peter panning which is not present in Solas.
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3D volumetric clouds and light rays.
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Water, atmospheric and border fog.
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Fast colored lighting and global illumination.
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Fancy sky effects: aurora borealis, Milky Way, ender nebula, ender vortex and more.
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Cinematic post effects: bloom, chromatic aberration, depth of field, adjustable and flexible tonemap, TAA, FXAA.
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Integrated PBR resourcepack with custom emissive and reflective blocks.
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Advanced lighting model: vanilla & custom ambient occlusion, variable penumbra shadows.
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