/photon

A gameplay-focused shader pack for Minecraft

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photon

A gameplay-focused shader pack for Minecraft

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acknowledgments

installation

  • Download on Modrinth (recommended)

  • Download latest commit

  • 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

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