About
- Solas is a modern fantasy stylized Minecraft: Java Edition shaderpack aiming to provide stunning visuals at a moderate performance cost.
Unique Aspects
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Great performance with voxelization and floodfill block lighting. Light color of almost any emissive block can be changed in the config menu.
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Highly customizable 3D volumetric clouds with closed space leaking prevention and self-adjusting render distance.
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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.
Important links
- Boosty (analogous to Patreon): [Clickable]
- Discord: [Clickable]
- GitHub: [Clickable]
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
