photon

A gameplay-focused shader pack for Minecraft

acknowledgments

• 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

features

• Custom shading with variable penumbra shadows and ambient occlusion
• Colored lighting using flood-fill algorithm (enabled with Ultra profile, requires Iris)
• Custom sky with multiple volumetric cloud layers and different weather each day
• Camera effects - bloom, depth-of-field, motion-blur
• Full labPBR resource pack support
• Revamped water
• Screen-space reflections
• Volumetric lighting
• Much improved image quality thanks to TAA, FXAA and CAS
• Advanced temporal upscaling (disabled by default) for low end devices

showcase videos

by iambeen

by CosmicNexus

by VIPUL

community

Want to discuss the shaderpack? Questions? Head over to our discord channel #photon-sixthsurge in the ShaderLABS Discord.