Solas Shader

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About

• Solas is a fantasy stylized shaderpack aiming to provide stunning visuals at a moderate performance cost. Screenshots showcasing the shader can be found in the Gallery section.

Important links

• Discord / Boosty / GitHub / Solas Website

  

Main features

• Advanced lighting
  • Colored block lighting
  • Realtime shadows without light leaking in caves
  • Cloud shadows
  • Subsurface scattering on certain blocks
• High quality volumetrics
  • 3D Clouds, crepuscular rays, fireflies, Nether smoke, Ender protoplanetary disk
• Beautiful sky effects
  • Aurora, Milky Way, Ender Nebula and Black Hole, rainbows
• Customizable post-processing
  • Fine-tuned tonemapping, bloom, lens flare, chromatic aberration, depth of field, motion blur, tilt-shift
• Realistic water
  • Procedural waves, caustics, light absorption and refraction
• Integrated PBR resourcepack
  • Emissive textures, reflective materials and procedurally generated normals
• PBR resourcepacks support
  • Both LabPBR and OldPBR/SeusPBR formats are supported
  • Turn on "PBR Resourcepack" in shader settings!
• Mod compatibility
  • Voxy
  • Distant Horizons
  • Iris Shaders (Preferred loader)
  • OptiFine (Custom skyboxes and colored block lighting are not supported)

Credits

• EminGT and gri573 for improved shadow sampling.
• SixthSurge for voxelization & light propagation algorithm.
• Capt Tatsu for antialiasing and a few other pieces of BSL's code.
• Community members for contributing to Solas in different ways.