Solas Shader

Solas is a modern fantasy stylized Minecraft: Java Edition shaderpack aiming to provide stunning visuals at a moderate performance cost. Screenshots showcasing the shader's visual style and general look can be found in the "Gallery" section.

Mod-compatible, customizable and performant multicolored block lighting with fog illumination.
Configurable planar and volumetric clouds with closed space leaking prevention and variable render distance.
Shadows with light leaking prevention, minimized Peter-Panning and variable penumbra.

Fancy volumetrics: 3D clouds, fog, fireflies, etc.
Beautiful atmospherics: Aurora, Milky Way, Ender Nebula and Black Hole, rainbows, etc.
Cinematic effects: bloom, chromatic aberration, depth of field, tilt-shift, TAA, FXAA, etc.
Advanced lighting: cloud shadows, crepuscular rays, global illumination, ambient occlusion, etc.
Realistic water: procedural waves, caustics, light absorption and refraction.
Integrated PBR resourcepack with emissive textures, specular and normal mapping.
LabPBR and SeusPBR resourcepacks support.
Many settings on different languages.
Distant Horizons support.

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.
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