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About
- 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.
Notable differences
- 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.
Main features
- 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.
Important links
- Boosty (analogous to Patreon): [Clickable]
- Discord: [Clickable]
- GitHub: [Clickable]
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.
- Ember Host for sponsoring me! They are a modern Minecraft hosting provider with a variety of options for all your needs, be it a small server for your friends or a big one with lots of players. I also have a server there and it's really fast and stable! Use the code below for a 10% discount! :P
