Complementary Shaders
About:
Complementary is a Minecraft Java Edition shader pack based on Capt Tatsu's "BSL Shaders". The goal of Complementary is being good at everything. Performance, gameplay, beauty, compatibility; you name it. Complementary will try to provide you the most issueless experience possible within the limitations of Optifine's shader pipeline. It runs reasonably fast, supports almost every GPU and driver, works well with mods that no one thought a shader pack could be compatible with, fixes problems that no other shader packs adressed before, doesn't disturb you with excessive effects, and most importantly, it looks good according to the users. If you're wondering about what's changed over BSL, you can check out the complete changelog from BSL to Complementary here: https://justpaste.it/2z91q
Frequently Asked Questions:
- Question 1: I'm having problems with mods, what should I do?
Answer: Please check out the known mod issue fixes: https://justpaste.it/60cgu
- Question 2: The sky looks wrong, what should I do?
Answer: Go to "Options" -> "Video Settings" -> "Details" and enable the "Sky".
- Question 3: Does this shaderpack have ray tracing?
Answer: Light shafts and reflections are ray traced.
For help, questions, suggestions, early access, and more: 
these shaders broke my other shaders... you guys got any recommendations on what to do?
guau el shader tiene una opcion para tener pbr en cualquier textra y se adapta
My favorite shader!
Having issues where the End skybox is pure white when it should have the Ender Nebula. version 17.1 with optifine. toggling the sky option in video settings only turns it from off-white to super white. Still happens when reset to default settings.
In reply to quadrupedal_pink_equine:
Update your Optifine to the latest one for 1.17.1
My favorite shader thus far, the default look is amazing but its so customisable
Also how do I save a profile?
In reply to princefl:
There isn't a specific profile saving functionality in Optifine. It just saves what you currently have. You can copy your current profile to use later though. The current profile is always located in the shaderpacks folder as a text file, unless you are using the default profile which won't have a text file.
In reply to princefl:
in shader file copy paste the complimentary shaders.txt and rename it. just switch to which ever you want (need to have same name as the shader in use or it will just generate a new file)
Just download your shaders, and the day-night cycle don't work.
Neither version 1.12.2 nor 1.17.1
Default settings are active.
Wich turn on the day-night cycle?
Other Shaders work just fine.
In reply to neoelfe0:
It's either because of time-changing mods or you have a multiple-years-old version of Optifine
This is my FAVORITE SHADER! 10/10 USE IT.
In reply to consume_pant_pls:
I'm glad you like it!
Using the Conquest Resource Pack with this shader, some animal models and texture are all glitched, any idea what's the cause? Thanks!
In reply to saiba_ranya:
Optifine shuffles up the vertex format when shaders actually use the entity program. Not much I can do about it, but I heard that the resource pack developer can fix it with moderate effort
Hi, out of nowhere I was getting low fps and after going through all the settings the "real-time shadows" setting was causing it, but the thing is I always had it on and never changed a thing? it appears to be increasing my cpu usage a lot compared to having it off, but still not maxing out any cores which only makes it even more confusing, is this setting supposed to use the cpu for the calculations?
I play with a capped fps and last week when testing the shader I could fly around through all biomes types at full speed in creative without my fps changing on the "extreme" preset, now I can't even hit that fps cap at all? like wtf has happened :/
I'm no noob when it comes to this stuff so theres definitely no pc related issues, weird settings etc that could be causing this, I'm just so baffled
In reply to winging__it:
The latest release of OF appears to have issues, at least for me.
In reply to winging__it:
Performance in Minecraft is such a complex topic that we might never know the reason to why you lost a ton of frames when seemingly nothing changed. But I can say that real-time shadows causing a massive fps drop and massive increase in cpu usage is normal. Shadow mapping is the slowest thing in almost all shaderpacks
Is there any way to increase the cloud quality? they look a little rough...
In reply to yablu6:
Do you mean noisy? You just need to not change anti-aliasing and keep it at the default mode.
In reply to EminGTR:
No, they're just not very realistic, as in I can see noise patterns, the same issue is observed in the water normals.
And on the topic of water, the customizability isn't bad, but when there's no explanations to anything, it's hard to make things the way you want, Noise 1 and Noise 2 don't make any sense to me
And one last thing, would there be any way to make the sun and moon reflect as circles on the water rather than just large amounts of light coming from that direction?