DrDestens MinecraftShaders

DrDestens MinecraftShaders is a shaderpack for Minecraft: Java Edition. It features water effects with reflections, ambient occlusion, bloom, realistic depth of field, motion blur, TAA and many other things. The shaderpack supports the LabPBR and OldPBR/SeusPBR standard, and you can use it with PBR texturepacks for added detail

Feature Overview

• Screen Space Reflections
• Depth of Field
• Screen Space Ambient Occlusion (SSAO)
• Temporal Anti-Aliasing (TAA)
• Physically Based Rendering
• Various Water Effects
• Godrays
• Bloom
• Motion Blur
  • Realistic DoF Chromatic Aberration
• Custom sky gradient
• Improved Fog with Sunsets
• Improved Dynamic Lighting
• Directional Lightmaps
• Outline
• Custom Block Selection Outline
• Basic Color Grading

Full Feature List

Depth Of Field

• Depth of Field
   Blurs non-focused objects, like a real camera
• Bokeh Samples
   Quality of the blur
   Higher is better
   Significantly affects performance
• DoF Intensity
   Intensity of the Depth of Field effect
   Low performance impact
• Maximum Blur - High, Unlimited
   Limits the strength of the DoF blur
   Helps reduce artifacts when using lower sample counts and is better for gameplay
• DoF Downsampling Amount
   Amount of Downsampling that takes place for the Depth of Field effect
   Reduces DoF artifacts, increases pixelation artifacts
   No/Low performance impact
• Far Blur Only
   Only blurs far away things
• Sample Rejection
   Improved DoF Quality by (mostly) removing color bleeding
   Can have a significant performance impact
• Focus Delay
   Sets how long the focus takes to adjust

Reflections

• Reflection Mode - OFF, Sky, Flipped Image, Raytraced
• Raytracing Quality
   Number of raytracing iterations
   Lower is faster
• Thickness Estimation Modifier - Infinite
   Increase this if the reflection blind spots annoy you
   Influences assumption about how thick a pixel is
   No performance impact
• Fade Edges - OFF, Vertical, Full
• Reflection Threshold
   PBR only
   Sets the minimum required reflectiveness in order for SSR to enable
   Higher values may introduce reflection cutoffs
• Screen Space Refraction
   Distorts things seen through water
• Refraction Strength
• Glass Reflections
   Adds reflections to tinted glass blocks

Water

• Waving Water
   "Physical" Waves
   Moves the water surface
• Wave Height
• Wave Normals - OFF, Noise, Sine
• Normals Strength
   Fake Waves, pretending to be real ones
   Added detail
• Normals Scale
• Water Absorption Density
• Water Absorption Bias
   Adds a constant to the water fog distance
   Can help in making water more visible
• Water Texture
   Enables the vanilla water texture
• Water Color Options
  • Water Absorption (RGB Color Picker)
  • Absorption Color Multiplier

Physically Based Rendering

• PBR Format - LabPBR 1.3, SeusPBR / OldPBR
• Resource Pack Resolution
• PBR
   Enables Physically Based Rendering
   Make sure you enable Normal and Specular mapsm in the OptiFine shader options
• PBR Blend
   In order to stay closer to minecraft vanilla rendering, my shader blends between PBR and vanilla rendering
   If you increase this value, the PBR effect will be stronger
• Height as AO
   Uses the Height information for Ambient occlusion
• Normal Mapping Fix
   With newer OptiFine versions this might not be necessary
   Enable this if normal maps do not show on entities or handheld objects
• Use Hardcoded Metals
   If disabled, the shader will use the color for the reflectance data
   LabPBR only
• Subsurface Scattering
• Parallax Occlusion Mapping
   Adds additional detail to blocks using the height map
   Low performance impact
   Can create artifacts at screen borders
• POM Options
  • POM Depth
     Specifies how deep the POM goes
     Higher values will create artifacts
  • POM Distortion
     Exaggerates the height map
     Helps create more depth with small POM Depth values
     Creates artifacts when used with high POM Depth values
  • Smooth POM
     Smooths out the height map
     Significantly reduces artifacts
• Ambient light multiplier

Camera and Tonemapping

• Exposure
• Tonemapping - Custom Reinhard, Unreal
• Contrast
• Vibrance
• Saturation
• Brightness
• Vignette - OFF, Round, Square
   Darkens screen borders
• Vignette Strength
• Chromatic Aberration - OFF
   Color Diffraction

Post Processing

• Temporal Anti-Aliasing
   Smooths edges at the cost of a slightly blurrier image
   Might cause problems with OptiFine's high-res screenshot feature
• TAA Options
  • TAA Blending Constant
     Controls the opacity of the current frame
     Set this value lower for smoother TAA
  • TAA Sharpening
     Changes the strength of the sharpening effect
• Bloom
   Creates a glow around bright objects
   Looks nice ;)
• Bloom Strength
• Motion Blur
• Motion Blur Intensity
• SSAO
   Screen Space Ambient Occlusion
   Makes cavities dark
   High performance impact
• SSAO Quality - Low, Medium, High
• SSAO Strength

Atmospherics

• Fog - OFF, Normal, Border
• Fog Amount
• Morning Fog
   Increases fog amount during sunsets
   Only works with fog in "Normal" mode
   Requires fog and sunsets to be enabled
• Morning Fog Strength
• Cave Fog
• Cave Fog Brightness
• Godrays
• Godray Colors
  • Godray Sun (RGB Color Picker)
  • Godray Moon (RGB Color Picker)
• Godray Strength
• Godray Radius
• Godray Samples
• Sky Colors
  • Sky Noon (RGB Color Picker)
  • Sky Sunset (RGB Color Picker)
  • Sky Midnight (RGB Color Picker)
  • End Sky Upper (RGB Color Picker)
  • End Sky Lower (RGB Color Picker)
• Sun Angle

Weather

• Rain Detection - Temperature, Color
• Rain Opacity
• Rain Refraction
• Rain Refraction Strength

Other Stuff

• Outline - OFF, White, Black, Rainbow
• Outline Distance
• Block Selection Outline - Black, White, Rainbow
   Only works with newer OptiFine versions (G7 or higher)
• Block Selection Outline Opacity
• Wavy Blocks
• Wavy Leaves
• World Curvature
• World Radius
• Hand Invisibility Effect
   Distorts handheld objects when invisible
• White World
• Directional Lightmaps
   Applies normal mapping to dynamic lights
   Requires a ressource pack with PBR support
• Directional Lightmap Strength
• Dynamic Light Brightness
   Changes the brightness of light from emissive blocks

Optimisation

• Flat Vertices
   Disable when using custom models with smooth surfaces

Agreement

You are allowed to

• Use my shaderpack in your videos / screenshots

You are not allowed to

• Redistribute my shaderpack: If you want to provide a download link you must link to my Modrinth / Curseforge page
• Use monetized URL shorteners linking to downloads of my shaderpack
• Publish edits of my shaderpack without my permission

FAQ

Will you add shadows?

No, I won't. Shadows are performance intensive and will decrease the performace of my shader significantly.

Parts of the shader are glitchy / there are errors in chat

My shader does not support Intel Macs at all. M1 Macs will break some features, and that is something I can't fix. You can try disabling the features that cause problems.

What now?

If none of these things apply to you: please create an issue describing your problem or join my Discord and describe your problem there. These things apply to you, but you still want to use my shader? I am unable to properly debug these issues, so I won't be able to fix them. If you are fine going without the features that break, disable them. If you can't disable them, contact me and I can probably add an option for that.

Performace is bad

Select the "Low" Profile in the options.
Try to disable these features: PBR, Godrays, DoF