Showcase

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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. Please check the "Gallery" section to see some screenshots showcasing the shader's visual style and general look.

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What makes it special

• Highly customizable and performant multicolored block lighting with light contribution to fog.
• Customizable planar 2D and volumetric 3D clouds with closed space leaking prevention and self-adjusting render distance.
• Shadows with light leaking prevention, minimized Peter-Panning and optional VPS/PCSS filtering.

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Main features

• Many settings translated to different languages.
• Fancy volumetrics: 3D ray marched clouds, fog, fireflies, etc.
• Beautiful sky effects: rainbows, Aurora Borealis, Milky Way, Ender nebula, Ender black hole, etc.
• Cinematic post effects: bloom, chromatic aberration, depth of field, distant blur, TAA, FXAA, etc.
• Advanced lighting model: cloud shadows, crepuscular rays, ambient occlusion, etc.
• Realistic water with 3D waves, caustics, light absorption and refraction.
• Integrated PBR resourcepack with autogenerated texture emission, specular and normal mapping.
• LabPBR and SeusPBR resourcepacks support.
• Distant Horizons support.

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Important links

• Boosty (analogous to Patreon): [Clickable]
• Discord: [Clickable]
• GitHub: [Clickable]

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Credits

• SixthSurge for VX LPV algorithm.
• EminGT and gri573 for improved shadow sampling.
• Capt Tatsu for TAA, FXAA and a few other pieces of BSL's code.
• Community members who have contributed to Solas in various 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