Spring Shaders Legacy

About

Spring Shaders Legacy is the original Spring v1 shader pack. It features soft, natural colors and a fresh visual style, aiming to create a peaceful, harmonious atmosphere and bring a lively world to your game.

Features

Lighting

• PCSS soft shadows.
• Reflective Shadow Map (RSM) global illumination.
• Screen-space ambient occlusion (SSAO).

Sky and Atmosphere

• Single-scattering sky rendering.
• Single-scattering volumetric lighting.
• Volumetric clouds.

Water

• Water fog and caustics.
• Refraction and water reflections.
• Underwater effects.

Other Effects

• Temporal anti-aliasing (TAA).
• Anisotropic filtering.
• Bloom.
• Parallax mapping support.

Specular textures are not supported.

Some of the screenshots use the SPBR resource pack.

Performance

Performance is comparable to SEUS v11.0. The original test results, using a render distance of 12 chunks, were:

• GTX 1650 at 1080p: approximately 50 FPS.
• RTX 4070 Ti at 1440p: approximately 160 FPS.

Development Background

I created this shader pack as a practice project while studying GAMES101: Introduction to Modern Computer Graphics. It is my first shader pack, which I decided to share with the community.