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Solas Shader

Solas Shader

Showcase

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About

+ Solas is a fantasy stylized shaderpack aiming to provide stunning visuals at a moderate performance cost. Screenshots showcasing the shader can be found in the Gallery section.

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Important links

+ Discord / Boosty / GitHub / Solas Website

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Main features

+ Advanced lighting

- Colored block lighting

- Realtime shadows without light leaking in caves

- Cloud shadows

- Subsurface scattering on certain blocks

+ High quality volumetrics

- 3D Clouds, crepuscular rays, fireflies, Nether smoke, Ender protoplanetary disk

+ Beautiful sky effects

- Aurora, Milky Way, Ender Nebula and Black Hole, rainbows

+ Customizable post-processing

- Fine-tuned tonemapping, bloom, lens flare, chromatic aberration, depth of field, motion blur, tilt-shift

+ Realistic water

- Procedural waves, caustics, light absorption and refraction

+ Integrated PBR resourcepack

- Emissive textures, reflective materials and procedurally generated normals

+ PBR resourcepacks support

- Both LabPBR and OldPBR/SeusPBR formats are supported

- Turn on "PBR Resourcepack" in shader settings!

+ Mod compatibility

- Voxy

- Distant Horizons

- Iris Shaders (Preferred loader)

- OptiFine (Custom skyboxes and colored block lighting are not supported)

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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.

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