Light-Shadow

# Light and Shadow

The name says it all: Light and Shadow focuses on the two elements that shape every Minecraft scene — light and darkness.

This shader improves lighting from blocks and the sky, while adding stronger shadow effects through shadow maps, global illumination, and ambient occlusion. The goal is to make Minecraft scenes feel deeper, more atmospheric, and more visually dynamic without losing the familiar look of the game.

## Features

– Enhanced block lighting
– Improved sky lighting
– Shadow-map based shadows
– Global illumination effects
– GI-based shadowing and occlusion
– Ambient occlusion
– LabPBR normal mapping
– LabPBR ambient occlusion support
– Emissive materials support
– Atmospheric fog
– Depth of field
– Cinematic post-processing effects

Lechat’s shaders

# Lechat’s Shader Pack

A performance-focused Minecraft shader pack with multiple quality profiles, dynamic lighting, and customizable water effects. Designed for flexibility across a wide range of hardware configurations.

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## _Please note that the project is in beta version, graphics may not be what you expect, and some bugs can remain !_
Feel free to contact me on Discord (@lechat_v2) if you encounter any bugs !

## Overview

This shader pack delivers a balanced visual experience with five distinct performance profiles. From minimal-impact POTATO mode for low-end systems to feature-rich ULTRA mode for high-end setups, each profile is carefully tuned to provide optimal visuals without sacrificing playability.

Key highlights include profile-based fog and water systems, dynamic day/night lighting cycles, and extensive customization through the shaders.properties configuration file.

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## Features

### Technical Features

– **Multiple Performance Profiles**: Five preset configurations (POTATO, LOW, MEDIUM, HIGH, ULTRA) tailored to different hardware capabilities
– **Profile-Based Fog Settings**: Each profile has optimized fog parameters, with POTATO mode offering a clean no-fog aesthetic
– **Profile-Based Water Features**: Adjustable wave height and reflection intensity scaled per profile
– **Customizable Settings**: Fine-tune your experience via the shaders.properties configuration file
– **Optimized Codebase**: Fixed syntax errors and optimized lighting calculations for stable performance
– **Balanced Brightness**: Consistent lighting levels across all performance profiles

### Visual Features

– **Dynamic Lighting**: Realistic day/night cycles with smooth transitions
– **Water Effects**: Animated waves with adjustable height and reflective surfaces
– **Atmospheric Effects**: Configurable atmospheric scattering per profile
– **Underwater Rendering**: Fixed underwater view with improved visibility
– **Tone Mapping**: Realistic color grading for natural-looking scenes
– **Clean Aesthetic**: Bloom disabled intentionally for a crisp, uncluttered look

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## Performance Profiles

| Profile | Description | Best For |
|———|————-|———-|
| **POTATO** | Minimal effects, no fog, basic water, maximum performance | Low-end PCs, laptops, integrated graphics |
| **LOW** | Light effects, light fog, basic waves | Entry-level GPUs, older hardware |
| **MEDIUM** | Standard effects, moderate fog, standard waves | Mid-range systems, balanced performance |
| **HIGH** | Enhanced effects, normal fog, high waves with refraction | High-end GPUs, detailed visuals |
| **ULTRA** | Maximum effects, reduced fog for clarity, extreme waves, all features | Top-tier hardware, screenshot-quality visuals |

### Profile Details

**POTATO**
– Disabled fog for maximum visibility and performance
– Basic water rendering without wave animation
– Minimal post-processing overhead
– Ideal for achieving high frame rates on limited hardware

**LOW**
– Light atmospheric fog for depth
– Simple wave animations
– Reduced effect complexity
– Good balance for budget GPUs

**MEDIUM**
– Standard atmospheric scattering
– Moderate wave height and reflection
– Full feature set at reduced intensity
– Recommended for most modern systems

**HIGH**
– Enhanced atmospheric effects
– High wave height with water refraction
– Improved reflection quality
– Suitable for dedicated gaming GPUs

**ULTRA**
– Maximum visual fidelity
– Reduced fog density for crystal-clear long-distance views
– Extreme wave height (2.0x) with full reflection intensity (1.0)
– All advanced features enabled
– Requires high-end graphics hardware

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## Water Effects

The shader pack features a sophisticated water rendering system with profile-scaled parameters:

### Wave Height Scaling
– **POTATO**: 0.5x (minimal animation)
– **LOW**: 0.6x (basic movement)
– **MEDIUM**: 1.0x (standard waves)
– **HIGH**: 1.5x (pronounced waves)
– **ULTRA**: 2.0x (extreme wave height)

### Reflection Intensity
– Adjustable from 0.3 (subtle) to 1.0 (maximum reflectivity)
– Profile-tuned for optimal visual balance
– Dynamic based on viewing angle and lighting conditions

### Additional Water Features
– **Underwater View Fixes**: Improved visibility and color correction when submerged
– **Smooth Transitions**: Seamless blending between above and below water
– **Surface Reflections**: Environment mapping for realistic water surfaces
– **Refraction Effects**: Light bending at water surfaces (HIGH and ULTRA profiles)

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## Installation

1. Download the shader pack ZIP file
2. Place the ZIP file in your Minecraft shaderpacks folder:
– Windows: `%appdata%/.minecraft/shaderpacks/`
– macOS: `~/Library/Application Support/minecraft/shaderpacks/`
– Linux: `~/.minecraft/shaderpacks/`
3. Launch Minecraft with OptiFine or Iris/Oculus installed
4. Navigate to **Options > Video Settings > Shaders**
5. Select the shader pack from the list
6. Click **Done** to apply

### Requirements

– Minecraft 1.16.5 or newer (recommended)
– OptiFine HD U G5 or newer, OR
– Iris Shaders / Oculus (for Fabric/Forge mod loaders)
– OpenGL 4.0 compatible graphics card (minimum)

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## Configuration

### In-Game Settings

Access shader settings through:
**Options > Video Settings > Shaders > Shader Options**

Select your desired performance profile from the dropdown menu. Changes apply immediately without requiring a game restart.

### Advanced Configuration

For advanced users, edit the `shaders.properties` file located in the shader pack directory:

“`
shaderpacks/
Lechats-Shaders/
shaders/
shaders.properties <-- Edit this file ``` #### Key Configuration Options | Setting | Description | Range | |---------|-------------|-------| | `WAVE_HEIGHT` | Controls water wave amplitude | 0.5 - 2.0 | | `REFLECTION_INTENSITY` | Water surface reflectivity | 0.3 - 1.0 | | `FOG_DENSITY` | Atmospheric fog thickness | 0.0 - 1.0 | | `TONEMAP_TYPE` | Color grading algorithm | Various | ### Tips for Best Performance - Start with the **POTATO** or **LOW** profile and increase settings gradually - Monitor your frame rate using the F3 debug screen - Reduce render distance before lowering shader quality - Close background applications for improved performance - Update your graphics drivers to the latest version --- ## Troubleshooting **Low Frame Rates** - Switch to a lower performance profile - Reduce Minecraft render distance - Disable V-Sync in video settings **Visual Artifacts** - Ensure your graphics drivers are up to date - Try switching between OptiFine and Iris/Oculus - Reset shader settings to defaults **Water Not Rendering Correctly** - Verify you are using a compatible Minecraft version - Check that your GPU supports the required OpenGL version - Try resetting the shader pack configuration --- ## License This shader pack is provided as-is for personal use in Minecraft. Redistribution or modification should respect the original licensing terms of any included code libraries.

LBR-Enhanced

## About
A Shaderpack focused on enhancing vanilla.
Uses a stylized lighting model that blends vanilla lighting with dynamic shadows.

This pack is still in development, I will most likely rewrite most features in it, and add more.
It currently has no Options, Weather or Clouds, and the nether and end are not tested.

## Features
– A Stylised lighting model that improves vanilla without changing too much.
– Pixel Perfect PBR Lighting and Dynamic Shadows.
– Improved Water shaders.

## Why
Most Shaderspacks exist on a spectrum, from Vanilla+ packs that don’t do enough, to ones that are impractical for gameplay.
As packs add more features and effects, they tend to focus on things that diverge too much from the base game.
LBR Enhanced has the goal of being a middle-ground pack focused

## Screenshots
I used some extra mods while making the pack, screenshots contain some modded blocks and things.
– Alpine Highlands, Maple Woodlands, and Sugi Forest biomes from Nature’s Spirit.
– The structures are made from Create blocks.
– Bedrock Waters changes water colors, I have disabled both settings on it’s configuration menu.
– PBR Textures are from Embrace Pixels and Create LAB PBR.

## Planned Features
– Options
– FXAA and Texture Filtering
– Emmision and HDR
– Bloom (And other PostFX)
– Distant Horizons Support (Also Distant Fog)
– Mod Support and Compatibility

LBD Shaders

   
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### 📋 About
LBD Shders is a shaderpack which is ideal for learning OptiFine GLSL due to its good structure. And maybe a few cool effects will be added too.

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### ⚙️ Compatibility
This pack works with OptiFine as well as Iris and has no major compatibility issues.

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Kyoko Shader’s

Experience Minecraft Like Never Before

Introducing Kyoko Shaders — a professionally crafted Vanilla+ shader pack designed to deliver realistic lighting, vibrant colors, and immersive atmosphere while preserving the iconic feel of Minecraft. Built with both beauty and performance in mind, Kyoko Shaders creates a cinematic experience without straying too far from the game’s original style.

From glowing sunsets and dynamic shadows to crystal-clear water reflections and volumetric clouds, every visual effect has been carefully tuned to make your world feel alive.

✨ Features
Realistic lighting and dynamic shadows
Vibrant Vanilla+ visual style
Beautiful water reflections and wave effects
Soft bloom and cinematic atmosphere
Volumetric clouds and enhanced skies
Improved sunlight, moonlight, and ambient lighting
Smooth reflections and immersive environmental effects
Enhanced fog for realistic depth and atmosphere
Balanced visual quality and optimized performance
Multiple settings for both high-end and lightweight gameplay

KUDA Shaders

[](https://modrinth.com/shader/kuda-shaders)


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**WIP! Expect bugs and errors!**

**This shader provides detailed Minecraft gameplay that’s compatible with Iris and OptiFine!**


# 📝Introduction:
KUDA Shaders is a detailed and polished shader pack designed to enhance Minecraft’s visuals without adding unnecessary effects. It focuses on realistic lighting, dynamic fog, and clean color grading to create a balanced and immersive experience. With strong compatibility and flexibility with various features to choose from, it offers high-quality semi-realistic visuals while remaining lightweight (if customized in Iris shader pack options) and thus suitable for any modern PC!


# 📥Installation:
This shader pack provides detailed Minecraft gameplay that’s compatible with Iris and OptiFine! This shader is *made for* **all versions and snapshots between 1.6.1 and 26.1.1**.

⚠️**It is recommended to change the shader packs quality by going to Iris’ shader pack options when loading the shader to suit your PCs components!** *If you load something too performance-intensive* (like _Ultra_ or _**Cinematic**_ mode), *your GPU will have a hard time to render everything and you will get very bad and unstable framerates!* Use the chart below to see what mode is best suitable for you:

| Shader pack quality | Suitable for |
| — | — |
| Lowest | Low-end PCs/laptops |
| Low | Low-end PCs/laptops |
| Medium | Low-end and medium-end PCs/laptops |
| High | Medium-end PCs/laptops |
| _Ultra_ | _Medium-end and high-end PCs/laptops_ |
| _**Cinematic**_ | _**High-end PCs/laptops only!**_ |


# ✨Features:
Check them out in the Iris shader pack options menu (_default keybind to open Iris menu:_ “0”)!


# 🛠️Versioning:
This shader pack uses the following versioning system:
– **Base pack:** standard versioning
– -> *e.g.* **1.4.0, 2.4.4,…**


# 💘 Support me!
To help me and make me develop more fascinating projects, share and recommend this shader. Thank you so much!!!

You can also try my other projects [here](https://modrinth.com/user/Titan1um) or the projects me and Polr made [here](https://modrinth.com/organization/titan1um-x-polr)! 😀


Kappa Shader

[](https://youtu.be/QWAb4RLTiMk)

## **What is the Kappa Shader?**
A shaderpack that aims towards a realistic, but also authentic look. So it is not plainly using physically accurate vales and equations like many other packs do. Instead, while still using many accurate calculations, it is tweaked to reproduce what you could observe in nature, which usually goes beyond just having equations to describe most phenomenons.

## **What features does it offer?**
* Dynamic soft shadows
* Screen-space path-tracing (SSPT)
* Temporal Anti-Aliasing and Upscaling (TAAU)
* Procedural realistic skybox with multiple cloud layers
* Screen-space reflections and optional offscreen environment reflections (when enabling the reflection capture)
* Volumetric fog
* Random per-day and daytime driven weather parameters controlling clouds and fog
* labPBR resourcepack support
* Various optional lens effects such as depth of field, lens flares and vignette
and many, many more.

## **Any Requirements?**
* Optifine for 1.16 or newer/Iris 1.5.0 or newer
* GTX 1050/RX 560 or similar/better (has to support OpenGL 4.0, something faster than those is recommended though)
* Windows/Linux
* **DUE TO REPEATED ISSUE-REPORTS: Intel HD 5000 Graphics and older are NOT supported!**

## **External Links:**
* My Website: [Link](https://rre36.com/kappa-shader)
* My Discord Server: [Link](https://discord.gg/y5xzQ6H)

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Just Colored Lighting

Just Colored Lighting and Dynamic Lights added to a very fast shader for Potato computers, with optional shadows, texture upscaling, and great PBR support (even from block lights). Distant Horizons and Voxy are also supported.

It is the fastest colored lighting shader I could make, and the optional Global Illumination has no fps impact.

Beta versions are not tested on all hardware yet. Please let me know if it works for you, or if you get bugs, on discord.

If you find anything in mods that doesn’t glow right, let me know and I’ll try to add support asap. All modded blocks that are light sources should automatically work, and pbr textures can optionally also turn anything into colored light sources.

concrete can also be optionally turned into colored lights for all your neon light needs.

The shader might work on older versions, I just haven’t tested them so let me know!

Incremental shaders

Incremental Shaders improves various visual aspects of the game through small, progressive enhancements; delivering cleaner lighting, richer colors, and better overall clarity while preserving the original look and feel.

-Shadows with distortion to reduce aliasing
-Day/night cycle with proper darkening and blue-shifted night vision
-Distance fog that gets thicker at night
-Waving grass, flowers, and leaves (fades out at distance)
-ACES tone mapping with a cool blue tint
-Rain and thunderstorm effects (darker, desaturated, foggier)
-Torch flicker
-Vignette

Hysteria Shaders


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[](https://ko-fi.com/elocindev)

A stylized, atmospheric horror-themed Iris shaderpack with high customizability and performance.
Successor of [Insanity Shader](http://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/shaders/insanity-shader).

Based on Photon, Hysteria provides a similar feel to Insanity, but with modern features such as volumetric clouds and fog, colored lighting, distant horizons support, and more!




– 🧟 **Atmospheric Scary Look.** Perfect for horror & zombie modpacks!
– 📓 **Highly customizable shader configuration.** Expanded from Photon’s limits.
– ⛈️ **Immersive & Dynamic Weather.** Every day is a different day, with different clouds and colors.
– 🌫️ **Volumetric Fog & Clouds.** With ground-level and distant fog, changing volumetric clouds, and more!
– 🌎 **Distant Horizons Support.** Experimental!
– 📝 **User-friendly menu.** Including a quick options menu with easy to configure settings.
– 💻 **Runs on most modern PCs.** Optimized even for lower-end GPUs. Even better than Insanity!
– 🔦 **Always bring some torches.** Not only the night is dark, the Nether and End are even worse!
– 🌎 **Wide compatibility across versions.** Supports all newer MC versions from 1.7.10 upwards.
– ☀️ **Built-in Colored Lighting.** With support for labPBR resource packs.

**Made with 🖤 by ElocinDev**


– **Sixthsurge**
– For making Photon, the shaderpack that Hysteria is based on
– **Capt Tatsu**
– For making BSL, helping me start out Insanity. Without Insanity, Hysteria wouldn’t exist!