RealisticallyOptimized

RealisticallyOptimized Shader

Overview

RealisticallyOptimized is a stylized, performance-focused shader preset with toon lighting, strong outlines, brighter sky highlights, deeper nights, and improved emissive handling for ores and light sources.

Features

- Real-time shadow mapping for terrain, entities, textured geometry, and water. - Toon ramp direct lighting with adjustable shadow darkness and step count. - Day/night color tinting with global vibrance control. - White world outline effect in final pass (Complementary-inspired depth-based method). - Adjustable outline thickness and brightness. - Brighter sky/sun/moon rendering with preserved geometry separation. - Darker nighttime grading with optional cool blue weather/night tint. - Enhanced blocklight contribution across terrain, entities, and textured passes. - Stronger emissive treatment for major light sources (torch, lantern, glowstone, sea lantern, candles, campfire, etc.). - Complementary-style glowing ores using per-ore groups and per-pixel ore-part detection: - Iron, Gold, Copper, Lapis, Emerald, Diamond, Nether Quartz, Nether Gold, Redstone. - Adjustable ore glow strength (`GLOWING_ORE_MULT`). - Water shading with toon-lit base and no forced water glow overlay. - Waving vegetation support via custom block material IDs.

Install

1. Put `RealisticallyOptimized.zip` in `.minecraft/shaderpacks`. 2. Select `RealisticallyOptimized` in the Iris shader menu. 3. Ensure Shadows are enabled in Iris settings.

Troubleshooting

- Set Graphics to Fancy or Fabulous. - Set Shadow Quality to at least 1024. - Test at noon near a wall and a mob (`/time set noon`).