Solas Shader

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.

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, ✨s
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
- Distant Horizons
- Iris Shaders (Preferred)
- OptiFine (Custom skyboxes and colored block lighting are not supported)

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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