Hyperreal Shaders

Cinematic, physically based shaders for Minecraft that keep the Minecraft look. Real water with waves and ripples, volumetric clouds, soft shadows, light bouncing between blocks, and a full camera system. All of it is tunable from a big in-game settings menu.

Water

• Physically based ocean waves: deep-water dispersion, waves that calm down in shallow water, and smooth crests
• Interactive water: ripples spread around you as you walk or swim, falling in makes a splash, and boats push a wake
• No water inside boats
• Refraction, depth-based color and clarity, caustics on the sea floor and screen-space reflections
• Shoreline foam, rain ripples and underwater light shafts

Sky & atmosphere

• Volumetric cumulus clouds with soft lighting and adjustable size, plus high cirrus
• Cloud shadows on the ground
• Physically based sky, sunsets with twilight colors, a realistic sun and moon, stars, the Milky Way, aurora and shooting stars
• Blue-shifted distance haze and god rays
• Animated End sky with a swirling void, and a dragon-fight mode
• Smoky fog and floating embers in the Nether

Lighting

• Soft shadows that are sharp at contact and get softer with distance, with colored shadows through stained glass and water
• Global illumination: sunlight and torchlight bounce between blocks
• SSAO, contact shadows, multi-bounce occlusion and subsurface glow through leaves and grass
• Warm, flickering torchlight, and lightning that lights up the world

Materials

• labPBR resource pack support: normal maps, 3D depth (POM) with self-shadowing, metals, emission, porosity
• Automatic PBR for vanilla textures: metals reflect in their own color, and polished stone and gems shine
• Rain makes the ground wet and forms puddles with ripples
• Footprints in soft ground fade after a few seconds

Camera & cinematic

• Depth of field with autofocus and bokeh, motion blur, TAA, auto exposure and thresholded bloom
• Anamorphic flares and lens flares
• Tone mappers: ACES, AgX, Filmic, Neutral and Reinhard
• Color grading presets, including a flat LOG profile for video editing
• Optional letterbox and clip effects

Settings & profiles

More than 150 options in organized menus, with Low, Medium, High, Ultra, Cinematic and Video profiles.

Requirements

• Iris (also works in clients that use Iris, such as Lunar Client). OptiFine is not supported.
• A dedicated GPU is recommended. The Ultra and Cinematic profiles target RTX 4070-class cards; use Medium or High on weaker GPUs.

Tips

• For the 3D block look, use a labPBR resource pack.
• The biggest FPS setting is Shadow Resolution: 4096 looks almost identical to 6144 and is much faster.

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