Solas Shader
CurseForgeA good performing fantasy stylized shaderpack with colored lighting and fancy visuals
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latest vSolas Shader V3.7 CurseForge
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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.
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)
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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FAQ
How do I install Solas Shader?
Download the file for your Minecraft version and loader from this page, then drop the .jar into your mods (or plugins) folder and launch the game.
Is Solas Shader free?
Solas Shader is free to download on Modgrid — we link straight to the official source, no paywall or bundled installer.
Which Minecraft versions does Solas Shader support?
See the download section on this page for the full list of supported versions and loaders.





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