Solas Shader
ModrinthA modern fantasy stylized shaderpack with colored lighting and stunning visuals
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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
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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.
Versions
Release
3.7
**Features added/changed:**
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+ Reworked Aurora Borealis. Visually there shouldn't be many differences, however you can now actually fly through it. The…
Release
3.6
**Features added/changed:**
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+ Reworked the entire night sky. Greatly improved generated nebulae, improved the color palette and increased stars amount.
+…
Release
3.5
**Features added/changed:**
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+ Added generated nebula to the night sky
+ Reworked the atmosphere once again for more vibrant colors, smoother gradients and…
Release
3.4
**Features added/changed:**
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+ Added screen space ambient occlusion and shadows. Both work on normal terrain, Distant Horizons and Voxy LODs. Screen space…
Release
3.3
**Features added/changed:**
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+ Added low Earth orbit. Flying to Y=100000 (by default, controlled by the Karman Line slider) will slowly transform the…
Release
3.2
**Features added/changed:**
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+ Added full support for Voxy mod. In the next Solas update I'll probably add screen space shadows to Voxy and DH LODs.
+…
Release
3.1c
**Features added/changed:**
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+ Reworked dynamic clouds weather. It should be much smoother and even more random now
+ Improved Aurora Borealis
+ Added color…
Release
3.1b
**Features added/changed:**
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+ Added color settings for The End
+ Slightly tweaked the shape of The Nether Smoke
+ Made exponential Nether fog less…
Release
3.1
**Features added/changed:**
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+ Greatly improved water normals, light scattering and absorption
+ Reworked the lighting model on Ender Protoplanetary Disk…
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?
Works with Iris, Optifine. Supports versions 1.12–26.2. See the download section on this page for the full list of supported versions and loaders.
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