CelShade Shader
Shaderby Bartus131313
A lightweight, highly customizable shader that transforms Minecraft into a vibrant, retro comic book using crisp outlines and color posterization.
Description
Welcome to CelShade!
CelShade is a unique post-processing shader designed to completely overhaul Minecraft's aesthetic. Instead of aiming for hyper-realistic lighting or waving shadows, CelShade leans heavily into stylized art, transforming your blocky world into a vibrant, low-color-depth comic book.

Whether you're exploring the deep dark of a Lush Cave, wandering the desert or fighting an Ender Dragon, this shader gives everything a striking, hand-drawn, retro feel.

Key Features:
- Depth-Based Outlines: Automatically draws crisp, dark outlines around blocks, terrain changes, and entities based on scene depth.
- Color Posterization: Replaces smooth lighting gradients with distinct, chunky color bands.
- Vibrant Saturation: Boosts the natural colors of the game to make the limited color palette truly pop.
- Smart Fog Integration: The cel-shaded effect smoothly fades out into vanilla fog at the edge of your render distance, keeping the horizon looking natural.
- Highly Configurable: Everything is tweakable! Use the in-game shader settings menu to adjust the thickness of your outlines, the intensity of the colors, the strictness of the posterization, and the size of your vignette.
Requirements:
This shader is built for and requires Minecraft 1.16+ with Iris Shaders. It will run on every computer because it only uses final post-processing pass.
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