Colorwheel

Mod

by djefrey

Allows you to use Iris Shaders with Flywheel

Type

Mod

CurseForge Downloads

16,201,015

CurseForge ID

1254143

Modrinth Downloads

1,520,741

Modrinth ID

BzHgFoGz

Last Updated

Jun 12, 2026

Description

![](https://i.imgur.com/N5FtbeF.gif) **Colorwheel** is a mod that makes Flywheel and Iris compatible. This means that **you can play with Create 6 while using shaders and still have good performance!** This mod is similar to [Iris Flywheel Compat](https://modrinth.com/mod/iris-flw-compat). ## Shaderpacks There are 3 tiers of shaderpacks: * Shaderpacks that supports the mod officially * Shaderpacks with non-official support (using [Colorwheel-Patcher](https://modrinth.com/mod/colorwheel-patcher)) * Shaderpacks without support (may be compatible with the fallback mode) Developers can adapt their shaderpacks to be compatible with Colorwheel with this [documentation](https://djefrey.github.io/colorwheel/). As of today, shaderpacks officially compatible are: - Complementary Unbound/Reimagined, since r5.7 - Euphoria Patches, since 1.7.0 - Eclipse (edit of Bliss, available on [GitHub](https://github.com/Merlin1809/Eclipse-Shader)) - Glimmer, since v1.5 - I Like Vanilla, since v1.0.3 - Shrimple (WIP, available on [GitHub](https://github.com/Null-MC/Shrimple)) - Solas Shader, since v3.2 - Spooklementary, since v2.0.3 - Steadfast These shaderpacks above work straight out of the box, and require no intervention. There is also a fork of photon available on my [GitHub](https://github.com/djefrey/photon). This fork supports colored lighting on contraptions and is compatible with Voxy, which isn't the case with the patch available with Colorwheel-Patcher. Some shaderpacks have non-official support with some custom made patches Those patches are available with the [Colorwheel-Patcher](https://modrinth.com/mod/colorwheel-patcher) mod. Such shaderpacks are: - BSL 10.1 - Bliss 2.1.1 - 2.1.2 - Complementary 5.6 - 5.6.1 - Complementary 5.5.1 (with Colorwheel-Patcher 1.0.0) - Euphoria Patches 1.6.3 - 1.6.8 - Photon 1.3a - Rethinking Voxels 0.1-beta9 For shaderpacks without support, a **fallback mode** is available. This mode will use existing shaders as a best effort attempt, like Iris Flywheel Compat does. This doesn't replace true compatible packs as there WILL BE rendering issues, but that's better than nothing. Those shaderpacks have been tested with Create without major issues: - Kappa - MakeUp Ultra Fast - Noble - Nostalgia - Pastel Shaders - Sildur's Vibrant - Solas Shader - Super Duper Vanilla **Tip**: it's common for shaderpacks to disable Entity Shadows or Block Entity Shadows by default. Make sure that those options are toggled if you want Create contraptions to cast lights and shadows (and don't forget to toggle the required options for light casting in the shaderpack settings !). ## Compatibility As of version 1.0, Iris Flywheel Compat is incompatible with Colorwheel due to conflicting mixins. This won't be fixed. Create Better FPS is compatible, and may improve performance in some situations. This may happen either because the flywheel:off backend is used or because some blocks, like the factory gauges, are not rendered using Flywheel. ## Performances comparison **Steam Deck, BSL Low**: 1089 waterwheels: - Flywheel OFF: 2 fps - Create Better FPS: 5 fps - Colorwheel: 50 fps ## Modpacks Colorwheel doesn't requires a Flywheel mod. In this case, the mod will disable itself. Iris/Oculus is the only hard dependency.