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Arc [shader]

Shader

by Null5112

A realistic & performant shader for minecraft.

Type

Shader

CurseForge Downloads

0

CurseForge ID

648063

Modrinth Downloads

0

Modrinth ID

yY9oI7oz

Last Updated

Apr 13, 2026

Description

A shader for Optifine & Iris that aims to providing realistic visuals with very minimal performance loss. Almost every effect/feature can be fine-tuned for the ideal balance between performance and quality. This project is still a very early work-in-progress, there is much work to be done.

 

Features

  • HDR lighting
  • Volumetric lighting
  • Volumetric fog/smoke
  • Manual & Automatic exposure
  • Screen-space reflections
  • Water waves & refraction
  • Supports basic, distorted, and cascaded shadow mapping.
  • Depth-of-Field
  • Bloom


Also contains special support for PhysicsMod ocean waves & snow!

 

Settings

- World
- Materials
- Atmosphere
- Shadows
- Camera
- Effects
- Debug

 

Resource Packs

Supports LabPBR and OldPBR texture formats; The default setting for materials is "vanilla", which hard-codes a limited set of PBR material values for the original Minecraft textures.

The recommended resource pack is Patrix; when used make sure to set the shader setting for Material Format to "Patrix", as it uses a special combination of OldPBR and LabPBR formats.

 

Compatibility & Support

Fully compatible with Optifine & Iris. If you have any suggestions or requests, you can reach out to me on the ShaderLabs Discord.

Compatibility

Mod Loaders

Iris Optifine

Game Versions

1.16 1.16.1 1.16.2 1.16.3 1.16.4 1.16.5 1.17 1.17.1 1.18 1.18.1 +6 more

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