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Features

  • Fully revamped sky, lighting and water
  • Multiple volumetric cloud layers driven by an immersive weather system, providing different skies each day
  • Colored lighting (enabled with Ultra profile, requires Iris)
  • Full labPBR resource pack support
  • Extensive settings menu allowing you to customize every aspect of the shader, including many optional features like Minecraft-style clouds and a galaxy in the night sky
  • Volumetric fog
  • Lighting effects: variable-penumbra shadows, ambient occlusion, screen-space reflections
  • Camera effects: bloom, depth of field, motion blur
  • Much improved image quality with TAA, FXAA and CAS
  • Advanced temporal upscaling (disabled by default) for low end devices

Compatibility

  • Photon can be used with Iris (recommended) or OptiFine on Nvidia, AMD and Intel GPUs
  • Iris is a modern shader loader with far better performance, mod compatibility and developer features than OptiFine. Some features (Colored Lighting) will only work on Iris
  • Photon is also compatible with Distant Horizons

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Published 10 months ago
Updated 3 days ago