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Community
- Join my discord server for questions, suggestions and news about Photon
- You can also give me money if you would like to
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
Showcase videos
Acknowledgments
- Emin - Shadow bias method from Complementary Reimagined (fully fixes peter panning and light leaking underground!)
- DrDesten - Depth tolerance calculation for SSR (helps to prevent false reflections)
- Jessie - f0 and f82 values for labPBR hardcoded metals
- Sledgehammer Games - Bloom downsampling method used in Call of Duty Advanced Warfare (described here)
- http://momentsingraphics.de/ - Blue noise texture
- NASA Scientific Visualization Studio - Galaxy image
