DrDesten’s Minecraft Shaders

What DrDesten’s Minecraft Shaders is

DrDesten’s Minecraft Shaders is a free, configurable shader project for Minecraft Java Edition, described as gameplay-oriented. It requires OptiFine or Iris and supports Minecraft 1.8.9 and newer. Its physically based rendering supports LabPBR 1.3 and SeusPBR/OldPBR formats, with features including normals, roughness, reflectance, emission, ambient occlusion, subsurface scattering, and height for LabPBR. Visual effects include parallax occlusion mapping, depth of field, raytraced reflections, screen-space refraction, temporal anti-aliasing, bloom, motion blur, and screen-space ambient occlusion. Users can adjust camera, exposure, tonemapping, weather, fog, sky colors, outlines, and other rendering options. Directional lightmaps require a PBR-capable resource pack, and version 2.1 added Distant Horizons support. Higher bokeh sample counts can significantly affect performance, and SSAO has a high performance impact. The project also notes possible screen-border artifacts from parallax occlusion mapping, especially at greater depth. The latest listed release is version 2.1.5 Hotfix, which fixes compile errors on the newest Iris version.