Ok, I am trying to do some work on 'Just Colored Lighting' shader this week, and polish it up. I am wondering if anyone would want me to try to create a newer hybrid of it and Icarus. Basically like Pegasus 2.0. The Pegasus shaders did not grow well, but the original idea was to be icarus without the expensive lighting, just moving features over after they had matured and were better optimized. But the code got tangled up and too slow for what it's doing, and the core of its colored lighting ...
2025-10-14 19:18:55 +0000 UTC
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What's New This Week (Quick):
More Progress on New Water, and its menu defaults set to actually work
Sun on shiny things reworked: https://youtu.be/9Vnj8KHxo00?si=PM78NiJGmhxjNtAI
LOTS of bug fixes
unfortunately, 'Classic Presets' are broken on this week's version
Full change logs are below ...
2025-10-03 21:43:38 +0000 UTC
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Ok now that you all have the lens flares what do you think? By default they are on, but the star shaped flares are off. I think they are too bright right now, but I haven't settled on a good strength yet. You get to decide! Should they even be on at all? (Pick as many as you want)
Reference: https://youtu.be/qOmdJ0oHLGg
Please use the newest September version (2025-9)
2025-09-11 02:54:58 +0000 UTC
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What's New This Week (Quick):
Info:
2025-09-05 22:18:52 +0000 UTC
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Developed for iris, tested in minecraft 1.20.1 (and 1.21.6) If you get bugs in other mc versions let me know!
Version Numbers:
version numbers are the date I made them, the newest is usually the best. (It's Year-month-day format)
for example 'Icarus v 2025 -3-29' is the version of the shader I uploaded on March 29th 2025
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Having the PC be broken for a few weeks really interrupted my flow. But that can be a good thing! I spent the last week or 2 working on all the shaders I tend to not focus on as much to try to get back into the swing of things, and now that I feel like I'm there, I want to use this opportunity to ask what everyone would like me to focus on, before I get hyperfocused on a certain feature set. Here are some of the things on my mind, feel free to mention more and vote for more than one!
Vo...
2025-08-14 17:00:42 +0000 UTC
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I usually like to do an update every week, but I can't this week and maybe not next week either. My computer stopped working, and then my old computer decided to break too. It's going to take me a bit to figure out what's wrong and get going again. I am hopeful to still get something else done for July, but we'll just have to see how it goes. I have some parts coming and an waiting on delivery, then it's just diagnosing and rebuilding the computer.
2025-07-12 00:50:55 +0000 UTC
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Developed for iris, tested in minecraft 1.20.1 (and 1.21.6) If you get bugs in other mc versions let me know!
Version Numbers:
version numbers are the date I made them, the newest is usually the best. (It's Year-month-day format)
for example 'Icarus v 2025 -3-29' is the version of the shader I uploaded on March 29th 2025
Extra Attachments:
Developed for iris, tested in minecraft 1.20.1 (and 1.21.4) If you get bugs in other mc versions let me know!
Version Numbers:
version numbers are the date I made them, the newest is usually the best. (It's Year-month-day format)
for example 'Icarus v 2025 -3-29' is the version of the shader I uploaded on March 29th 2025
Extra Attachments:
Developed for iris, tested in minecraft 1.20.1 (and 1.21.4) If you get bugs in other mc versions let me know!
Version Numbers:
version numbers are the date I made them, the newest is usually the best. (It's Year-month-day format)
for example 'Icarus v 2025 -3-29' is the version of the shader I uploaded on March 29th 2025
Extra Attachments:
I want to finalize this improvement to the colored lighting shader this week, and then port the system into Pegasus early this May.
It does a lot with block light while still being very very fast.
It will be a bit of a mess porting it, so I want to keep it separate while I work on it and not just put it on modrinth, so that I can still handle bug reports for the core version.
But as my supporters, you can all have early access to it and help shape where it goes!
Your f...
2025-04-21 19:29:01 +0000 UTC
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2025-04-17 00:53:49 +0000 UTC
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Developed for iris, tested in minecraft 1.20.1 (and 1.21.4) If you get bugs in other mc versions let me know!
Version Numbers:
version numbers are the date I made them, the newest is usually the best. (It's Year-month-day format)
for example 'Icarus v 2025 -3-29' is the version of the shader I uploaded on March 29th 2025
Extra Attachments:
Developed for iris, tested in minecraft 1.20.1. If you get bugs in other mc versions let me know!
Version Numbers: version numbers are the date I made them, the newest is usually the best. (It's Year-month-day format)
Attachments:
'Icarus feature fixes v2' is a resource pack that fixes the color of the '3D grass shader', it is also inside the shader.zip, it might need to be loaded on top. Don't use it if not using the 3D Grass shader or...
2025-03-07 17:56:05 +0000 UTC
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So should I focus more on the terrain physics or the fog/smoke/mist physics or something else? (Results will be combined with YouTube member poll) I also have a lot of bugs to deal with this month
2025-03-03 19:39:49 +0000 UTC
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As of August 2025, the HD version of my resource pack is free. (version 29) If I can figure out how to fix what broke with the 3D material transitions, I will probably start making more textures again. This is what they looked like and how the 'borders' part is currently broken after 1.19.2 https://youtu.be/nE97aaMnWwU
It has the extra textures I made for some 'Wilder Wild' blocks, and might have some other changes.
2025-02-16 22:49:10 +0000 UTC
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Developed for iris, tested in minecraft 1.20.1. If you get bugs in other mc versions let me know!
Version Numbers: version numbers are the date I made them, the newest is usually the best. (It's Year-month-day format)
Attachments:
'Icarus feature fixes v2' is a resource pack that fixes the color of the '3D grass shader', it is also inside the shader.zip, it might need to be loaded on top. Don't use it if not using the 3D Grass shader or...
2025-02-02 04:41:56 +0000 UTC
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Anyone who's been here a while knows I tend to jump around between things so I don't burn out, but I still try to prioritize certain things (usually just based on what I think looks worst).
I have a really big to do list though, and I want to make sure that I am focusing some decent time on what is important to you. So please vote on which things you would like to see next! You can vote for multiple things.
I will still jump around, but this stuff will get more focus. Some of th...
2025-01-15 17:42:02 +0000 UTC
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Ok everyone I need your help to get this how you want!
I recently added some new clouds styles to boost performance. And I am about to be doing a lot of technical stuff for denoising and how crappy entities look.
In the mean time, I need your help to get the presets how you want, and to default settings how you want, and to know what's important to you so that I do the things that matter to you.
Please help me out by filing in below!
(There will be another poll about w...
2025-01-12 18:05:00 +0000 UTC
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Here's a sneak peak of Updates for Pegasus Shaders. They will be on the discord testing threads too once I get a little more done. Then once bug free they'll be on modrinth. Probably buggy, let me know about bugs on discord!
Versions:
2025-1-7:
Developed for iris, tested in minecraft 1.20.1. If you get bugs in other mc versions let me know!
Version Numbers: version numbers are the date I made them, the newest is usually the best. (It's Year-month-day format)
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Developed in iris 1.7.2 in Minecraft 1.20.1, if you get bugs on other iris or MC versions let me know!
versions:
12-30:
12-27b:
-fixed lack of reflections on water on profile: Low, Low Grass Test, Medium Toon
2024-12-03 03:09:35 +0000 UTC
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I am going to add Reflections / basic global illumination and POM support for the next wave and try to get it into a release state.
After that I am open to suggestions for the next alpha phase (which will probably take a while to finish). Here are some of the things I am thinking about. Feel free to comment anything else, if it doesn't let you here, discord is good, I'm not exactly sure how polls work on here.
I want to add a lot of the Icarus features, but i am trying to optimiz...
2024-11-21 06:45:13 +0000 UTC
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Developed on iris 1.7.2 for Minecraft 1.20.1, if you get bugs on other iris versions let me know!
Versions:
*The 'feature fixes' resource pack just fixes the color on the sides of the 3d grass blocks, put it on top. It will be necessary for other features in the future to get around iris limitations.
11:28: Mirror Test - Glints & Voxel Lighting Test (use attached configs.txt)
-Voxel based lig...
2024-11-02 22:55:13 +0000 UTC
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Only tested in Iris 1.7.2 for 1.20.1, Older versions may have better compatibility.
-new: grass, auroras: both not perfect yet
versions:
10-31:
-many improvements/options for 3d grass, including distance/range slider, patches of no 3d grass, more variation, lighting, bugs, etc.
-it works side by side with bounce lighting now, but the bounce light is disabled on the 3d grass itself cause it doesn't have 3d normals yet.
-if yo...
2024-10-19 02:34:52 +0000 UTC
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It will probably be a while before I do another tutorial, but wanted to see what people want next.
2024-10-11 00:15:39 +0000 UTC
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I'll drop what I'm working on here if anyone wants to play around with it. Thank you for the support, -don't want to keep you waiting!
-Normal preset is the old Fancy
Fancy preset has the new clouds, and more water effects
-Ultra is just for screenshots, it runs the clouds full res and even lags my machine
-you can turn down the cloud layers in clouds menu
-i have more to fix about refractions and sunrise/set with the new clouds
PERFORMANCE IS NOT AT ALL WH...
2024-10-10 02:35:24 +0000 UTC
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I am developing using Iris for Minecraft 1.20.1 (iris-1.7.2+mc1.20.1).
intel (and Mac?) are the only gpu brands i know of not working right now. Optifine is broken. please report bugs and incompatibilities and I'll try to fix them soon. Your feedback helps this improve!
versions:
9-30:
-puddles can now last a lot longer without making rain take forever to get things wet.
-reduced default fresnel on rough materials. I think it looks closer...
2024-09-09 01:30:41 +0000 UTC
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I would like to get an early version of Pegasus (low to mid range shader with crashing Beach waves) into modrinth/curseforge in the next week or so. If anyone would like to test early builds, please come by my discord and go to 'roles and channels' to apply as a tester, and feel free to ping me.
2024-08-28 19:56:48 +0000 UTC
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Hey! I am following through on making the crashing beach waves more accesible to play with at good frame rates by merging 'Simply Upscaled' and 'Icarus shaders'. This is VERY early access. like its just the waves and basic clouds added to Simply Upscaled. I will put some time into this and Simply Upscaled this week.
Here's the first early version, I'll upload a video introduction soon and try to make it worth using!
DISCORD WILL USUALLY HAVE MORE UPDATED VERSIONS fo...
2024-08-27 21:35:04 +0000 UTC
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