DrDestens MinecraftShaders

DrDestens MinecraftShaders is a shaderpack for Minecraft: Java Edition. It features water effects with reflections, ambient occlusion, bloom, realistic depth of field, motion blur, TAA and many other things. The shaderpack supports the LabPBR and OldPBR/SeusPBR standard, and you can use it with PBR texturepacks for added detail.

Feature Overview

• Screen Space Reflections
• Depth of Field
• Screen Space Ambient Occlusion (SSAO)
• Temporal Anti-Aliasing (TAA)
• Physically Based Rendering
• Various Water Effects
• Godrays
• Bloom
• Motion Blur
• Realistic DoF Chromatic Aberration
• Custom sky gradient
• Improved Fog with Sunsets
• Improved Dynamic Lighting
• Directional Lightmaps
• Outline
• Custom Block Selection Outline

Full Feature List

Lighting

• PBR

 Enables Physically Based Rendering
 Make sure you enable Normal and Specular mapsm in the OptiFine shader options

• PBR Format – LabPBR 1.3, SeusPBR / OldPBR
• Physically Based Rendering
• Height as AO

 Uses the Height information for Ambient occlusion

• Normal Mapping Fix

 With newer OptiFine versions this might not be necessary
 Enable this if normal maps do not show on entities or handheld objects

• Use Hardcoded Metals

 If disabled, the shader will use the color for the reflectance data
 LabPBR only

• Subsurface Scattering
• Parallax Occlusion Mapping

 Adds additional detail to blocks using the height map
 Low performance impact
 Can create artifacts at screen borders

• POM Depth

 Specifies how deep the POM goes
 Higher values will create artifacts

• POM Distortion

 Exaggerates the height map
 Helps create more depth with small POM Depth values
 Creates artifacts when used with high POM Depth values

• Smooth POM

 Smooths out the height map
 Significantly reduces artifacts

• Skylight AO

 Specifies the amount of ambient occlusion on skylight

• Blocklight AO

 Specifies the amount of ambient occlusion on blocklight

• Skylight Gamma

 Higher = Darker
 Lower = Brighter

• Blocklight Gamma

 Higher = Darker
 Lower = Brighter

• Minimum Light

 Restricts blocklight to never go below this value
 Prevents caves from being pitch black (unless you set it to zero that is)

• Lightmap Colors
• Nether Ambient Brightness
• End Ambient Brightness
• End Ambient Saturation
• Skylight Day (RGB Color Picker)
• Skylight Night (RGB Color Picker)
• Blocklight (RGB Color Picker)

 Select blocklight color (torches, glowstone, etc.)
 If “Complex Blocklight” is enabled, this color will NOT be used

• Complex Blocklight

 Allows you to select two colors for blocklight
 One for dark parts, one for bright parts

• Blend Curve

 Higher: Emphasize “Bright” color
 Lower: Emphasize “Dark” color
 50 = linear transition

• Complex Blocklight Dark (RGB Color Picker)
• Complex Blocklight Bright (RGB Color Picker)

Depth Of Field

• Depth of Field

 Blurs non-focused objects, like a real camera

• Bokeh Samples

 Quality of the blur
 Higher is better
 Significantly affects performance

• DoF Intensity

 Intensity of the Depth of Field effect
 Low performance impact

• Maximum Blur – High, Unlimited

 Limits the strength of the DoF blur
 Helps reduce artifacts when using lower sample counts and is better for gameplay

• DoF Downsampling Amount

 Amount of Downsampling that takes place for the Depth of Field effect
 Reduces DoF artifacts, increases pixelation artifacts
 No/Low performance impact

• Far Blur Only

 Only blurs far away things

• Sample Rejection

 Improved DoF Quality by (mostly) removing color bleeding
 Can have a significant performance impact

• Focus Delay

 Sets how long the focus takes to adjust

Reflections

• Reflection Mode – OFF, Sky, Flipped Image, Raytraced
• Raytracing Quality

 Number of raytracing iterations
 Lower is faster

• Thickness Estimation Modifier – Infinite

 Increase this if the reflection blind spots annoy you
 Influences assumption about how thick a pixel is
 No performance impact

• Fade Edges
• Reflection Threshold

 PBR only
 Sets the minimum required reflectiveness in order for SSR to enable
 Higher values may introduce reflection cutoffs

• Screen Space Refraction

 Distorts things seen through water

• Refraction Strength
• Glass Reflections

 Adds reflections to tinted glass blocks

Water

• Waving Water

 ”Physical” Waves
 Moves the water surface

• Wave Height
• Wave Normals – OFF, Noise, Sine
• Normals Strength

 Fake Waves, pretending to be real ones
 Added detail

• Normals Scale
• Water Absorption Density
• Water Absorption Bias

 Adds a constant to the water fog distance
 Can help in making water more visible

• Water Texture

 Enables the vanilla water texture

• Water Color Options
• Water Absorption (RGB Color Picker)
• Absorption Color Multiplier

Camera and Tonemapping

• Exposure
• Tonemapping – Custom Reinhard, Unreal
• Contrast
• Vibrance
• Saturation
• Brightness
• Vignette – OFF, Round, Square

 Darkens screen borders

• Vignette Strength

Post Processing

• TAA

 Temporal Anti-Aliasing
 Smooths edges at the cost of a slightly blurrier image
 Might cause problems with OptiFine’s high-res screenshot feature

• TAA Options
• TAA Blending Constant

 Controls the opacity of the current frame
 Set this value lower for smoother TAA

• TAA Sharpening

 Changes the strength of the sharpening effect

• Bloom

 Creates a glow around bright objects
 Looks nice 😉

• Bloom Strength
• Motion Blur
• Motion Blur Intensity
• SSAO

 Screen Space Ambient Occlusion
 Makes cavities dark
 High performance impact

• SSAO Quality – Low, Medium, High
• SSAO Strength

Atmospherics

• Fog – OFF, Normal, Border
• Fog Amount
• Morning Fog

 Increases fog amount during sunsets
 Only works with fog in “Normal” mode
 Requires fog and sunsets to be enabled

• Morning Fog Strength
• Cave Fog
• Cave Fog Brightness
• Godrays
• Godray Colors
• Godray Sun (RGB Color Picker)
• Godray Moon (RGB Color Picker)
• Godray Strength
• Godray Radius
• Godray Samples
• Sky Colors
• Sky Noon (RGB Color Picker)
• Sky Sunset (RGB Color Picker)
• Sky Midnight (RGB Color Picker)
• End Sky Upper (RGB Color Picker)
• End Sky Lower (RGB Color Picker)
• Sun Angle

Weather

• Rain Detection – Temperature, Color
• Rain Opacity
• Rain Refraction
• Rain Refraction Strength

Other Stuff

• Outline – OFF, White, Black, Rainbow
• Outline Distance
• Block Selection Outline – Black, White, Rainbow

 Only works with newer OptiFine versions (G7 or higher)

• Block Selection Outline Opacity
• Wavy Blocks
• Wavy Leaves
• World Curvature
• World Radius
• Hand Invisibility Effect

 Distorts handheld objects when invisible

• White World
• Directional Lightmaps

 Applies normal mapping to dynamic lights
 Requires a ressource pack with PBR support

• Directional Lightmap Strength
• Dynamic Light Brightness

 Changes the brightness of light from emissive blocks

Optimisation

• Flat Vertices

 Disable when using custom models with smooth surfaces

Agreement

You are allowed to

• Use my shaderpack in your videos / screenshots

You are not allowed to

• Redistribute my shaderpack: If you want to provide a download link you must link to my Modrinth / Curseforge page
• Use monetized URL shorteners linking to downloads of my shaderpack
• Publish edits of my shaderpack without my permission