CelShade Shader

Welcome to CelShade!

CelShade is a unique post-processing shader designed to completely overhaul Minecraft’s aesthetic. Instead of aiming for hyper-realistic lighting or waving shadows, CelShade leans heavily into stylized art, transforming your blocky world into a vibrant, low-color-depth comic book.

Whether you’re exploring the deep dark of a Lush Cave, wandering the desert or fighting an Ender Dragon, this shader gives everything a striking, hand-drawn, retro feel.

Key Features:

• Depth-Based Outlines: Automatically draws crisp, dark outlines around blocks, terrain changes, and entities based on scene depth.
• Color Posterization: Replaces smooth lighting gradients with distinct, chunky color bands.
• Vibrant Saturation: Boosts the natural colors of the game to make the limited color palette truly pop.
• Smart Fog Integration: The cel-shaded effect smoothly fades out into vanilla fog at the edge of your render distance, keeping the horizon looking natural.
• Highly Configurable: Everything is tweakable! Use the in-game shader settings menu to adjust the thickness of your outlines, the intensity of the colors, the strictness of the posterization, and the size of your vignette.

Requirements:

This shader is built for and requires Minecraft 1.16+ with Iris Shaders. It will run on every computer because it only uses final post-processing pass.