Icarus shaders -Updates for March 2025 (early access)

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 grass dirt will look green.

Modpack: this is my main test environment: https://modrinth.com/modpack/timetravelbeards-1.20.1-modpack

Versions:

2025-3-29:

• recursive reflections are now bug free!

• default sky color changed & completely adjustable, clouds look a lot better

• sunsets improved, no more quick swap

• darker nights by default

• waving plants improved

• LUTs added for custom color adjustments

  • they load in as resource packs

  • sample resource pack included in 'Extras' folder

• improved TA with less ghosting & less invalidation, there should be no more ghosting going around corners

• other bug fixes

• VIdeo Coming Soon to show these changes & how the Resource Packs work

2025-3-22:

• 3D grass shader footsteps fixed

  • option to choose the player's interaction with grass: none, wiggle, or flatten

• physics for sand & snow temporarily disabled

• the wind from 3d grass added to most plants, instead of the old wind it had

  • slider for how strong it is, in 'Nature & Atmosphere/Wind & Wavy Plants'

2025-3-21:

• bug fixes mostly

• sun glints & recursive rough specular reflections behave a lot better

• water caustic glints work again, but the settings aren't default, i'm working on new render presets

• reflection mob atlas format expanded for full pbr support & big enough for all vanilla mobs, i'll try to showcase this soon

• sky style 4 defaulted on

• big known bugs:

  • glass and water need a rework, thier lighting flickers and is too bright underground

  • the sun-glint system can be greatly optimized, and it needs it

  • fog rendering is still very sub-par & clouds style 5 is too slow

  • physics stuff still not done, been focusing on reflections

2025-3-15:

• Textures in off-screen Reflections!!

  • defaulted On on 'Hybrid High' & alll render presets

  • turn on/off or change detail level in 'Quick Performance / Reflection Detail/'

  • will be faster later, i can condense some data it's using

• optional Per pixel emmission in Off-screen Light sim & reflections (when including specular textures in 'reflection detail'

  • gives emmission from sculk & magma

  • gives roughness & reflectivity per pixel too

• optional off-scrren reflection textures for mobs

  • these are simplified textures & very blocky models with extra heads, but you can tell if it's a creeper or skeleton or villager sneaking up on you

  • you can load your own textures from a resource pack for this if you want to make them, but i'd wait, i may include an atlas with all vanilla mobs soon

  • billboard models might come soon to look better, they will have 3d shading

• perfect mirrors

  • in 'textures/texture overrides', use this to see and test the new reflections

• waterfalls: fixed busted normals

• glints from everything

  • closer to real time, & disco ball effect works when all the right settings are toggled on. ask if you want a config -it'll be buggy

2025-3-7:

• This is this version: https://youtu.be/d3JyE3hIVA0?si=ZxdxDdY1sX9T6jfY

• mostly fixed translucency rendering underground

• minor bug fixes

• progress on terrrain physics tests

• known bugs:

  • waterfalls have broken normals

  • lot's of other stuff i am working on

• Let me know in the poll what you'd like next! : https://www.patreon.com/posts/icarus-poll-to-123552410?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link

Older versions here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/icarus-shaders-121315203?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link