RealisticallyOptimized Shader

Overview

RealisticallyOptimized is a stylized, performance-focused shader preset with toon lighting, strong outlines, brighter sky highlights, deeper nights, and improved emissive handling for ores and light sources.

Features

• Real-time shadow mapping for terrain, entities, textured geometry, and water.
• Toon ramp direct lighting with adjustable shadow darkness and step count.
• Day/night color tinting with global vibrance control.
• White world outline effect in final pass (Complementary-inspired depth-based method).
• Adjustable outline thickness and brightness.
• Brighter sky/sun/moon rendering with preserved geometry separation.
• Darker nighttime grading with optional cool blue weather/night tint.
• Enhanced blocklight contribution across terrain, entities, and textured passes.
• Stronger emissive treatment for major light sources (torch, lantern, glowstone, sea lantern, candles, campfire, etc.).
• Complementary-style glowing ores using per-ore groups and per-pixel ore-part detection:
• Iron, Gold, Copper, Lapis, Emerald, Diamond, Nether Quartz, Nether Gold, Redstone.
• Adjustable ore glow strength (GLOWING_ORE_MULT).
• Water shading with toon-lit base and no forced water glow overlay.
• Waving vegetation support via custom block material IDs.

Install

1. Put RealisticallyOptimized.zip in .minecraft/shaderpacks.
2. Select RealisticallyOptimized in the Iris shader menu.
3. Ensure Shadows are enabled in Iris settings.

Troubleshooting

• Set Graphics to Fancy or Fabulous.
• Set Shadow Quality to at least 1024.
• Test at noon near a wall and a mob (/time set noon).