sixthsurge/photon

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1875 stars · 319 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

Photon is a gameplay-focused shader pack for Minecraft written in GLSL, adding realistic lighting, shadows, water, clouds, and post-processing effects. It runs via shader loaders such as Iris (recommended) or OptiFine and offers an extensive in-game settings menu.

Use cases

• make minecraft look realistic with shaders
• add soft shadows and volumetric fog to minecraft
• get screen-space reflections and better water in minecraft
• shader pack that doesn't hurt gameplay performance
• colored voxel lighting for minecraft with iris
• customize every graphics setting in a minecraft shader

When to choose

• you play Minecraft with Iris or OptiFine and want high-quality visuals with a gameplay focus
• you want labPBR resource pack support and extensive customization
• you need an actively maintained shader pack with multi-language menus

When to avoid

• you play on Apple Metal / macOS, which is not supported
• you have a very low-end GPU and can't disable heavy features
• you need a shader pack for a game other than Minecraft

Facets

plugin · maturity active

graphics simulation image-processing gaming-tools graphics cross-platform minecraft-shaderpack glsl iris optifine ray-tracing-effects volumetric-lighting labpbr game-development minecraft gpu

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