Zayko Shaders

Reworked Shader Pack   + More Detail sacrificing Preformance. (Recommended to stay on V7.2 if you want good preformance or wait for V2 of Zayko Lite)

Added new Shooting stars

Added more WIP Features  + Please report Issues that could have been caused by the addition of these features.

Fixed Reported Issues from V7.2

Overhauled the End Atmosphere

• Watcher's Eye
• Dragon's End Aurora
• End Nebula
• Void Particles

Added ✨ (Appearing Opposite the sun after rain)

Added Froglight

Fixed Soul Fire color correction to MCBL

Overhauled Settings Menu

Overhauled Water

• Gerstner Waves = realistic ocean-style waves with horizontal displacement
• Shore Foam = white foam where water meets terrain
• Depth-Based Colouring = deeper water appears darker/more saturated
• Rain Ripples = circular ripple distortion on water surface during rain

Overall Code Improvements to Increase FPS (exp. Removed Unnecessary duplicate code 40 or so lines)

Added New Auroras along with rarities

• Teal/Green/Yellow = 60% Chance of Appearing
• Red/Crimson = 20% Chance of Appearing
• Golden = 12% Chance of Appearing
• White/Silver = 8% Chance of Appearing

Added Nebula with Rarity System

• Always (every night)
• Common 75% Chance of Appearing
• Uncommon 37% Chance of Appearing
• Rare = 25% Chance of Appearing

Added Multiple Aurora Visual Improvements

• Dual-ribbon curtain = creates separation with vertical fold distortion
• Temporal pulsation = slow breathing that varies
• lit depth falloff = Brighter at base fading upwards like irl

Added Partial Screen-Space Contact Shadows (WIP - Disabled by Default)

Added Fun Effects (Replacing Extra Category in Settings)

• Negative World = inverts all colors like a photo negative
• Psychedelic = continuously shifts all hues over time with adjustable speed
• Earthquake = terrain shakes with sinusoidal waves, adjustable strength
• Hologram Entities = sci-fi holograms with blue tint, scanlines, and glow + Glitch Effect = RGB splitting, scanline displacement, and block artifacts
  • Old Film = 1920s cinema look with sepia, scratches, flicker, and vignette
  • Thermal Vision = thermal heat palette based on brightness
  • Thermal Vision = thermal heat palette based on brightness
  • CRT Monitor = old CRT display with scanlines, barrel distortion

Added Rain on Lens (WIP - Disabled by Default)

Added More Settings that trigger depending on specific preset

Added Adaptive Shadow Sampling

Added Blood Moon

• Red tinted lighting during moon phase 4
• Red fog tint at night during blood moon
• Activates only at night, blends out at sunrise

Added Adaptive Raytrace Stepping

Added full PCSS Shadows (Ultra Only)

Added Mirror Mode (WIP - Disabled by Default)

• Glass blocks become full mirrors
• Stained glass becomes tinted mirrors
• Uses existing reflection system (SSR)

Changed File Name Layout from "Zayko Shaders V7.1" to "Zayko V7.1"

Changed Enhanced Light Shaft Colouring

Changed Screen-Space Global Illumination (SSGI)

Changed Clouds base style

• Base Shape: Perlin
• Density: Low
• Amount: Few

Improved Setting Screen

• SHADOW-QUALITY and CONTACT-SHADOWS to Shadow Config
• SSGI to Lighting Config

Improved Temporal Dither as well as TAA Dither

Improved Volumetric light Sample Scaling

Improved Cloud Sample Scaling

Removed Old Nebulas to implement our new one!

Removed Certain Effects in the End for V7.2 Update

Added Shooting Stars that appear time to time (Randomized Chance of appearing at night, Higher chance when further from light sources)

Added a preset for the Original water

Added loading improvements when using Distent Horizons

Changed Stars to flicker? twinkle? whatever you want to call it.

Updated Water loading (Should load chunks with water faster at the possible cost of FPS)

Changed Water Design to be more clear when its less dence

Changed Water Colors

Changed Distent Horizons Water to match water preset

Changed underwater blurriness

Fixed Bugs reported in B-6.3 and V6.3

Fixed Water darkening too early

Fixed Sun not appearing when ajusting certain cloud settings

Fixed Stars not animating when faced with certain mods

Fixed End sky color being White when attempting to use Voxy (Still not Supported!)

Fixed Glass breaking or turning to water with certain mods

Fixed issue for newer mods not working due to incompatabilities

Fixed issue with Shader not working on Nividia Graphics cards (20 Series & Below)

Fixed Modded blocks not working with Shaders (all mods should work perfect now)

Improved Preformance if using Sodium

Fixed Glass breaking or turning to water with certain mods

Fixed issue for newer mods not working due to incompatabilities

Fixed issue with Shader not working on Nividia Graphics cards (20 Series & Below)

Changed Shader Settings Layout to be more simple and understandable

Made it possible to turn off glowing flowers and keep glowing ores on (and to turn off both)

Cloud base 2 fixed

Fixed Distent Horizons Support (tell me if you run into any issues.)

Fixed 4 Errors with loading Shader

"Ray" Tracing Option added (Path Tracing)

Improved Lighting

Improved Lighting loading for better prefromance (at least +1 FPS compared to 5.2)

Everything in Vb5.2

Fixed Issues from Vb5.2

Fixed 1.15 infinate loading screen from Vb5.2

fixed 1.11 infinate loading screen from Vb5.2

fixed loading issue with "Low" Preset from Vb5.2

the B series of versions is small Beta updates before the next bigger update. this normally changes the content drastrically or minmally.

Fixed End Portal Frame

added support for Optifine & Iris down to 1.7

other small changes

added better Iris compatability

Small Bug Fixes

Fix a major issue with Ultra Preset

Big Optimization Boost for Higher presets

Fixes 1.16 & 1.19 Crashes

Small Bug Fixes

Fixes certain issues with lower Optifine versions

Fixed Issue with 1.21.8 loading

Fixed 1.17 and below crashes

Optifine Support readded only down to 1.18

Removed Optifine Support

Optimized Preformance for High Presets

Added Older Version Support

Optimization

More Customization Features

Bug Fixes

Moderate Optimization

Slight improvements to lighting

little bug fixes for lower end PCs

added compatibility with newer versions