Iris Shaders

This is the Twitter account for Iris, a modern, fast shader mod for Minecraft! Get it at

[Iris Shaders @IrisShaders]

been working on a cool thing

I will not elaborate

[Iris Shaders @IrisShaders]

@kagua_kurusu @abc_kuma1025 Funnily enough, it's actually not fixed, as it's done completely on purpose to trick Windows into making the screen borderless. In 26.2 pre-release 4, they just changed the number to be minus one to hide it.

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@0xstinker There is on the Sodium GitHub, though I’m attempting to get pack devs to migrate their packs natively to Aperture instead. I’d be interested to know how you did this. (Fork of Iris?)

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some news on Aperture (the successor to Iris):

...still working on it! Betas have officially been sent out privately to shader devs. (This is running on 26.2, Vulkan, with Sodium.)

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@ckelleyexe @CRJakob DLSS + RR is amazing, and leagues ahead of what it was a few years ago. (You can run it in DLAA to just get the better denoiser, with no upscaling).

Realistically, it's only going to get faster.

[Iris Shaders @IrisShaders]

okay, been seeing a lot of thoughts about this, so to get everyone up to speed.

The new mod is named Aperture, and is currently in private beta. It does not support old packs, and there's... honestly not much to show, as I just started on the Vulkan rewrite last month.

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@AtilesSalcedo @slicedlime @_MINECRAFT_LIVE Iris will be discontinued. I have been working on a brand new shader mod for the past two years.

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@ckelleyexe @CRJakob ReSTIR is just a sampling method for RT, and still requires all the RT tech.
PRT is at least partially baked, making it *impossible* to use in MC.
SDFGI is not fully real time.

Ray tracing is chosen because it is the only good option for MC, not because of the hype.

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@messeduppcs Even if they *did* get it back in 2011, if they didn’t enforce it they’d have issues.

https://t.co/ALJOVAh4yD is a very popular example of this, but tl;dr: even if you get a trademark, if you do not enforce people not using the name, you can effectively lose it

[Iris Shaders @IrisShaders]

@messeduppcs the specific reason it was denied was because by the time it was requested (2019), "Skyblock" was already being used as a genre name and not to refer to that one map. You can't trademark something if everyone is already using that name to refer to the idea

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@ckelleyexe @CRJakob Baked lighting is also... baked.

That is somewhat of a big problem in many cases.

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@meowkoteeq they are horribly understaffed and review times are measured in weeks for new mods

otherwise it's great

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@pwincediana the arrow keys are sacred, we have all collectively agreed as modders not to bind anything to them

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Okay, we have a problem.

The Iris shader list button, as everyone knows, is O.
The new friends list is also opened with O.

What do I change the Iris button to?

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@lostboys this is a horrible idea

but it is also funny

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@EnumDev_ Vulkan only. Iris will remain for 26.2-26.4, most likely, OpenGL only.

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@caiobagrr 5070 ti, running at 16 render distance. Minor to no optimization implemented yet.

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@AmedLiagos Shaders have settings, unlike texture packs; and once you learn them, you’ll want to be changing them constantly.

[Iris Shaders @IrisShaders]

The changes that are probably going to happen:
- Shader screen (O currently) will be changed to i
- Reload button (R currently) will be changed to F3 + R
- Toggle button (K currently) will remain unchanged

[Iris Shaders @IrisShaders]

Okay, we have a problem.

The Iris shader list button, as everyone knows, is O.
The new friends list is also opened with O.

What do I change the Iris button to?

[Iris Shaders @IrisShaders]

@ItzAngel_079 Unlikely in the near future, but it’s very possible the way they’re going. Sodium replaces the chunk mesher (turning blocks into visible geometry), as well as the chunk renderer (drawing that geometry).

There’s a lot of complicated details like vertex formats, etc.

[Iris Shaders @IrisShaders]

@BeanerOfSnow No, there’s literally no other way to put it, the entire format “sucks”

That’s how every shader dev would put it

[Iris Shaders @IrisShaders]

@BeanerOfSnow yeah, it sucks

[Iris Shaders @IrisShaders]

@brainage19 This is Steadfast, coderbot’s new pack on Modrinth! You can run it now on Iris. It was just a small pack I decided to port over first.

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@x8c8r @gslashm no problem

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@x8c8r @gslashm literally already out