HyperShader v1.3.1 — Performance hotfix ⚡

Same look as v1.3, a lot less work for your GPU. If v1.3 cost you frames — especially at high render distance or high resolution — this is the one to grab.

🌑 SHADOW PASS NO LONGER RENDERS THE WHOLE WORLD

The shadow map only covers 96 blocks around you, but the shadow pass was rendering every chunk in your render distance into it — at 24 chunks that was ~2,700 chunk sections per frame, more than the main pass itself, for nothing. It now renders only what can actually land in the shadow map. Biggest single win at 16+ chunks. (Tunable: "Shadow caster distance" in the Shadows tab, including the old unlimited behaviour.)

☀️ GOD RAYS SKIP THE WORK WHEN THE SUN IS OFF-SCREEN

The 16-sample light-shaft march ran on every pixel even when the sun or moon was outside the frame — which is most of the time while you play — and then multiplied the result by zero. It now checks first.

🌸 BLOOM OFF = BLOOM PASSES GONE

With Bloom disabled (FAST profile), the two bloom passes still ran as full-screen passes writing zeros. They are now disabled outright, saving two full-screen passes per frame.

⚡ ENTITIES, HAND, CHESTS AND PARTICLES — LIGHT PER VERTEX

v1.3 gave mobs, players, your hand, chests, signs, beds and particles proper world lighting — but computed it for every pixel. Minecraft models are boxes with flat faces, so once per vertex gives the exact same picture for a tiny fraction of the cost. On a busy server spawn this one matters.

🔧 LEANER TERRAIN VERTEX SHADER

Tangent-space maths only when texture relief or POM is on; torch flicker phase is two sines instead of a noise lookup; emissive blocks no longer re-read their texture; aurora at half the cost.

🎛️ A NOTE ON PROFILES

Iris stores your shader options per file name, so every new version starts on the BALANCED profile. If you play on an integrated GPU, open the shader options after updating and pick FAST again — and keep the render distance reasonable: at 24 chunks on an iGPU, no shader pack is going to be fast.

HyperShader v1.3 — The Living Light Update 🔥✨🌌

Light stops being a number and starts being alive. Torches breathe, ores whisper from the dark, and the northern sky finally puts on a show.

🔥 LIVING WARM LIGHT — NEW

Torches, lanterns, campfires, glowstone, shroomlight, froglights, copper bulbs, lit furnaces and candles now emit their OWN colour — the flame glows, the stick and the iron don't.

Fire flickers with two overlapping rhythms so it never loops visibly, and the whole room breathes with it.

Soul torches, soul lanterns, sea lanterns, end rods and crying obsidian burn with their cold blue-violet light instead of a generic orange.

Works in the Nether too — glowstone and shroomlight finally look like the light sources they are. 🌋

💎 GLOWING ORES — NEW

Diamond, emerald, lapis, redstone, gold and copper shimmer in the dark.

Only the mineral glows: the stone and deepslate around it stay pitch black.

No more walking past a diamond vein because it blended into the wall.

🌌 AURORA BOREALIS — NEW

Green and violet curtains ripple across the night sky, with vertical rays that rise and fall.

Pick snowy biomes only (default) or every night if you want it everywhere.

Fades out while it's raining, like the real thing.

⭐ ROUND STARS — FIXED

Stars were drawn as little white squares: the old code lit up a whole grid cell.

Every star is now a round point with its own size and brightness. The sky finally looks like a sky. 🌠

👁️ EYE ADAPTATION — NEW

Walk into a cave and your eyes slowly adjust to the dark; step back out and the daylight dazzles you for a moment before settling.

It follows the light actually reaching you, and it leaves open nights alone.

🌅 SUNSETS 2.0

A low sun now sets the clouds on fire: molten gold facing the sun, deep mauve behind it, and a burning rim where the light punches through the thin edges.

The light path on water: at sunrise, sunset and moonrise the reflection stops being a dot and stretches across the water in a shimmering road all the way to the shore. 🌊

🐷 BLACK ENTITIES — FIXED

Chests, signs, beds, banners, shulker boxes, bells and lecterns rendered BLACK. They were falling back to the terrain program, which needs a tangent attribute they don't carry — the result was a broken normal and a black block. They have their own program now.

Mobs, players, dropped items and your own hand get the same lighting as the world around them: sky ambient, warm block light, sunset-tinted sun.

Particles (campfire smoke, splashes, crit sparks) share the world's lighting instead of looking pasted on.

The lava / powder snow / fire screen overlay is guaranteed to draw.

Block-breaking cracks, the beacon beam (real HDR light now) and glowing mob eyes got their own programs too.

🎛️ NEW CONTROLS

Glow strength, flickering flames, ore glow, aurora mode and strength, eye adaptation, sunlit clouds and the water light path — all in the in-game menu, in English and Spanish.

The dark has never looked this good. Update now! 🔥

# HyperShader v1.2 — The Elements Update ❄️🔥🌊✨

Four elements. One update. The world just got more alive — and FANCY got FASTER without losing a single pixel of beauty.

## ❄️ Living Snow — NEW!

• When it snows, the world **freezes over**: blocks get a glistening **frost coat** with tiny ice crystals that **sparkle** as you move 💎
• Snowy skies are now **milky white** instead of rain-gray — snowfall finally *feels* like snowfall
• Smart weather: the shader knows if it's raining or snowing where you stand — rain soaks, snow freezes

## 🔥 Heat Haze — NEW!

• The air **shimmers and trembles** above lava — stand at the edge of a lava lake and *feel* the heat
• Only up close (~20 blocks), like a real heat wave — and the **Nether** is a whole new experience with its lava oceans 🌋

## 🌊 Underwater Light Rays — NEW!

• Sunbeams pierce the surface** and follow you while diving — pairs beautifully with the caustics from v1.1 🤿
• Physically-minded: rays fade away in deep water and flooded caves

## 🌙 Moon rays — NEW!

• The moon now casts its own **silver-blue light rays** at night — the same silky god rays you love, tuned for moonlight
• God rays quality maxed by default (16)** in every profile — no profile will lower them anymore

## 🚀 FANCY, now with free FPS

• Relief mapping (POM) now fades with distance**: identical detail up close, zero cost far away
• New **POM distance slider** and a **"Texture relief" toggle** — pick the look you prefer

## 🌍 The menu now speaks your language

• The shader menu **follows your Minecraft language**: English by default, full Spanish included (es_ES / es_MX)

## ✨ Polish everywhere

• Nether portals now glow their true vivid purple in the Nether too** — plus the whole Nether gained bloom: lava and glowstone with a warm halo
• Lily pads fully cleaned up: leaf-shaped shadows, no more ghost squares
• Crisper plant shadows, smarter reflections, powder snow rendered solid, ice no longer glows at night... and a dozen more little fixes

• Winter is coming. So is the heat. Update now! ❄️🔥**

# HyperShader v1.1.0 — The Living Weather Update 🌧️⚡

The biggest update yet: the world now **REACTS to the weather**, the water got a massive glow-up, and shadows went from "nice" to "wait, is that MY shadow?!" — all while staying butter-smooth on low-end PCs. 🥔💨

## 🌧️ Living Weather — NEW!

• The world gets **soaked when it rains**: blocks darken and glisten, and **puddles** form on open ground with real sky reflections and sparkling raindrops 💦
• Raindrops ripple the water** surface while the storm lasts
• Cloud shadows** drift across the terrain — and they match the *exact* clouds above your head ☁️
• Full **storm mood**: overcast gray sky, muted sunlight and gray fog while it rains — the whole world feels the weather
• A **rainbow** 🌈 appears right after the rain stops... and slowly fades away
• Lightning flashes** light up the sky AND the terrain for a split second ⚡

## 🌊 Water 2.0

• Caustics**: dancing threads of light on the bottom — from the surface and while diving 🤿
• Refraction**: the underwater world bends and wobbles through the waves
• Foam** hugging shores and edges
• Reflections rebuilt**: no more streaky artifacts, smooth fade at screen edges, and longer reach at the same FPS cost

## 🌑 Shadows: fixed & sharper

• Fixed the diagonal stripe artifacts** (shadow acne) on sunlit blocks
• Shadows are now so clean that **your own character casts a crisp, visible shadow** — it was always there, now it finally looks right 👤
• Shadow resolution and distance are now adjustable in-game** (up to 3072!) — pick your balance of crisp vs. fast

## ✨ Comfort & Extras

• FXAA** — smooth edges, nearly free 📐
• Profiles: FAST / BALANCED / FANCY** — one click to match your PC 🥔➡️🚀
• Dynamic hand light**: your torch lights the way in the Overworld, the Nether and the End 🔦
• Twinkling stars** — every star flickers with its own rhythm 🌟
• God rays raised to quality 12** by default — silky light shafts in every profile

## 🎛️ More control than ever

• New **WEATHER tab** in the shader menu: toggle every rain effect individually
• 6 new sliders**: puddle amount, cloud shadow darkness, caustics, refraction, hand light and rainbow intensity
• As always: EVERY effect can be tuned or turned off in-game — you are in full control

• Update now and go dance in the rain! ☔**