Super Halftone Shaders für Minecraft 1.20.1, 1.21.1

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🎨 Halftone Shader

• OptiFine / Iris

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🎨 Halftone Shader

Halftone is an experimental Minecraft shader that combines stylized lighting with high-quality shadows, giving the game a more graphic and atmospheric look. It is well suited for screenshots, videos, and unique visual styles without overloading the image with heavy effects.

✨ Key Features

☀️ Dynamic Shadows

The shader uses a full shadow map, rendering the world from the sun’s perspective. Shadows correctly react to the time of day, sun position, and world geometry.

🎨 Colored Shadows

Semi-transparent blocks (such as stained glass) cast colored shadows instead of plain black ones. This adds depth to scenes and makes lighting feel more natural and alive.

🧠 Smart Shadow Bias (Anti-Artifacts)

An adaptive shadow bias system is implemented to:

• eliminate shadow acne (surface noise and flickering),
• reduce the peter panning effect (shadows detaching from objects),
• take the surface angle relative to the sun and shadow distortion settings into account.

A global multiplier is also available and can be adjusted in the shader settings menu.

🔍 Shadow Distortion

To maintain performance while improving visual quality:

• shadows have a higher resolution near the player,
• and a lower resolution at greater distances.

This results in sharper shadows around the player without requiring extremely high shadow map resolutions.

⚙️ Flexible Configuration

The shader provides several parameters that affect the visual style:

• shadow strength and softness
• shadow map distortion intensity
• shadow behavior on different surface angles

The screenshots showcase different presets, demonstrating how the settings can change the atmosphere — from soft and clean to more contrast-heavy and expressive.

🖥️ Performance

Halftone is designed for mid-range and low-end PCs:

• no heavy post-processing effects,
• optimized shadow rendering,
• minimal FPS impact compared to large shader packs.

📦 Compatibility

• OptiFine / Iris
• Compatible with most resource packs
• Does not modify blocks or textures