Photonics: A raytracing engine
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A ray-traced voxel engine with a focus on performance and crisp shadows
Does not follow a specific thematic focus apart from vanilla Minecraft.
Used for mods with little to no gameplay elements.
Improves the visual aspects of the game with better textures, models, etc.
Improves or modifies the game's lighting.
Adds extra features or content to an existing mod.
Fabric is a mod loader for versions 1.14+ of Minecraft, particularly popular for client side and optimization mods.
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Photonics: A Raytracing Mod
An Iris extension that adds voxel based raytracing to Minecraft. With a focus on performance, Photonics is able to deliver performance comparable to that of hardware raytracing.
Shaders that support Photonics:
- Euphoria Patches (requires 1.9.0+ and Photonics v0.3.4+)
- Photon (requires latest from Github & Photonics v0.3.4+)
- Eclipse (requires latest version from Github & Photonics v0.3.4)
- Shrimple (requires latest from GIthub & Photonics v0.3.4+)
Support patched in by the photonics mod:
- BSL (Photonics v0.3.0+ requires 10.1+, v0.2.9 or below requires 8.2.9)
Features
By using it's custom voxel raytracing, Photonics adds many visually stunning effects:
Soft Shadows
Every block casts beautiful soft shadows from block lights!
Global Illumination
Tired of how dull the world is in shadow? Worry not! Photonics adds accurate Global Illumination to shadows.
3D Blocks
Using its voxel raytracing, Photonics can render 16x16x16 block models directly!
Custom Models can also be implemented using MagicaVoxel.
Colored Glass Lighting
Photonics can tint the color of light that passes through glass, casting colored shadows over objects.
Up to 20 lights per chunk
By default, traces 20 lights per chunk, with shader settings allowing you to increase that number to 100!
Notice
- Photonics doesn't utilise Hardware Raytracing, and because Minecraft is built on OpenGL, building in Hardware Raytracing is unfortunately not possible
- This mod is still in Alpha, bugs and compatibility issues are to be expected
- Any mod that modifies Minecraft Rendering/Chunk loading will affect compatibility
- MacOS is not supported!
Development
Updates on the Development can be seen on its Discord server: Photonics Official
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A thousand shadows Each light source emits a crisp, colored shadow -
Path-Traced Global Illumination Even the sky sends out light, making blocks in shadow visible. Very hard to calculate, very good looking. -
Complex 3D Models Photonic adds support for 16x16x16 Block models -
Colored lights Explore the beauty of all the colorful lights -
Cave exploration made easy Light sources held in hand illuminate everything around you.
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