Photonics: A Raytracing Engine Mod

An Iris extension mod that enhanced Iris Rendering with a fully custom Raytracing solution. With its focus on performance, Photonics is able to run 2-3 faster compared to similar projects.

Notice

This mod is in early Beta and bugs and compatibility issues are expected. This mod has been tested and validated on modern AMD GPU's. Compatiblity can vary from GPU vendor, GPU Driver Version and Operating System. Any mods that modify the behavior of Minecraft Rendering will affect compatibility.

Supported Shaderpacks

BSL v8.2.09 (exact!)

Requirements

Features

Photonics adds many visual effects that would not be possible without it's custom Raytracing engine:

Shadow-casting Light Sources: Every block casts shadows from every light source, resulting in realistic scenes full of crispy shadows.

Each light source emits shadows

Path Traced Block Lights: Enjoy the beautiful lighting of dozens of colored blocks

Enjoy the beautiful lighting of dozens of colored blocks

Path Traced Global Illumination (PTGI): Thanks to the power of Raytracing, occluded spots are subject to realistic lighting.

Trees are highly occluded, thus highly shadowed

3D Blocks: Since the Raytracing Engine is based on voxels, it fully supports any type of 16x16x16 block models. Custom Models can also be implemented using MagicaVoxel.

Any block model can be altered to look more 3D-ish

Development

Updates on the Development can be seen on my Twitter Account: EnginePhotonic

Photonics: A raytracing engine

Compatibility

Minecraft: Java Edition

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