Serie

Serie is the path-traced successor to Allium and will serve as the base rewrite for allium's upcoming versions.

IMPORTANT

Serie is under active development. Expect settings, buffer layouts, and visual behavior to change between builds, as well as bugs!

About Minecraft 26.x and Vulkan

The latest beta version should support 26.x versions of Minecraft using Iris and OpenGL as the Graphics API. Vulkan is planned but I have no idea as to when I will be able to work on Vulkan Support. Probably until Aperture is released :p

Requirements

• Minecraft Java Edition
• A recent version of Iris Shaders
• A GPU and driver with OpenGL 4.3 support
• Iris custom-image support (required by the voxel and irradiance-cache volumes)
• Distant Horizons is optional

Serie is developed for Iris. OptiFine is NOT supported.

Current features

• Path-traced lighting
• Atmospheric scattering
• Volumetric light shafts
• Volumetric cumulus clouds
• A separate volumetric altocumulus layer
• Water parallax and vertex displacement
• Screen-space refraction and reflection
• Generated normals and refraction handling for glass and ice
• Distant Horizons Support (working on voxy soon)
• Integrated PBR (LabPBR not yet available)
• Temporal anti-aliasing and temporal upscaling
• Bloom
• Automatic exposure
• Multiple tone-mapping operators

Installation

Release build

1. Download a ZIP from the repository's Releases page.
2. Place the ZIP in your Minecraft shaderpacks directory.
3. Open Minecraft with Iris installed.
4. Select Serie from Options → Video Settings → Shader Packs.

Do not extract a release ZIP unless its outer archive contains another shaderpack folder or ZIP.

Latest repository build

1. Select Code → Download ZIP on the GitHub repository. (or git clone)
2. Extract the downloaded repository archive.
3. Place the folder containing shaders/, README.md, and License.txt in your shaderpacks directory.

Repository builds contain the newest changes and may be less stable than releases.

Reporting bugs

Please open an issue on the GitHub Issues page and include:

• A concise description of the problem
• Steps and a location/scene that reproduce it
• Minecraft, Iris, loader, and mod versions
• GPU model and driver version
• The active Serie settings or an exported shader configuration
• Screenshots or video when the issue is visual
• latest.log when the pack fails to load or reports a shader compilation error

Before reporting a visual artifact, test once with default settings and confirm whether Distant Horizons or another rendering mod is involved.

Development status

The repository branch is the active development version. Stable builds, when available, are published through GitHub Releases.

Contributions and focused bug reports are welcome. When changing shader code, test at multiple render scales, during camera motion, at day/night transitions, underwater, and with Distant Horizons both enabled and disabled.