Iris is committed to ensuring mod compatibility as a first priority, and is already compatible with many of your favorite mods!
Iris has been built from the ground up to be extensible and easy to update. Say goodbye to weeks of waiting to use shaders on the new Minecraft version!
Iris is an open source mod that anyone can contribute to. This allows Iris to improve by facilitating collaboration.
Iris aims to have full support for all past and present OptiFine
shaderpacks, and number of packs supported by Iris is constantly
and rapidly growing!
Screenshot by IMS, Kappa v5
Iris is compatible with CaffeineMC optimization mods such as
Sodium and Phosphor, enabling stunning graphics at frames
comparable to or even better than vanilla.
Screenshot by IMS, Nostalgia v4
Iris uses a technique called Shadow Frustum Culling to
decrease the overhead of one of the biggest performance hogs
of a shader - the shadows. Using Iris's shadow frustum
culling, you'll be able to reach higher frame rates
without sacrificing the quality of volumetric lighting or
shadows.
Screenshot by IMS, Kappa v5
Iris improves the way that Minecraft renders entities and
block entities like chests, pigs, and item frames. This trick
even works with shaders disabled, and in worlds with a lot of
entities, it can boost vanilla performance by up to 60
percent. Shadow rendering sees an especially large
improvement, making areas that were once unplayable with
shaders into places where your FPS is surprisingly smooth!
Screenshot by kinzuu_music
The Iris Project is a collaborative open-source project created by a team of passionate developers seeking to make the Minecraft shaders experience the best that it can be. Iris is developed by the community, for the community.
