Complementary Shaders 1.17.1 → 1.7.10

Complementary Shaders is a good name for this subtle but powerful shader pack for Minecraft. These shaders are designed to upgrade your game world with new visual elements. A combination of new lighting, shadows, game fog, and performance tweaks puts you in a completely new Vanilla gaming experience.

Utilizing the many features of Vanilla Minecraft, Complementary Shader Pack upgrades the game world with exciting new features. Night-time seems more spooky with heavy fogs rolling in. Luckily, the upgraded moonlight and glow will help guide your path as you venture on.

Enjoy new in-game experiences with upgraded biome atmospheres and lighting. Lava is more vivid than ever. The skies often change and have different appearances based on weather and season. There are bright and beautiful new atmosphere visuals to enjoy.

Apart from a visual overhaul of lighting elements and more, the developers have spent plenty of time optimizing the game on a variety of GPUs and gaming platforms. There are plenty of options to adjust within Optifine settings to get the perfect performance for your machine.

These developers are also very active in the scene and are devoted to assisting you to overcome any errors or issues you face. They are actively updating the shader pack to assist with any in-game errors that may occur as the game continues to update.

Gamers need to keep in mind that to play and use the Complementary Shaders pack, you must have Optifine 1.17.1 or an older version installed in order to load up the shaders properly. After installing Optifine, you will be able to seamlessly use Complementary Shaders within your Minecraft world.

In conclusion, Complementary Shaders does a great job to influence atmospheric changes into the Minecraft world while maintaining great performance levels on your PC. Minecraft can often be taxing on lower-end PC’s, but with this shader pack, you are guaranteed to enjoy a new level of game performance.

Note: Complementary is a Minecraft Java Edition shader pack based on CaptTatsu’s BSL Shaders.

Complementary Shaders — Update Logs

v4.1

• Added back the Colored Shadows option.
• Added support for MC 1.17 powder snow fog effect.
• Added “Extreme” profile.
• Added “Pixelated Shadows” option. Thanks to Capt Tatsu.
• Improved Parallax Self Shadowing. Thanks to null511.
• Improved TAA edge handling.
• Improved color and intensity handling of (projected) caustics.
• Improved the sun/moon glow on light scattering blocks such as leaves and foliage.

v4.0.2:

• Added reflections and stuff for all the remaining Minecraft 1.17 blocks.
• Added an option for emissive nether ores.
• Added a slider for changing the intensity of emissive ores.
• Slightly improved performance in scenes with a bunch of rough reflections.
• Fixed auto-exposure acting a bit weird when looking directly up in The End.
• Fixed incorrect time of day with some mods and their dimensions (only works in Optifine G8 and above. Real-Time Shadows must be enabled).
• Fixed incorrect shadows getting cast by end gateway beams.
• Fixed resource packs being able to completely disable a color when the player is underwater.
• Fixed lava texture being broken with some resource packs.
• Fixed vanilla stars being visible below the horizon.

v4.0.1:

• Fixed flickering enchantment glint on armor pieces.
• Fixed inconsistency of the lighting on translucent overlays from resource packs.
• Fixed inconsistency of Vanilla Skybox Brightness slider values.
• Added more values to some sliders.

Also, all old changelogs are listed here.