Found Footage Shader — Changelog

v1.0.0 — Initial Release

Released: 2026-02-27

First stable release. This version includes all core effects that transform Minecraft into a found footage horror aesthetic.

World Rendering

Added gbuffers_terrain, gbuffers_water, gbuffers_entities, gbuffers_hand, gbuffers_sky, and gbuffers_clouds pipelines. The world is now fully rendered inside the shader pack without fallback.
Integrated lightmap-based lighting.

Post-Processing — composite pass

Post-Processing — final pass

Camera shake: Smooth noise-based organic camera movement, with independent X and Y axis frequencies.
Analog line jitter: Random horizontal lines shift, with dynamically changing intensity.
Chromatic aberration: R/G/B channels separate horizontally, becoming more pronounced toward screen edges.
Film grain: 4× denser noise in dark areas — paranoia increases as light decreases.
Scanlines: Subtle CRT effect.
Tape dropout: Occasional white horizontal flash line simulating real VHS signal loss.
Light flicker: Micro brightness fluctuations every frame.

HUD Overlays

REC indicator: Blinking red dot and REC label in the top-left corner, ~0.9 Hz frequency.
Timecode stamp: Live counter in MM:SS:FF format at the bottom-right corner in amber color. Handwritten 3×5 pixel bitmap font.

#version 120 — for broad OptiFine/Iris compatibility.
oldHandLight = true and vignette = false settings included in shaders.properties.
All effects are tied to the frameTimeCounter uniform, ensuring consistent timing without looping artifacts.
No external dependencies — works with the vanilla texture pack.

The hand model (gbuffers_hand) may be overly affected by the lightmap in some OptiFine versions, resulting in a visually darker appearance.
Water surface transparency is not fully processed; gbuffers_water currently uses the same shader as terrain.
The timecode starts from frameTimeCounter, meaning it begins counting when the world loads and does not follow the in-game time.

Found Footage Shader — v1.0.0