!Overview

SalicylicLite

SalicylicLite is a performance-oriented variant of SalicylicShaders, designed for lower-end and mid-range hardware. It preserves the core lighting, fog, and color grading of the full pack while removing or simplifying the most expensive rendering features, resulting in significantly improved frame rates with minimal visual compromise.

Key Differences from SalicylicShaders

Feature	SalicylicShaders	SalicylicLite
Water	Dynamic reflective water	Flat, non-reflective water
Clouds	Volumetric clouds	Vanilla cloud rendering
Shadows	Full-resolution, long-distance	Low-resolution, short-distance
Reflections	Full surface reflection sampling	Reduced across all surfaces
Lighting & Fog	Full atmosphere stack	Same core tuning, lower cost

Overview

Lite is intended for users who want the visual identity of SalicylicShaders its lighting behavior, atmosphere, and color palette without the rendering cost of reflective surfaces and volumetric effects. It is well suited to lower-end systems, larger modpacks with limited performance headroom, and any setup where frame rate takes priority over surface fidelity.

Cool Features

The retro/glitch effects panel from the full pack is included unchanged, offering old TV, CRT flicker, letterbox, VHS, and digital glitch effects with the same adjustable controls. These effects carry negligible rendering cost and are unaffected by the Lite optimizations.

License

Released under the MIT License, permitting free use, modification, and distribution.