Silva Pro
Silva Pro is a lightweight Minecraft shaderpack designed to deliver modern, atmospheric visuals without demanding high-end hardware.
The shader focuses on realistic lighting, soft shadows, natural atmospheric scattering, improved water, procedural clouds, cinematic post-processing, and smooth performance across low-end, integrated, and mid-range GPUs.
Silva Pro uses an optimized GLSL 1.20 pipeline compatible with Iris and OptiFine, keeping the shader accessible to older hardware while still offering higher-quality rendering options for more powerful systems.
Features
- Performance-focused rendering
- Adaptive quality presets
- Realistic Mie + Rayleigh atmospheric scattering
- Natural sunrise and sunset colour
- Improved sun and moon rendering
- Procedural multi-layer clouds
- Improved stars and night sky
- Soft PCF/PCSS shadows
- Coloured shadows
- Improved SSAO
- Full Cook-Torrance specular lighting
- GGX + Smith + Schlick lighting model
- Improved metallic materials
- Foliage subsurface scattering
- Multi-bounce ambient lighting
- Improved torch and lantern lighting
- Animated water waves and ripple normals
- Water refraction and Fresnel reflections
- Depth-based water absorption
- Underwater caustics and distortion
- Optional screen-space reflections
- Improved atmospheric and height fog
- Optional volumetric lighting
- Dual-Kawase bloom
- Adjustable lens-dirt effect
- AgX tone mapping
- Improved FXAA
- AMD CAS adaptive sharpening
- Eye adaptation
- Colour grading
- Triangular dithering
- Animated foliage, crops, vines, fire, and lava
- Wind gusts and weather-reactive vegetation
- Separate lighting behaviour for the Overworld, Nether, and End
- Optimized for Iris and OptiFine
Performance
Silva Pro is built around scalable rendering.
Lower quality levels reduce expensive shader operations such as shadow samples, SSAO samples, SSR steps, cloud detail, and atmosphere integration. Higher quality levels progressively increase visual fidelity for hardware with additional GPU headroom.
This allows Silva Pro to provide a good visual upgrade even on integrated graphics while still offering advanced rendering features for stronger systems.
Compatibility
- Iris
- OptiFine
- GLSL 1.20 / OpenGL 2.1+
- Minecraft 1.16+ through modern versions
Current Release
Silva Pro v1.0.0 — LTS
The v1.0.0 release marks the first stable LTS milestone, bringing major improvements to atmosphere, lighting, shadows, bloom, post-processing, water, and adaptive quality scaling.
Feedback, bug reports, screenshots, and performance reports are welcome.