Zayko Shaders

Overhauled Settings Menu

Overhauled Water

• Gerstner Waves = realistic ocean-style waves with horizontal displacement
• Shore Foam = white foam where water meets terrain
• Depth-Based Colouring = deeper water appears darker/more saturated
• Rain Ripples = circular ripple distortion on water surface during rain

Overall Code Improvements to Increase FPS (exp. Removed Unnecessary duplicate code 40 or so lines)

Added New Auroras along with rarities

• Teal/Green/Yellow = 60% Chance of Appearing
• Red/Crimson = 20% Chance of Appearing
• Golden = 12% Chance of Appearing
• White/Silver = 8% Chance of Appearing

Added Nebula with Rarity System

• Always (every night)
• Common 75% Chance of Appearing
• Uncommon 37% Chance of Appearing
• Rare = 25% Chance of Appearing

Added Multiple Aurora Visual Improvements

• Dual-ribbon curtain = creates separation with vertical fold distortion
• Temporal pulsation = slow breathing that varies
• lit depth falloff = Brighter at base fading upwards like irl

Added Partial Screen-Space Contact Shadows (WIP - Disabled by Default)

Added Fun Effects (Replacing Extra Category in Settings)

• Negative World = inverts all colors like a photo negative
• Psychedelic = continuously shifts all hues over time with adjustable speed
• Earthquake = terrain shakes with sinusoidal waves, adjustable strength
• Hologram Entities = sci-fi holograms with blue tint, scanlines, and glow + Glitch Effect = RGB splitting, scanline displacement, and block artifacts
  • Old Film = 1920s cinema look with sepia, scratches, flicker, and vignette
  • Thermal Vision = thermal heat palette based on brightness
  • Thermal Vision = thermal heat palette based on brightness
  • CRT Monitor = old CRT display with scanlines, barrel distortion

Added Rain on Lens (WIP - Disabled by Default)

Added More Settings that trigger depending on specific preset

Added Adaptive Shadow Sampling

Added Blood Moon

• Red tinted lighting during moon phase 4
• Red fog tint at night during blood moon
• Activates only at night, blends out at sunrise

Added Adaptive Raytrace Stepping

Added full PCSS Shadows (Ultra Only)

Added Mirror Mode (WIP - Disabled by Default)

• Glass blocks become full mirrors
• Stained glass becomes tinted mirrors
• Uses existing reflection system (SSR)

Changed File Name Layout from "Zayko Shaders V7.1" to "Zayko V7.1"

Changed Enhanced Light Shaft Colouring

Changed Screen-Space Global Illumination (SSGI)

Changed Clouds base style

• Base Shape: Perlin
• Density: Low
• Amount: Few

Improved Setting Screen

• SHADOW-QUALITY and CONTACT-SHADOWS to Shadow Config
• SSGI to Lighting Config

Improved Temporal Dither as well as TAA Dither

Improved Volumetric light Sample Scaling

Improved Cloud Sample Scaling

Removed Old Nebulas to implement our new one!

Removed Certain Effects in the End for V7.2 Update