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What is the Kappa Shader?

A Minecraft shaderpack that aims towards a realistic, but also authentic look. So it is not plainly using physically accurate vales and equations like many other packs do. Instead, while still using many accurate calculations, it is tweaked to reproduce what you could observe in nature, which usually goes beyond just having equations to describe most phenomenons. A version of this pack with path-traced lighting also exists in the shape of KappaPT.
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Development Update – July 2023

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It’s time to recap some updates again (of which there have been quite a lot in the last month) and there are also a few more upcoming updates that I have planned.

Development Update – June 2023

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There have been various updates in the last month as most of you will have noticed based on the wave of releases that most of my free packs have experienced, and there are more to come soon.

Kappa Shader v5.1 – Bugfixes over Bugfixes

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It’s time for another Kappa Shader update. This was originally supposed to be version 5.0b, but as changed started to add up it became more than just a minor bugfix update, although there are a lot of bugs that have been fixed with this version.

Development Update – February 2023

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It is once again time to go through some updates again, which should be quite interesting this time thanks to the revival of FastPBR and the recent Iris-exclusive updates of Soft Voxels.

Development Update – January 2023

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It’s a new year and time for some updates again, and as Iris 1.5 has recently been released things might get very interesting from now on as I can start leveraging a lot of new features and rendering tricks

Kappa Shader v5.0a

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It’s time for a minor update of Kappa Shader, as there have been a few bugs that I missed in the release of 5.0, specifically some issues with nVidia drivers which were quite annoying to figure out.