About this Project
This is a rather unique pack among all the Minecraft shaderpacks using voxels and path-/ray-tracing, since it has a strong focus on a rather soft and aesthetically pleasing lighting, as well as competitive performance. In order to achieve these things it completely ditches the traditional shadowmap for dynamic shadows and instead it fully relies on a solution that is a mix of a light-propagation-volume (or short LPV) and path-tracing. This produces fairly fast and performant lighting, which is a perfect fit for the overall visual goal of a softly lit world. This is accompanied by a unique skybox as well, which produces more of an overcast and cloudy look than other packs usually do, which also sets it apart from other shaderpacks with a more realistic goal.
Soft Voxels is available for Tier 2 Patrons (5€) with the lite edition being available on curseforge.
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Supporter Updates 2025-04
I’ve released a few quality of life improvements for my path traced packs in the last month, so I figured it’d be good to give you a bit of an overview.
Development Update – April 2025
It’s time to go through some new stuff again, especially when it comes to my lower end packs like Potato- and Simplicissimus Shaders as I have a few plans to bring those more up to speed soon.
Supporter Updates 2025-03
I realised that it’s been quite a while since I last compiled complete changelogs of the updates to my paid packs here, so I figured I should catch up on that.
Development Update – January-March 2025
It’s been a while since the last devblog as I’ve been dealing with a lot of other things in my life for the last few months, but there are also many new shaderpack things to go through now.
Development Update – February 2024
It is once again time to go through some new stuff, and I’ve finally managed to get another major thing from my to-do list done when it comes to KappaPT.
Development Update – January 2024
I hope that you all had a good start into the new year and that you’re ready for some more updates and such :P
Supporter Updates 2023-12
I’ve finally added support for The End to Soft Voxels (this has really been long overdue).
Development Update – July 2023
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.
Supporter Updates 2023-06
Both NostalgiaVX and Soft Voxels have received some interesting updates, and that also includes the long awaited (by some of you at the very least) support for handheld emitters.
Soft Voxels Lite v2.0
It is finally time for a new version of Soft Voxels Lite, which features a lot of improvements I’ve made since the last release though the Lite edition remains compatible with OptiFine, unlike the full version of Soft Voxels.