¶ Welcome to the Community Shaders Features Guide
Welcome to the official Community Shaders User Wiki.
This page outlines all the features currently available in Community Shaders.
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¶ Core Features
¶ A core feature is included with a base install of Community Shaders.
Extended Materials: Terrain and object parallax and other advanced effects
Extended Translucency: Enhanced translucent material rendering
LOD Blending: Fine-tuned control over lighting characteristics of LOD objects and terrain
Performance Overlay: Real-time monitoring of frame rates, draw calls and performance metrics
Volumetric Lighting: Dynamic volumetric lighting effects
Weather Picker & Editor: Custom real-time weather & imagespace editor for all mod-making needs
Dynamic Cubemaps: Real-time reflection mapping for enhanced environmental reflections
Interior Sun Shadows: Advanced shadow casting in interior spaces that changes with time of day
Image Based Lighting: Realistic lighting based on environmental light probes
Light Limit Fix: Removes engine limitations on dynamic light sources, allowing more than 4 lights in view
Water Effects: Advanced water rendering with realistic parallax and caustics
Inverse Square Lighting: Physically accurate light falloff calculation
Subsurface Scattering: Realistic light penetration through translucent materials, used on skin
Grass Collision: Realistic grass interaction and collision detection
Grass Lighting: Improved lighting calculation for vegetation
Screen Space Shadows: Enhanced shadow rendering in screen space
Unified Water: Extends real water tiles into the LOD, eliminating water LOD seams and improving shading in the LOD
Sky Sync: Realistic sun and moon movement through the sky
¶ Additional Features
¶ These features are not included in the base Community Shaders installation and must be downloaded separately. Click each feature name for downloads and detailed information.
Upscaling: Adds DLSS/FSR/XeSS based upscaling suite to Community Shaders
Cloud Shadows: Dynamic cloud shadow casting across the landscape
Hair Specular: Enhanced hair rendering with realistic specular highlights
Screen Space Global Illumination (SSGI): Real-time indirect lighting simulation
Skylighting: Revolutionary world-space sky shadows that increase realism dramatically
Terrain Helper: Allows additional texture layers for non-PBR landscape mods, to allow better optimised maps
Terrain Blending: Blends the terrain into terrain meshes
Terrain Variation: Breaks up vanilla terrain tiling issues without any quality degradation
Wetness Effects: Dynamic surface wetness and rain interaction, custom rain ripples
HDR: Native HDR output for supported displays
¶ Contributing
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