After two years of literally no updates to this tutorial, I have finally picked up the skills of web development and now you can find this tutorial on my website. However, the code for each shader will remain on this repository.
I probably won't have time to seriously update and maintain this tutorial until the beginning of 2024.
This repository contains information and tutorials on how to write custom shaders for Minecraft using the Optifine mod. The tutorials start at the "Tutorial 0 - Introduction" folder and then the "Tutorial N - ABCD" folders contain information on how to add a certain effect to your shader. The "Tutorial 0 - Introduction" folder is not a shader pack, but the other tutorial folders are. For these tutorials the only requirement is a basic knowledge of graphics programming (you need to know everything up to the concept of rendering to a texture), although I plan to add another tutorial that explains all the basics in detail.
I originally created this project because when I was learning how to write Minecraft shaders, there was little to no information I could find on how to write them. These set of tutorials aims to get rid of that issue for those who want to learn how to write a Minecraft shader.
If you want to contribute your own tutorial, create a pull request. One of my end goals with this project is the turn this into a community effort.
First make sure you have Optifine installed and find your shaderpacks folder.
If you have git installed, first move every shader in your shaderpacks folder to a temporary directory, so you can clone this repository into your shaderpacks folder and move everything back in.
If you do not have git installed, download this repo and move it's files into your shaderpacks folder.
- The Continuum Minecraft shader tutorial, which helped me initially get started on shader programming.
- The shaderLabs Discord server for helping me with my own shader programming.
For questions and concerns regarding this tutorial, please contact me at:
- Discord: @saad.amin