option.AEROCHROME_MODE.comment = Infrared Film. Google "Aerochrome" to get an idea of what it does.
option.AEROCHROME_PINKNESS.comment = Higher = Pink. Lower = Red
option.AEROCHROME_WOOL_ENABLED.comment = Technically wool things should be affected but it ruins a lot of builds. Enable to be more technically correct.
option.SCREENSPACE_CONTACT_SHADOWS.comment = §bWhat is this?§r These are shadows for things that are far away, and on small details nearby. §aPERFORMANCE COST:§r low to medium; it is more expensive at higher resolutions.
option.RENDER_ENTITY_SHADOWS.comment = §bWhat is this?§r Shadows on all types of entities, like mobs, chests, banners, or signs. §aPERFORMANCE COST:§r low to high; it is very expensive when there are many entities nearby.
option.shadowMapResolution.comment = The quality of shadows from the sun casted by things in the world. §aPERFORMANCE COST:§r medium to very high; Shadows must render the 3D world a second time from the perspective of the sun, this is why it cuts performance in half.
option.shadowDistance.comment = The maximum distance the shadowmap can render. The distance is not measured linearly in chunks when set to un-optimized. §aPERFORMANCE COST:§r medium to very high; If the chunk render distance is high, the shadows will become more expensive.
option.OPTIMIZED_SHADOW_DISTANCE.comment = Render the shadows only in a sphere around you, limited to a max distance in chunks. Un-optimized does not render the shadows in a sphere and is not locked to chunks; it can cover alot more area with the same distance settings. The distance is not measured in chunks when set to un-optimized. §aPERFORMANCE COST:§r low to medium. Optimized is faster, and unoptimized is slower.
screen.Filtering.comment = Configure the filtering effects applied to the shadows.
option.SHADOW_FILTER_SAMPLE_COUNT.comment = The quality of the basic shadow filter. This filter just softens the shadows. §aPERFORMANCE COST:§r low to medium; Increasing this should reduce some noise at the edge of shadows.
option.Min_Shadow_Filter_Radius.comment = The maximum softness of the basic shadow filter.
option.Variable_Penumbra_Shadows.comment = This effect softens the shadows more and more the farther the shadow gets from what casted it. This effect is used to create higher quality shadows and Sub-surface scattering. §aPERFORMANCE COST:§r low to high;
option.VPS_Search_Samples.comment = The quality of the variable penumbra shadow filter. §aPERFORMANCE COST:§r low to high; Increasing this should reduce some noise in the sub-surface scattering and very soft shadows.
option.Max_Shadow_Filter_Radius.comment = The maximum softness the shadows can get when far away from what casted it.
screen.Ambient_light.comment = Configure settings related to the lighting in shaded places
option.AO_Strength.comment = Configure the strength of the ambient occlusion created by SSAO, GTAO, RTAO, and SSGI. §bWhat is this?§r ambient occlusion is the small soft shadows in corners and such.
option.GI_Strength.comment = Configure the strength of the global illumination created by SSGI. §bWhat is this?§r global illumination in this scenario specifically is the light bouncing off a surface and onto some other area.
option.HQ_SSGI.comment = Toggle long range screen-space global illumination. §aPERFORMANCE COST:§r very high
option.Hand_Held_lights.comment = Toggle shader-side hand held lightsources. §aPERFORMANCE COST:§r very low
option.SKY_CONTRIBUTION_IN_SSRT.comment = Allow the RTAO or SSGI to take the entire sky and fog into account to create high quality lighting for shaded areas. This may introduce more noise. §aPERFORMANCE COST:§r medium
option.ambientOcclusionLevel.comment = Configure the strength of the ambient occlusion from vanilla minecraft. §bWhat is this?§r This ambient occlusion is in minecraft even without shaders enabled.
option.ambient_brightness.comment = Configure the brightnes of lighting in shaded places
option.MIN_LIGHT_AMOUNT.comment = Configure the minimum amount of light that can be in shaded places.
option.indirect_effect.comment = Toggle different types of effects to make lighting in shaded places higher quality. §aPERFORMANCE COSTS:§r. Vanilla AO: very low. SSAO: low to medium. GTAO: medium to high. RTAO or SSGI: high to very high
screen.Ambient_Colors.comment = Configure the color of light in shaded areas.
screen.Torch_Colors.comment = Configure the color of light from torches or other placed lightsources.
screen.Reflections.comment = Configure the reflections that use information provided by a LabPBR resourcepack.
option.Specular_Reflections.comment = Toggle all reflections for Labpbr packs. This enables the sun reflection, and allows other settings to be enabled below. §aPERFORMANCE COST:§r low
option.Screen_Space_Reflections.comment = Toggle screen-space reflections. §aPERFORMANCE COST:§r medium
option.Rough_reflections.comment = Toggle more detailed roughness for higher quality reflection. This will cause a good amount of visible noise. §aPERFORMANCE COST:§r medium to high
option.Sky_reflection.comment = Toggle reflections of the sky and fog. §aPERFORMANCE COST:§r low to medium.
option.Dynamic_SSR_quality.comment = This lowers the quality of screen-space reflections based on how visible they are. it can improve performance but lower the quality.
option.Roughness_Threshold.comment = If the roughness reaches this threshold, all reflections except the sun do not render. it can improve performance.
option.Sun_specular_Strength.comment = Configure how bright the sun's reflection is.
option.reflection_quality.comment = Configure the quality of the screen-space reflections.
screen.Subsurface_Scattering.comment = §bWhat is this?§r Sub-surface scattering is what happens when you put a bright light on your hand, and it starts to glow. The sun actually does the same thing to plants, cloth, skin, and other things.
option.SSS_TYPE.comment = Configure how the sub-surface scattering is applied to the world. §bHardcoded:§r The shader decides what gets it. §bLabSSS:§r The resourcepack decides what gets it. §aPERFORMANCE COST:§r very low
option.MOB_SSS.comment = Toggle sub-surface scattering for mobs. players are included. §aPERFORMANCE COST:§r very low
option.MISC_BLOCK_SSS.comment = Toggle sub-surface scattering for random blocks it may not fit. this is for grass and sand mostly. §aPERFORMANCE COST:§r very low
option.Ambient_SSS.comment = §bWhat is this?§r sub-surface scattering from light coming from the sky, instead of the sun. §aPERFORMANCE COST:§r very low to medium; if SSAO is enabled this costs very little, but costs more if SSAO is OFF
option.ambientsss_brightness.comment = Configure the brightness of sub-surface scattering from the sky's light
screen.Emissives.comment = §bWhat is this?§r Emissiveness is just how much light something is letting off, or how much something is glowing.
option.Emissive_Brightness.comment = Configure how bright the texture emission should be.
option.EMISSIVE_TYPE.comment = Configure how texture emission is applied to the world. §bHardcoded:§r The shader decides what gets it. §bLabSSS:§r The resourcepack decides what gets it. §aPERFORMANCE COST:§r very low
option.Emissive_Curve.comment = This determines how quickly the emissive texture reaches its brightest point. 1.0 is linear.
screen.POM.comment = Configure settings related to parallax occlusion mapping that uses information provided by a resourcepack.
option.POM.comment = §bWhat is this?§r This effect attempts to create 3D geometry where there previously was none, by using a special image from a resourcepack. This effect basically only pushes inwards, so some artifacts can exist when looking at steep angles. §aPERFORMANCE COST:§r medium to high
option.MAX_ITERATIONS.comment = Configure the quality of the parallax occlusion mapping effect. if you see individual layers when looking up close, inscreasing this makes more layers, so they will become harder to see. §aPERFORMANCE COST:§r high
option.POM_DEPTH.comment = How deep the parallax occlusion mapping effect can go into a surface. §aPERFORMANCE COST:§r very low
option.MAX_DIST.comment = The maximum distance from the camera that the parallax occlusion mapping effect can render. §aPERFORMANCE COST:§r high
option.Adaptive_Step_length.comment = This will increase visual quality without needing to increase the actual quality. This causes some artifacts if you look really close, or have a very busy heightmap with sharp varying heights.
option.Horrible_slope_normals.comment = This is a poorly done implementation to give a surface to the sides of the parallax occlusion mapping. i do not recommend this. §aPERFORMANCE COST:§r low
screen.Porosity.comment = Configure settings related to wetness and puddles
option.Porosity.comment = §bWhat is this?§r Porosity is a description of how porous some material is, or essentially how much water can be held inside it. for examle, sponges are very porous; water is contained within and darkens it as a results. §aPERFORMANCE COST:§r low
option.Puddles.comment = Toggle puddles for when it rains. §aPERFORMANCE COST:§r low
option.Puddle_Size.comment = Configure the size of the puddles.
screen.Fog.comment = Configure settings related to the raymarched volumetric fog, or distance based fog.
option.VL_RENDER_RESOLUTION.comment = Configure the resolution of the volumetric fog. §aPERFORMANCE COST:§r high
option.VL_SAMPLES.comment = Configure the quality of the volumetric fog. §aPERFORMANCE COST:§r high
option.BLOOMY_FOG.comment = Configure the strength of bloom that is applied to fog. §bWhat is this?§r This effect makes the fog look soft, it helps hide a little noise too. can cause some visible flickering on detailed edges. §aPERFORMANCE COST:§r very low
option.Haze_amount.comment = Configure how dense the atmosphere around you is. §bWhat is this?§r This is the blue haze you see in the distance.
option.RainFog_amount.comment = Configure how dense the fog gets when it rains.
option.RAYMARCH_CLOUDS_WITH_FOG.comment = §cWARNING§r: This setting is experimental and not very well made! you will need to increase fog samples to make it match the normal clouds. Toggle detailed fog when you go within or around a cloud. §aPERFORMANCE COST:§r high.
option.BorderFog.comment = §bWhat is this?§r Toggle a fog that attempts to hide the chunks loading in. But because the sky is all over the place, it is difficult to do well. §aPERFORMANCE COST:§r very very low
screen.TOD_fog.comment = Configure the density of fog that appears at specific times of the day.
option.TOD_Fog_mult.comment = Configure how much total fog there is that appears at specific times during the day. this does not effect the atmospheric haze.
screen.Cave_Fog.comment = Configure settings for fog that appears when you are in very dark places such as caves.
option.Cave_Fog.comment = Toggle the fog that appears in dark places. It is impossible to accurately tell when you are in a cave with a shader, so this fog might appear in places that are not a cave. §aPERFORMANCE COST:§r low
option.CaveFogFallOff.comment = Configure how quickly the fog gradient reaches its brightest part.
screen.Clouds.comment = Configure settings related to the raymarched volumetric clouds.
option.VOLUMETRIC_CLOUDS.comment = Toggle the clouds. §aPERFORMANCE COST:§r medium to high
option.CLOUDS_QUALITY.comment = Configure the resolution of the volumetric clouds. §aPERFORMANCE COST:§r high
option.CLOUDS_SHADOWS.comment = Toggle shadows that are casted from the clouds onto the ground, and fog below them. §aPERFORMANCE COST:§r low to medium
option.Daily_Weather.comment = Toggle the weather that changes every day. §bWhat is this?§r There are 10 weather profiles that the shader cycles through every day. You cannot change any cloud coverage settings when this is enabled. §aPERFORMANCE COST:§r low
option.CHOOSE_RANDOM_WEATHER_PROFILE.comment = §bWhat is this?§r Configure the shader to randomly choose the weather from one of the days below. When this is turned off, the shader will choose the day in order.
option.WATER_REFLECTIONS.comment = Toggle all reflections for translucent things. This allows other settings to be enabled below. §aPERFORMANCE COST:§r low-high
option.Refraction.comment = Toggle refraction on translucent things. §bWhat is this?§r If you look at water, you can see the light refracting distorts what is in it. §aPERFORMANCE COST:§r low
option.PER_BIOME_ENVIRONMENT.comment = Toggle all special environments that only appear in some biomes. §aPERFORMANCE COST:§r low
screen.SWAMP.comment = Configure the environment in this biome type.
option.SWAMP_ENV.comment = Toggle the environment only for this biome type. The other biome environments remain active even if this one is disabled.
screen.JUNGLE.comment = Configure the environment in this biome type.
option.JUNGLE_ENV.comment = Toggle the environment only for this biome type. The other biome environments remain active even if this one is disabled.
screen.DARKFOREST.comment = Configure the environment in this biome type.
option.DARKFOREST_ENV.comment = Toggle the environment only for this biome type. The other biome environments remain active even if this one is disabled.
screen.Waving_Stuff.comment = Configure settings related to waving things.
option.WAVY_PLANTS.comment = Toggle waving plants. §aPERFORMANCE COST:§r very low
option.WAVY_STRENGTH.comment = Configure the amount the plants wave.
option.WAVY_SPEED.comment = Configure the speed the plants wave.
screen.Post_Processing.comment = Configure settings for all post processing effects, from anti aliasing to tonemapping.
screen.Tonemapping.comment = Configure settings related to color and tonemapping.
screen.Exposure.comment = Configure settings related to the exposure.
screen.DepthOfField.comment = Configure settings related to depth of field.
screen.Purkinje_effect.comment = Configure settings related to the purkinje effect.
option.SHARPENING.comment = Configure the amount of contrast adapitive sharpening that is applied to the image. This can really bring out lost details from anti-aliasing or upscaling.
option.BLOOM_STRENGTH.comment = Configure the amount of bloom that is applied to the image. §bWhat is this?§r Bloom is the soft glow on everything, to describe that something is bright or not.
screen.TAA_OPTIONS.comment = Configure settings related to anti-aliasing.
option.SCREENSHOT_MODE.comment = Toggle frame accumulation to get a low noise and high quality image. §bWhat is this?§r It stacks frames that happend onto the next frame that is generated, so it is like a long exposure photo.
option.TAA.comment = Toggle temporal anti-aliasing. This removes all jagged edges on things, softens the image, and helps remove noise for many effects. This will cause ghosting or trailing because it uses past frames for extra information on the world. §aPERFORMANCE COST:§r low
option.BLEND_FACTOR.comment = Configure how much of frame history is used. high numbers means it relies less on frame history, so it may look flickery and noisy. low numbers rely more on frame history, so it may look less moisy, but more smudged with more trailing.
option.TAA_UPSCALING.comment = Toggle temporal upscaling. This retains a good amount of quality from a lower resolution image when it upscales. so you can still have a high looking resolution compared to typical upsanpling and still have better performance.
option.SCALE_FACTOR.comment = Configure from what fraction of your resolution to upscale from. Below 0.5 is not recommended at all i only have it as an option because it's funny :P
option.RESOURCEPACK_SKY.comment = Toggle resourcepack sky support. Configure settings to use the whole resourcepack sky, or keep the shader's sun and moon. §aPERFORMANCE COST:§r very low
option.MOONPHASE_BASED_MOONLIGHT.comment = §bWhat is this?§r every night, the moon has different lighting. This setting adjusts the moonlight brightness based on how much of the moon is glowing. §aPERFORMANCE COST:§r nearly nothing
option.END_STORM_DENSTIY.comment = §bWhat is this?§r This is the dark cloudy fog in the end. Confingure the density of the end storm.
option.NETHER_PLUME_DENSITY.comment = §bWhat is this?§r This is the thick, glowing smoke towers in the nether. Confingure the density of the nether smoke.
option.SKY_GROUND.comment = §bWhat is this?§r This is the dark bottom half of the sky that WOULD be the ground, if minecraft had infinite render distance. §aPERFORMANCE COST:§r very very low. §cdisabling this is very slightly slower than having it on due to extra math.§r
option.SNELLS_WINDOW.comment = §bWhat is this?§r this is the dark reflective circle you see when under-water. This is an approximation of a thing that happens in reality known as "total internal reflection". §aPERFORMANCE COST:§r very very very small.
option.entityShadowDistanceMul.comment = §bWhat is this?§r Configure how far shadows should work for entities. This is good if you want to keep entity shadows and improved performance in high entity areas.
option.DISTANT_HORIZONS_SHADOWMAP = §c(DO NOT USE IF YOU DO NOT KNOW WHAT THIS IS)§r DH shadowmap support
option.DISTANT_HORIZONS_SHADOWMAP.comment = §cTHIS SETTING WILL DESTROY PERFORMANCE THIS WILL MAKE SHADOWS LOOK BLOCKY, FLICKERY, AND LOW DETAIL§r. set shadow distance to 32 chunks (or more). set shadow resolution to 4096 (or more)
option.TRANSLUCENT_COLORED_SHADOWS.comment = §bWhat is this?§r This effect allows translucent things like stained glass to color the sunlight as it passes through it. §aPERFORMANCE COST:§r medium
