Forget-me-not is a semi-realistic pipeline shader for the Canvas mod. It's designed to give the most authentic and immersive experience while sticking to "traditional" rendering methods to keep up good performance.
Canvas is a client-side renderer mod that uses shaders for advanced rendering with the goal of having a modern and very flexible design for high performance and better readability. The shader system is entirely different from Optifine and Iris & Sodium and as such, Forget-me-not won't work with any of these mods! See the how to use section for installation instructions.
If you're a developer or mod hoster, Forget-me-not is licensed under the LGPL v3.0, so please make sure to read over the terms of the LGPL if you use any of Forget-me-not's original code or distribute it.
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Be sure you're on 1.19.4 or above. Support is not guaranteed for versions that Canvas doesn't actively support.
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Install Fabric.
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Get Canvas Renderer mod through Modrinth. Keep in mind that Canvas does not work with Sodium, Iris, OptiFine, or OptiFabric.
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Download your preferred pipeline shaderpack. If you're looking for alternatives to Forget-me-not, try out Lumi Lights, Lomo (not for gameplay as of this writing), or Aerie (vanilla-plus, wip).
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Launch your game, put your downloaded
.zipfile into yourresourcepacksfolder and activate the resource pack. (Don't extract it!) -
Navigate to
Options / Video Settings / Canvas / Pipeline Options / Pipelinesand select the pipeline that you want to play with.
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Experiencing bad shadow outcomes? In
Options / Video Settings / Canvas / Debug, setShadow Priming StrategytoTIEREDandDisable Shadow Self-Occlusionto true. -
Does Canvas say in chat that some shaders are broken? Please grab your log in
.minecraft/logs/latest.logand all contents of the.minecraft/canvas_shader_debug/folder and either make an issue on GitHub or let me know about it on Discord. -
Does every Canvas pipeline break other than Canvas Basic? If so, your device is probably incompatible with Fabulous graphics, which most Canvas pipelines use. Unfortunately, there's no fix for this.
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seasons! be immersed in your world as the seasons change over time
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HDR, bloom, and tone mapping
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dramatic skies with atmospheric scattering and custom realistic clouds
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water waves and reflections
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support for PBR, with hundreds of built-in default materials
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contact-hardening variable penumbra shadows
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advanced anti-aliasing (TAA)
Forget-me-not wouldn't be nearly as polished as it is if it weren't for the help of people like fewizz, spiralhalo, Grondag, and many others from the Canvas community for contributing and testing. Many thanks to:
- The shaderLABS discord channel #snippets for many useful code snippets
- Lumi Lights by spiralhalo for lots of different inspiration & help, and also references for a working TAA implementation
- lomo by fewizz for inspiration for many different things, as well as the raytracer and lots of invaluable contributions
- @jahan.artt for the icon!