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Lumina Shader

Cinematic shaders for Minecraft Java featuring a black hole and white hole in the End, atmospheric lighting, volumetric clouds, water reflections and…

ShadersFree1.8 – 26.x
by Benjiaa · listed from Modrinth
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What it does

Lumina Shader is a shader pack made by Benjiaa. Cinematic shaders for Minecraft Java featuring a black hole and white hole in the End, atmospheric lighting, volumetric clouds, water reflections and…

It supports Minecraft 1.8 – 26.x. It has been downloaded 198,824 times on Modrinth. The last update came out on Sep 20, 2026.

Supported versions

26.x1.211.201.191.181.171.161.131.121.8

Release history

Lumina Shader has had 14 releases on Modrinth since Mar 8, 2026. 14 of them came out in the past year. The newest is 1.3.9, released on Sep 20, 2026. It is made for Minecraft 1.10 – 1.20.3. It runs on Iris and Optifine. The download is 484 KB.

VersionReleasedMinecraftType
1.3.9Sep 20, 20261.10 – 1.20.3Release
1.3.81Aug 17, 20261.10 – 1.20.3Release
1.3.8Aug 17, 20261.10 – 1.20.3Release
1.3.7Aug 1, 20261.10 – 1.20.3Release
1.3.6Jul 18, 20261.10 – 1.20.3Release
Description from the author on Modrinth

🌌 Lumina Shader — Event Horizon

Transform Minecraft Java with cinematic lighting, atmospheric landscapes and a cosmic overhaul of the End. Explore detailed skies, reflective water and glowing celestial objects, with adjustable quality profiles for gameplay and screenshots.

🕳️ A Cosmic End

  • A Black Hole with an animated accretion disk, gravitational lensing and radial light rays.
  • An optional White Hole with independently configurable energy rays.
  • Dedicated controls for disk size, intensity, lensing and rotation.

✨ Lighting and Atmosphere

  • Volumetric clouds, light shafts and atmospheric fog.
  • Dynamic shadows, colored lighting and bloom.
  • Animated vegetation and configurable water reflections.
  • Nether atmosphere improvements, with a dedicated compatibility path on macOS.
  • PBR resource-pack support and dedicated Distant Horizons rendering paths.

🎯 Cinematic Autofocus

Keep your subject and foreground sharp while softly blurring the background.

Enable it under Cinematics → Focus & Depth of Field → Blur Mode → Cinematic Autofocus. Leave Depth of Field Focus on Automatic, then adjust blur strength and quality.

Distance Blur and traditional Depth of Field are also available.

⚙️ Quality and Compatibility

  • Minecraft: Java Edition, targeting versions 1.8–26.3.
  • Iris for supported modern versions or OptiFine for compatible versions.
  • Quality profiles from Potato to Ultra.
  • Support for Distant Horizons.

Use a shader-loader build matching your Minecraft version. Individual effects depend on your loader and hardware.

Performance varies with GPU, resolution, render distance, resource packs and settings. Start with Medium, then adjust cloud quality, shadows and reflections to suit your system.

📥 Installation

  1. Install Iris or a compatible OptiFine version.
  2. Launch Minecraft with your shader loader.
  3. Open Options → Video Settings → Shader Packs.
  4. Open the shader-pack folder and place the downloaded Lumina .zip inside without extracting it.
  5. Select Lumina and choose your preferred quality profile.

📜 Credits and License

Developer: Benjiaa.

Lumina Event Horizon is a modified shader pack based on Complementary Reimagined by EminGT.

🐛 Feedback and Support

When reporting a problem, include your Minecraft version, shader loader, GPU, active profile and screenshots or logs.

Report bugs or share feedback on GitHub Issues


🚀 Other Projects

  • 🌤️ Lumina Shader – Lite — Lightweight shaders for low-end PCs, laptops, and integrated graphics.
  • 🔋 BatteryCraft — Automatic battery-saving profiles for Minecraft on MacBooks.

Written by Benjiaa. Read it with pictures on Modrinth.

How to install Lumina Shader

  1. Install Iris (with Sodium) or OptiFine for your Minecraft version: shaders need one of them.

  2. Download the .zip file from Modrinth. Do not unzip it.

  3. In Minecraft, open Options, then Video Settings, then Shader Packs, and click Open Shader Pack Folder.

  4. Drop the .zip file into that folder, pick Lumina Shader in the list and click Done.

  5. Shaders are heavy on the graphics card. If the game gets slow, pick a lower profile in the shader settings.

Full guide: How to install Minecraft shaders

Compatibility

Minecraft versions
26.x, 1.21, 1.20, 1.19, 1.18, 1.17, 1.16, 1.13, 1.12, 1.8
Edition
Java
Needs
Nothing else
License
Free to use
Price
Free
Upkeep
Actively updated (Nov 13, 2026)

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Questions

Does Lumina Shader work on Minecraft 26.x?

Yes. Lumina Shader supports Minecraft 26.x. All supported versions: 26.x, 1.21, 1.20, 1.19, 1.18, 1.17, 1.16, 1.13, 1.12, 1.8.

Is Lumina Shader free?

Yes. Lumina Shader is free to download from Modrinth.

Is Lumina Shader still updated?

Yes. The last update came out in the past day.

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