Found Footage Shader — Changelog

v1.0.0 — Initial Release

Released: 2026-02-27

First stable release. This version includes all core effects that transform Minecraft into a found footage horror aesthetic.

New Features

World Rendering

• Added gbuffers_terrain, gbuffers_water, gbuffers_entities, gbuffers_hand, gbuffers_sky, and gbuffers_clouds pipelines. The world is now fully rendered inside the shader pack without fallback.
• Integrated lightmap-based lighting.

Post-Processing — composite pass

• Desaturation + greenish/sickly color tone (VHS-style color grading).
• Strong oval vignette — edges are almost completely dark.
• Contrast crushing (shadow crush) for a dirty, low-quality camera feel.

Post-Processing — final pass

• Camera shake: Smooth noise-based organic camera movement, with independent X and Y axis frequencies.
• Analog line jitter: Random horizontal lines shift, with dynamically changing intensity.
• Chromatic aberration: R/G/B channels separate horizontally, becoming more pronounced toward screen edges.
• Film grain: 4× denser noise in dark areas — paranoia increases as light decreases.
• Scanlines: Subtle CRT effect.
• Tape dropout: Occasional white horizontal flash line simulating real VHS signal loss.
• Light flicker: Micro brightness fluctuations every frame.

HUD Overlays

• REC indicator: Blinking red dot and REC label in the top-left corner, ~0.9 Hz frequency.
• Timecode stamp: Live counter in MM:SS:FF format at the bottom-right corner in amber color. Handwritten 3×5 pixel bitmap font.

Technical Notes

• #version 120 — for broad OptiFine/Iris compatibility.
• oldHandLight = true and vignette = false settings included in shaders.properties.
• All effects are tied to the frameTimeCounter uniform, ensuring consistent timing without looping artifacts.
• No external dependencies — works with the vanilla texture pack.

Compatibility

Known Issues

• The hand model (gbuffers_hand) may be overly affected by the lightmap in some OptiFine versions, resulting in a visually darker appearance.
• Water surface transparency is not fully processed; gbuffers_water currently uses the same shader as terrain.
• The timecode starts from frameTimeCounter, meaning it begins counting when the world loads and does not follow the in-game time.

Found Footage Shader — v1.0.0