Zenteon Shaders

Our flagship global illumination shader, ZenRT brings screenspace ray tracing to your games, calculating realistic lighting interactions with no dedicated ray tracing hardware needed. It enhances your visuals with ambient occlusion, indirect lighting, and smooth indirect shadows, perfect for gamers who want to bring modern lighting effects into their games without requiring expensive hardware. ZenRT creates a more immersive experience by making light behave in a way that mirrors the real world.

A bloom shader that simulates a hexagonal aperture, creating more defined light streaks compared to standard bloom. Radon includes chromatic aberration, a procedural lens dirt effect generated from hundreds of SDFs, and customizable bloom shaping. It works with SDR content, but also includes an HDR bypass option for REST compatibility.

A film simulation shader designed for virtual photographers and digital artists. ZXpose recreates the look of film with path-traced halation, wave-based spectral shifts, and customizable film grain. Since it’s an offline shader, it renders out frames for higher-quality effects without real-time constraints.

A real-time, path-traced volumetric fog shader that simulates light absorption and scattering to add depth and atmosphere. PT Fog handles occlusion to reduce light bleeding, with a filter to smooth out noise and flicker.

TurboGI focuses on high-performance lighting and shading. It simulates global illumination faster than many post-processing effects, giving you more natural light behavior without the heavy performance cost of typical GI. Ideal for open environments, dark interiors, and players who value immersive lighting on a tight budget.

Crystallis is designed for clear, accurate film grain, allowing anything from subtle color grains for a more vintage feel, to gritty black-and-white images like those in early 1800s photography. It uses a few tricks to emulate hundreds of grains per pixel at almost no cost and has a high-quality mode that simulates grains directly.

Smooth and modern, Xenon delivers high quality and high performance bloom, meant to give results closer to that of an actual camera than typically seen in games. It provides a sleek but detailed output that adds bloom without blowing out or blurring your visuals.

For gamers who want a cleaner, more defined look without over-the-top effects or aggressive sharpening, Local Contrast enhances your visuals by boosting key details. It increases visibility in both bright and dark areas, making your game easier to see and more enjoyable to play while being very light on performance.

Framework is a utility shader that provides scene data for customization and shader development. It supplies data for other shaders that require it and helps developers extend their own ReShade effects.