Complementary
Shaders

Download Information

This page explains exactly how downloads from this website work, where the file comes from, what you receive, and what to check, so you never have to take a download button on faith.

How the download buttons work

  1. You choose a style on the homepage: Complementary Unbound (realistic) or Complementary Reimagined (vanilla-inspired).
  2. When you click the button, your browser asks the project's official Modrinth listing for the current release, selects the latest stable ZIP, and starts downloading that file directly from Modrinth's file servers.
  3. A status line under the button confirms the exact filename being saved, for the current release, ComplementaryUnbound_r5.9.3.zip or ComplementaryReimagined_r5.9.3.zip (about 0.53 MB).

This website does not host, mirror, repackage or modify the shader files, and it does not wrap them in an installer. What you receive is the developers' file, fetched at the moment you click. An up-to-date browser and an HTTPS connection are required for the lookup to work; if a download fails, the status line explains why, and trying again usually succeeds.

What the file is, and is not

  • It is a small ZIP archive of shader code for Minecraft Java Edition, to be placed, unopened, in the game's shaderpacks folder.
  • It is not an executable or installer. If anything you downloaded asks to be "installed" as a program, it is not this file; delete it and download again.
  • It is not a Bedrock file. No Bedrock edition of Complementary Shaders exists, see the Bedrock guide.

Checking your download

Run the 30-second routine in our ZIP file checks guide: right filename pattern, size around half a megabyte, still zipped, no second archive inside. Then install it with the complete installation guide.

Licence

Complementary Shaders is the work of its developers and is distributed under their licence terms, stated on the project's official listings. This site's role is information and a convenient, transparent route to the official file, nothing here grants rights beyond those terms.

Other legitimate routes

The pack is also available from its official project listings on Modrinth and CurseForge, and the developers offer an official installer that sets up the pack together with the Iris loader. Every legitimate route delivers the same file; be suspicious of any other source, especially executables and "premium" repacks.