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I was trying to get shaders for my 1.11 modded world and so far have installed optifine. I downloaded a shader pack, went to the shaderpack folder, placed the folder named 'shaders' in there, opened up minecraft 1.11 with forge, it said it was installed so I went to setting selected Vidio settings clicked ok shaders and the only two options were 'OFF' and '(Internal)'. In the bottom left folder there is a button that says Shaders Folder clicked it and it brought up the shader pack folder and the pack was just sitting there! Please help I don't know what's wrong but I'm getting really irritated, I'm on a mac with forge 1.11

Dear JistheKingofCheese
Have you properly unzipped the file?
have you placed it in the right file?
Screenshots please?

Other Than That here is a guide i found to installing Shaders if it still has problems after this provide screenshots and i can help you more.

I don't know how to unzip a file or if it is unzipped but when I download a shaders pack it's already a folder? I don't know if that's supposed to happen

Also having trouble posting screen shots (IDK)

No

Quote from JistheKingofCheese»

I don't know how to unzip a file or if it is unzipped but when I download a shaders pack it's already a folder? I don't know if that's supposed to happen

A Zipped File Will Look Like it has a zipper. (i Have put i picture in attaachments)

Having Your pack zipped makes it unusable.

Use Winrar It is free and super easy to use.
it help to unzip a folder with ease.
WinRar

<3 -Blaze

Thanks blaze for informing me on that, I can see now it's already unzipped

Got a screen shot

What shaders do you have?

I Might be able to fiddle around and see if it works for me.

Quote from JistheKingofCheese»

Got a screen shot

Put it on another folder, the shaders folder alone will not be initialized, it must be inside of a folder with a name on it

Like this: Sildurs Shaders-->shaders-->final, composite, gbuffers_terrain, etc.

NOTE:

Don't extract/unzipped the file if it already contains a "shaders" foler inside of it. Just drag it in to the shaderpacks folder.

Quote from TheCoolSteveMan»

Put it on another folder, the shaders folder alone will not be initialized, it must be inside of a folder with a name on it

Like this: Sildurs Shaders-->shaders-->final, composite, gbuffers_terrain, etc.

Quote from BlazeBladez»

What he said.
(why does everyone have to solve things just before i was going to)

Quote from TheCoolSteveMan»

Because you didn't said it right away.

Which shaderpack are you trying to install? I don't know why people are telling you to unzip the file. Don't unzip. Every shaderpack I'm familiar with is downloaded as a zipped file. You shouldn't be getting a folder when you download the shaderpack. Simply place the zipped file into the shaderpacks folder.

THANK YOU, that fixed the issue! I'll make sure to do that. Thanks to everyone else who helped