Colorwheel is a mod that makes Flywheel and Iris compatible. This means that you can play with Create 6 while using shaders and still enjoy good performance! This mod is similar to Iris Flywheel Compat.

Shaderpacks

There are 3 tiers of shaderpacks:

Shaderpacks that supports the mod officially
Shaderpacks with non-official support (using Colorwheel-Patcher)
Shaderpacks without support (may be compatible with the fallback mode)

Developers can adapt their shaderpacks to be compatible with Colorwheel. A documentation is available here.
As of today, shaderpacks officially compatible are:

Complementary Unbound/Reimagined, since r5.7
Euphoria Patches, since 1.7.0
Eclipse (edit of Bliss, available on GitHub)
Glimmer, since v1.5
I Like Vanilla, since v1.0.3
Just Colored Lighting, since 0.9.5
RenderPearl, since v2.8.0-beta.3
Shrimple (WIP, available on GitHub)
Solas Shader, since v3.2
Spooklementary, since v2.0.3
Steadfast

These shaderpacks above work straight out of the box, and require no intervention.

There is also a fork of photon available on my GitHub. This fork supports colored lighting on contraptions and is compatible with Voxy, which isn't the case with the patch available with Colorwheel-Patcher.

Some shaderpacks have non-official support with some custom made patches. Those patches are available with the Colorwheel-Patcher mod. Such shaderpacks are:

BSL 10.1
Bliss 2.1.1 - 2.1.2
Complementary 5.6 - 5.6.1
Complementary 5.5.1 (with Colorwheel-Patcher 1.0.0)
Euphoria Patches 1.6.3 - 1.6.8
Photon 1.3a
Rethinking Voxels 0.1-beta9

For shaderpacks without support, a fallback mode is available. This mode will use existing shaders as a best effort attempt, like Iris Flywheel Compat does. This doesn't replace true compatible packs as there WILL BE rendering issues, but that's better than nothing.

Those shaderpacks have been tested with Create without major issues:

Kappa
MakeUp Ultra Fast
Noble
Nostalgia
Pastel Shaders
Sildur's Vibrant
Solas Shader
Super Duper Vanilla

Tip: it's common for shaderpacks to disable Entity Shadows or Block Entity Shadows by default. Make sure that those options are toggled if you want Create contraptions to cast lights and shadows (and don't forget to toggle the required options for light casting in the shaderpack settings !).

Compatibility

As of version 1.0, Iris Flywheel Compat is incompatible with Colorwheel due to conflicting mixins. This won't be fixed.

Create Better FPS is compatible, and may improve performance in some situations. This may happen either because the flywheel:off backend is used or because some blocks, like the factory gauges, are not rendered using Flywheel.

Performances comparison

Steam Deck, BSL Low:

1089 waterwheels:

Flywheel OFF: 2 fps
Create Better FPS: 5 fps
Colorwheel: 50 fps

Modpacks

Colorwheel doesn't requires a Flywheel mod. In this case, the mod will disable itself.
Iris/Oculus is the only hard dependency.

Discord

#colorwheel on https://discord.gg/J6vfuzZeU2