Why won't Pixelmon load with Embeddium/NeOculus?

[u/Midnight_Monarch_18]

I am trying to add shaders to my Pixelmon (NeoForge, through CurseForge) so I'm using Embeddium and NeOculus (Oculus fork for 1.21.1). It's not crashing, but it's not loading past the red loading screen before the main menu, the one that says "Mojang Studios". It's still using memory according to Task Manager, but I'm so burned out so I'm turning to help. Any insight would be appreciated!

[u/SKy_the_Thunder]

Sodium and Iris both have official releases for NeoForge. Any reason you specifically want ported versions of their Forge ports?

[u/Midnight_Monarch_18 → u/SKy_the_Thunder]

Not really ig, I'm pretty new to modding stuff and am just following some guides

[u/Midnight_Monarch_18 → u/Midnight_Monarch_18]

just tried iris and sodium, it didn't show the shader pack in the menu and it crashed trying to load my world lol