Shaders

Shaders#

SEUS (Sonic Ether’s Unbelievable Shaders)#

Performance Requirement: High | Summary: Highly realistic, PT ⭐⭐⭐

Legacy SEUS Classical PBR (Physically Based Rendering) Minecraft shader like SEUS V11, SEUS Ultra. Medium performance requirement.

SEUS Renewed

A reinvention of the legacy versions of SEUS that brings quality visuals at a reasonable performance using traditional rasterization-based rendering methods.

SEUS PTGI

Path Traced Global Illumination, a ray tracing shader without using RTX graphics card. Needs a high performance computer.

BSL#

Performance Requirement: medium | Summary: Clear overall, PBR ⭐⭐⭐

BSL Shaders is a shaderpack made exclusively for Minecraft: Java Edition. It’s bright, colorful, and distinct. Low performance requirement. Many shaders are derived from BSL: Complementary, Solas, AstraLex, Lux, Insanity, OPAL.

Complementary#

Performance Requirement: Medium | Summary: Fantasy colored lights, PBR ⭐⭐⭐

Complementary Reimagined

Preserving the elements of Minecraft with exceptional quality, detail, and performance.

Complementary Unbound

Transforming the visuals of Minecraft with exceptional quality, detail, and performance.

Rethinking Voxel#

Performance Requirement: high | Summary: RT ⭐⭐

Forked from Complementary Reimagined with voxelisation, ray traced occlusion checks and coloured flood fill block light by gri573

Sildur’s Vibrant#

Performance Requirement: low | Summary: Vibrant colors ⭐⭐

Highly saturated feel and optionable.

Kappa#

Performance Requirement: high | Summary: Realistic and clear, PT ⭐⭐⭐

Kappa Shaders is a good middle ground for players who want more realistic lighting and shadow effects, but don’t want to change the look of Minecraft too much overall. RRe36 is the creator of this shader, working on other shader projects like Kappa, KappaRT, Nostalgia, NostalgiaVX, Soft Voxel, Potato, Simplicissimus, UShader, Vanilla Plus

Kappa v5.3

KappaPT

Nostalgia#

Performance Requirement: medium | Summary: Legacy realistic classical feel ⭐⭐

This shaderpack is intended to reproduce the look and feel of the “old” shaderpacks from back when the shadersmod was new. The advancement of this pack, NostalgiaVX features world-space path-traced lighting using voxels.

Nostalgia

NostalgiaVX

Soft Voxels#

Performance Requirement: medium | Summary: Smooth RT gameplay ⭐⭐

Stable ray traced performance but quality is reduced.

Project LUMA#

Performance Requirement: medium | Summary: Realistic ⭐⭐

Continued after KUDA, ProjectLUMA’s primary goal is to make the game world look as realistic as possible. Great photorealistic and the god rays shining down on the game world around you. A whole new level of immersion is created due to the lighting effects provided by this shader pack.

Chocapic13’s#

Performance Requirement: low | Summary: Realistic ⭐⭐

Chocapic13’s Shaders mod is very easy for developers to work on. One of the best effects is actually the fog, which couples very well with dark and rainy nights.

Bliss#

Performance Requirement: low | Summary: Fantasy ⭐⭐

This is an edit of Chocapic’s shader. With rich color change on different environment.

Continuum#

Performance Requirement: medium | Summary: Cinematic view, PT ⭐⭐

One of the highly liked shaders on market. Brings nearly AAA natural color and lighting effects.

Contimuum RT

Contimuum v2.1

Contimuum v2.0

Contimuum v1.3

Stratum

A high resolution, realistically themed texture pack for Minecraft made by Continuum. PBR texture and POM support.

Voyager#

Performance Requirement: medium | Summary: Cinematic view ⭐⭐

Suitable for cinematic scene on a long distance sun rays view and in the presence of water

ApolloRT#

Performance Requirement: medium | Summary: RT ⭐⭐

A ray tracing shaders created by snuft, obtainable through patreon. For some reason, it was deprecated.

Photon#

Performance Requirement: medium | Summary: Colored lights, RT ⭐⭐

Great sky and colored lighting.

MollyVX#

Performance Requirement: high | Summary: Colored lights, RT ⭐⭐

MollyVX is a path tracing shader that adds a whole layer of visual fidelity to Minecraft. This shader sports stunning lighting that models the way light travels in real life.

Makeup Ultra Fast#

Performance Requirement: low | Sumamry: Vanilla Gameplay ⭐⭐

A performance vanilla-based shader

Comparison#