Glimmer Shaderpack Overview
Glimmer is a Minecraft shaderpack crafted for players seeking a blend of simplicity, outstanding visual performance, and efficiency. Despite its streamlined resource usage, Glimmer delivers high-quality graphics that seamlessly enhance the Minecraft experience.
Key Features
- Multiple Presets: Choose from ‘Potato’, ‘Toaster’, ‘Integrated Graphics’, and ‘Dedicated Graphics’ profiles—ensuring smooth gameplay whether you’re running Minecraft on basic hardware or a high-end machine.
- Colored Block Lighting: Experience vibrant, accurate lighting effects that bring your world to life.
- Distant Horizons Support: Extended world rendering seamlessly integrates with Distant Horizons mod, unlocking massive vistas.
- Infinite Ocean: Enjoy oceans that visually stretch beyond the standard render distance, creating an immersive aquatic environment.
- LabPBR 1.3 Compliance: Full compatibility with LabPBR 1.3 textures ensures consistent, advanced lighting and material effects.
- Dynamic Shadows: Utilizes either shadow mapping or lightmap-based approximations to cast realistic shadows throughout your world.
- Screen Space Reflections and Refractions: Surfaces like water exhibit realistic reflection and refraction effects.
- Procedural 2D Clouds: Unique, generated clouds complement the sky for added atmosphere.
- Temporal Filtering: Reduces rendering noise, especially at low sample counts, for cleaner visuals.
- Bloom: Adds a delicate glow around bright objects, enhancing the overall visual quality.
Compatibility and Requirements
- Graphics: Requires OpenGL 4.3 or higher. Compatible with most modern integrated and dedicated GPUs.
- Operating System: Not available for macOS or Raspberry Pi devices.
- Shader Loader: Officially supports Iris 1.6+; not compatible with OptiFine.
Enhance your Minecraft worlds with Glimmer: enjoy stunning graphics and smooth performance across a wide range of systems!
Except for special cases, Minecraft Shaders are generally backward compatible, but not forward compatible.
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- If you don’t know how to use Minecraft Shaders, please click to view the Shaders usage tutorial.