Graphics General

[languid mirage]

The first image - Leaves look super noisey bc of the small high res leaves

[willow needle]

at least i can make texture using sketch (because this is quite difficult)

[rough gazelle]

Mmmm, hello

Oh, is this a place to share screenshots of Vibrant Visual/Ray Tracing?

[sonic canopy]

Yeah, you may share them here (#1182091012177399809), make a new post in #1182087588555792395 or in #1046947779118895114. This general channel can also be used for general graphics discussions as well as posting general images or videos related to graphics and rendering, it's not limited to ray tracing and vibrant visuals (e.g. shaders and vfx are also allowed)

[rancid seal]

Yeah, you can, why not. ^

[white willow]

My pack does it in a combined style. You can't actually mix them but with higher resolution you can mix the visuals of a heightmap with details of a normal. it's kinda hard to explain

[rancid seal]

So, it is possible to use them at the same time for the same texture?

[white willow]

I use the 128x resolution to get the per pixel look of heightmaps. And I use the fact it's a normal to blend in extra shading and detail into it to fake insane levels of depth

[white willow]

No it's still just a normal. It's just using the fact it's at a higher resolution to mimic heightmaps

Heightmaps are just auto generated high res normals slapped onto the 16x materials anyway

For example it lets me do cool things like having the edge of pixels be rounded off. It can also create "shadows" in between the different "heights" it's neat

[rancid seal]

Is that RTX thing too?

[white willow]

Well yea

It's not a perfect style and I'm still refining it

[thorn bison]

looks great tbh

[deft cradle]

guys what is short grass called in textures?

[thorn bison]

tallgrass.png

[rancid seal]

Ohhh, I will be using that.

[deft cradle]

Very strange name but worked

[rough gazelle]

Ok ^_^

A little screenshot from my pack ^_

[deft cradle]

Very awesome so far

[wise hinge]

[deft cradle]

what about dark oak leaves

[brave star]

leaves_big_oak_opaque.png

[deft cradle]

😭

so confusing thanks tho

[deft cradle]

final question sorry to bother you but you know how they tint their grass in terrain. I tried a tint color and it only applies to certain biomes. Not biomes like roofed forest

[deft cradle]

nvm got it

[languid mirage]

Ultra preset

1% low says 30 but I never felt FPS drops below 60.

[willow needle]

Strawberry Vibrant Enhanced V2.2

[rancid seal]

Vv looks weird

[languid mirage]

It has some great moments - but overall yea.

[rancid seal]

I don't like vv water and clouds tbh. If you want to have beautiful Minecraft-styled graphics, that's okay. But if you want to have realism - no. Rtx clouds looks better imo, but they are broken, unfortunately.

[rancid seal]

That's not cute

[rough gazelle]

Ok

[tribal trail]

vv clouds looks similar to rtx clouds imo

both have vanilla shape and look like aerogel

[rancid seal]

Im not sure about that. They are a bit different. I like RTX clouds more.

[gloomy abyss]

Btw is the vibrant visual default packs downloadable somewhere? The default vanilla one
I have the game source file but somehow I can’t find where the VV default vanilla is

In the color grade section tone mapping when I usually use “reinhard” the colors are a bit dull

But when I use any invalid values that’ll cause the color grade to turn back to default

And the error value made it look pretty good

[white willow]

no. only place you can get all of it is from the mc files

the bedrock sample pack doesnt contain any vv configs. only the textures sadly

[gloomy abyss]

Thanks for the info

I’ll try to figure it out somehow

[white willow]

i can tell you how to get to the original vv files

[white willow]

go to
xboxGames/MinecraftForWindows/data/resource_packs/1.21.90
all default vv configs are there

[gloomy abyss]

Thank you 🙏🏼

[gloomy abyss]

okay i found a proper way now I'll use bedrock editor for that

Damn.. I've been doing this pack for 3 weeks only in a notepad++ I had to /reload so many times and guessing the outcome with the color codes I put in without any visual display

[rancid seal]

Clouuuds

[languid mirage]

What parts of editor, actually work for VV?

[silent zealot]

All of it now from my testing.

https://discord.com/channels/523663022053392405/1437220081359655014

Video of me using it

Note however at time of recording water rendering was broken, the issue is resolved in the latest preview.

[languid mirage]

W.

I’ve been needing to fine tune color grading for a while and just finally got a pc a bit ago.

[silent zealot]

Ah, one thing I forgot in that video but I did put in the post is the lack of per biome editing. They said thats coming though.

[deft cradle]

In the hotbar but when placed it does work

[silent zealot]

#1067869590400544869

[deft cradle]

👍

[languid mirage]

Rethinking Voxels is actually next-level. RT+performance????

[wise hinge]

I wish I had a graphics card

[ornate hollow]

i wish i had gtx 970

[kind folio]

AILoo RCT V2.1.0

Picture 1 has a hole under the tree (terrain bug)

And I don't know why the reflection of the leaf in picture 1 looks weird (I'm not talking about the bottom layer of the leaf)

[wise hinge]

[white willow]

RV is not raytracing

RVs lighting is basically just point lights

[sonic canopy]

It does use SDF ray marching tho, doesn't it

[tribal trail]

RV is cone tracing

[languid mirage]

it has SDF adjustments for RT + Cone tracing adjustments...

[languid mirage]

Point lights are garbage compared to this 😭

[white willow]

not anymore. that was an old version

[white willow]

i think so?

[white willow]

well split VVs point lights off from point lights as a whole. point lights as a general tech is very good. VVs just needs alot of work

RV does some like light listing and voxel stuff with what is basically point light tech

point lights can do very powerful things without any kind of raytracing

[languid mirage]

"update cone direction for RT" is that not for Cone tracing?

and really?.... Moooojaaaannnggggggg cmon dude

[white willow]

i mean last i heard the "cone tracing" from rv is no longer in use

rv doesnt do any ray/path tracing anymore

aside from some raymarching related stuff for GI

[languid mirage]

🤷‍♂️ i just see the options. no idea what is actually working in the bg. everything in its settings say RT or voxelization

[white willow]

well yea it does some voxel stuff

but voxel doesnt inherently mean raytracing

complementary's worldspace reflections are not raytraced

im not entirely sure how they work

[white willow]

i love this

[pale urchin]

The glow lichen light looks dim. How did you pull that off?

[white willow]

set the color value super super low

 "minecraft:glow_lichen": {
            "light_color": [15,25, 20],
            "light_type": "static_light"
        },

[silent zealot]

I wonder if I need to clamp it between 0-15 like MER

[tropic rampart]

merl

[white willow]

Probably. I haven't really had much time to properly mess with this stuff yet tbh. I'd like to properly experiment soon tho

[silent zealot]

MERS

[tropic rampart]

merls

[pale urchin]

That's interesting. last time I saw someone do this, "black" wasn't black

[silent zealot]

Im guessing the mer doesnt influence anything

[white willow]

i dont believe so

[pale urchin]

Looking at this again, has the ambient occlusion always been that strong?

Or is it your post proccessing?

[white willow]

my color grading likely

i also use almost next to no ambient light (which im gonna change)

but i may not. i like darker caves

[wise hinge]

that redstone ores look really nice

[languid mirage]

once light isnt the same intensity all the way out, it will be pretty awesome

[wise hinge]

bro finally remembered the existence of this server

[limpid sequoia]

after a long time

[wise hinge]

because of my post in bedrock graphics /j

[limpid sequoia]

fr

[wise hinge]

[wise hinge]

shadows look weird in the latest preview

1.21.130

Preview

[limpid sequoia]

+1 bug

[wise hinge]

[limpid sequoia]

and they have never fixed "leaking" lighting

[wise hinge]

congrats

[limpid sequoia]

[wise hinge]

it's hard to fix ig
but they could have fixed the milky water and the issue that water is rendered before the fog

i wish they fix next year

[limpid sequoia]

why so long

[languid mirage]

Water has THE MOST issues of all vv features. Overall terrible performance being the main thing.

[tropic rampart]

26.0 changelog:

• removed water

[languid mirage]

IF & WHEN - VV point lights get this good, inlcuding directional block light.. I will scream of joy

[limpid sequoia]

lol

[limpid sequoia]

my phone, pc will explode

[languid mirage]

phone maybe. my pc isnt even good. ryzen 5 3500/gtx 1080ti

PL could be this good for console/pc*

[wise hinge]

oh, oh, they should fix taau first lol

[limpid sequoia]

yes

[wise hinge]

https://tenor.com/view/san-blurred-gif-14256087

[wise hinge]

tf

[limpid sequoia]

UI broken

[tropic rampart]

WAI

[quasi trench]

the end is nigh

[sonic canopy]

Bedrock RTX spectral path tracer on a lightfield display
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/286649185468678144/1450369049262293073/20251216_065419.mp4?ex=694248ef&is=6940f76f&hm=1def9e21ce9c455b3ad2f5746e81bce4f6eb564344f12aa242a221180d73da10&

[thorn bison]

what is this witchcraft

[sonic canopy]

It's basically this, but with a display instead of a printed image, same overall principle

[white willow]

Maybe this has to do with their light leak fix?

[quick nymph]

That looks like you shadow distance is too small, around 3 or 4 chunks

[quick nymph]

Ahh yes my favourite game minecraft ÷ 2

[quasi trench]

so it’s not able to be reproduced?

just a setting was messed with?

[white willow]

(default vv for reference here happens in my resource pack too) dont we think the uh skylight falloff is uh... a little um too much? i dont remember this being so intense

[quick nymph]

I don't know, as I haven't tried but based on java shaders, the shadow distance controls that.

[pale urchin]

If they properly fixed the light leaking, they can remove this entirely besides in places where there's no shadow map data

[white willow]

this looks like they are doing some kind of AO based stuff to prevent light leaking but it causes this above ground

or its some kind of lightmap thing

im not really sure

idk but it definitely looks bad especially if someone is gonna do a sky build

ok it does similarly happen in vanilla graphics but its way smoother

so this just needs to be smoothed out a bunch

[white willow]

upon further assumption, this might have been a problem for a while and is unrelated to the light leak fixes

[wise hinge]

[pale urchin]

It was a bandaid solution to the light leaking

[limpid sequoia]

-# just simple at all

[languid mirage]

indeed.

[thorn bison]

looks like photon?

[languid mirage]

literally my favorite shader. idk if i can use vv again

[thorn bison]

welcome to the club

[long ruin]

https://tenor.com/view/cat-cat-spinning-pillow-this-server-is-powered-by-this-cat-cat-powered-server-gif-24179228

[wise hinge]

[long ruin]

vrooooom

[long ruin]

blom

[limpid sequoia]

[white willow]

vv with exposure parameters tweaked

what i changed makes bright things exposed more while not exposing the dark as much

I'd love to send more pictures but my internet is not being nice to me

I literally cannot express how much better VV looks with less aggressive auto exposure

I've made some tweaks to my sun intensity so daytime isn't nearly as bright

[tribal trail]

We really need exposure change where they make it less aggressive

Mostly it bothers me with emissive blocks

[white willow]

I wish I could show how good this sunrise lighting looks right now with my changes but due to my internet I can't

the brighter more bloomy sunlight just looks so much nicer imo

im gonna see what default vv looks like with these adjustments

it really hasnt changed much outside of exposure just being nicer with glowing blocks

nvm its way nicer. far less dull

if anyone wants to try out the exposure changes. heres the file for it

if anyone from the dev team is looking. please consider either making it data driven or looking into adjustments that make it less agressive like i have here

caves look amazing with these changes + colored lighting

ok so uh update. caves arent any different compared to having the settings on default

[languid mirage]

Just data drive it. Simple.

[white willow]

just in my edited version it doesnt adjust for emissives until you shove your face into them

this looks insane.

lemme switch to native so its less blurry

nvm the specular is grainy

im gonna tweak my color grading a bit to be less intense

[white willow]

with my changes

[cedar pumice]

Which is your edited version?

[white willow]

left is default auto exposure, right is my tweaked auto exposure

[cedar pumice]

Dang

The skulk stuff is so much more noticeable

[white willow]

left is default, right is edited

basically i tweaked it on the high and low points so it priortizes keeping bright stuff exposed while also not destroying dark areas too much

so lighting overall is brighter and emissives looks better

im gonna brighten up my caves a tad tho. my ambient lighting is really low

this is better. areas that were pitch black before are now dark but playable (default exposure)

[indigo quail]

did someone know why addons resourcepack disable vibrant visuals?

i used
"capabilities": [
"pbr"
],
and still dont work for me

[white willow]

strange. not really sure why that would happen

[indigo quail]

i know is strange im using that and dont work

[white willow]

i just noticed light occlusion on point lights is ALOT better. it doesnt clip through walls as much as it used to. just shadows for them are currently broken underground

[sonic canopy]

Does occlusion look better when shadows are working? Can't really state that it is working better, as when there are no shadows there is by definition no light occlusion

[white willow]

i mean they dont clip through. biasing is still quite weird tho

oh wait. maybe the bias is fixed

i think they do look a bit better

*lemme reset my average luminance file rq too)

hm maybe im crazy but it does seem like the point light shadow baising is better. wasnt it like slightly offset before

[white willow]

ok um. im sorry i was wrong

this has been fixed in latest preview

for some reason my preview was not updated

unless said platform im using here is not big enough

nvm it does

ok yea black void still exists

point lights will stop correctly casting shadows below y 31

not really sure why but

[silent zealot]

That is a subchunk

[white willow]

its just weird because it used to work before

[silent zealot]

Could it be part of their light leaking patch

[white willow]

i dont know because i was playing on the previous patch which didnt have light leak fix and this was happening

[white willow]

copper bulb

[wise hinge]

spam time
mojang auto exposure tweak
ssao
new tonemapper
skylight keyframe
weather customization
a lot of water bugs fix
taau fix wheeeeennn
(2026 wish list)

[tribal trail]

I always knew that auto exposure was the thing that was making vv ugly

it looks so much better with less strong ae

[wise hinge]

[gloomy abyss]

what causes that tho
i once had this issue but it's some how fixed till today I'm not sure what the reason of that was that causes the shadows to look all washed up like that.

[wise hinge]

idk maybe AO?

[limpid sequoia]

ur auto exposure looks so good

[stark harness]

Is that vibrant visuals or rtx

[pale urchin]

It's RTX

[willow needle]

Remake cherry leaves

before

after

[wise hinge]

[primal girder]

îts just so peak

[limpid sequoia]

ngl

[willow needle]

Pink tulip

[limpid sequoia]

good

[signal nebula]

Hello I would wish to make an resource pack that changes the textures of an addon

[wise hinge]

[humble steeple]

https://feedback.minecraft.net/hc/en-us/community/posts/41526941899149-Give-a-toggle-to-turn-off-autoexposure

Go vote

[limpid sequoia]

[willow needle]

Remake waterlily

[limpid sequoia]

i love it

[quick nymph]

Why would you want to turn it off?

Improvements are needed not disable

[humble steeple]

Read the full post

[quick nymph]

I can see why you'd want it off but I can't see that working long term.

[tropic rampart]

i mean, non-VV doesn't have it and it works, right?

i prefer bright areas bright and dark areas dark.

instead of everything being "bright, but not too bright"

overall, as much of VV as possible should be togglable things.

[quick nymph]

You still get that with auto exposure, auto exposure just adds another level of realism to the game. Basically, auto exposure mimics how your eyes adapt to changing light conditions. Auto exposure has the potential to be really great if creators get access to it's parametres.

I think rather than togglable, as much of VV should be customisable.

[candid spear]

Could anyone recommend me a good Vibrant Visuals shader texture pack please? I am currently using Luminous Dreams and i really like it but sometimes my game gets way too dark, especially in the nether

Must be a lightweight pack similar to Luminous Dreams

[wise hinge]

PRIZMA VISUALS

[candid spear]

Does it alter any vanilla texture? Like blocks and sprites

[wise hinge]

it has an option to use vanilla textures

[candid spear]

Alright thank you

[wise hinge]

[candid spear]

Another question, does anyone have a good performance optimizer texture pack?
I have been using Vanilla x Optimizer but i'm pretty sure there could be a better one.
Must be a vanilla package.

[mossy verge]

There is no such thing as optimizer pack

[candid spear]

Yes there are

[mossy verge]

How much performance they improve

What they do to improve performance?

All of those packs are pure clickbait

Almost no performance improvement

[candid spear]

I am no expert but a performance improving pack simply cuts unnecessary content, such as particles and animations.
This might not constantly improve your game but there might be certain situations that will benefit from this, such as standing next to a mob farm or in areas that would have otherwise too many particles.
I have seen video proofs of such thing, showing an increase of 5-15 fps in those certain situations.

[mossy verge]

Well in that case what you're already using is good enough

Other packs are going to be same thing anyways

[candid spear]

My current pack is very vanilla friendly and i doubt that is optimizing every last bit of performance

Idk really since i have not looked at the files

[limpid sequoia]

Desert 🌵

[fluid holly]

is this normal

[limpid sequoia]

yeah

[fluid holly]

i always notice this when i get close to water that the cloud reflections just horrible in every pack and they like fade into diff positions idk how to explain

[limpid sequoia]

that's normal too

because of wavy water

[fluid holly]

damn so ig i will live w it

[limpid sequoia]

if u don't like it just turn wavy water off

[fluid holly]

right but this has to be smth they can improve right? like java water and rtx water does not look like this when it comes to cloud reflections

[limpid sequoia]

i'm not sure

[white willow]

i dont entirely know what you mean here?

nothing looks wrong with the cloud reflections

they get lower res with distance as a performance optimization

they are also aligned to a pixel grid

because VV has pixelated reflections

even the "disabled pixelation" for ssr isnt fully non pixel aligned. its just aligned to a 1024 pixel grid so it appears like its normal

[languid mirage]

Reflection update time. watch the cloud reflection for a min, you'll notice it only updates every 5s or so.

[white willow]

Ah well now that's just a limitation of how they did it

Considering it's basically rendering the entire sky as a cubemap for IBL

IMO there's nothing wrong with what they did

But it would be nice if the update speeds were quicker

[languid mirage]

doesn't bother me much, but it is a difference i notice. definitely would be nice if update time was quicker for pc/console

[white willow]

Generally what I can gather, what they did is really fast and optimized

Whereas for example Java shaders can't take advantage of rendering that as an image and instead need to compute the reflections in real time

Which is more costly

And well for bedrock RTX, I think it's obvious why they update correctly lol

But yea VVs sky reflections are basically the equivalent of a baked reflection probe lmao

Except with tweaks to update every so often

[languid mirage]

i figured. gotta support mobile after-all

[quasi trench]

you’ll only find what you want with patch app or betterrenderdragon

if not then you’ll have to play with vibrant visual resource packs like luminous dreams or prizma visuals instead

[rancid seal]

Some pics

[limpid sequoia]

[median mortar]

Quick question: can water fog actually be removed (or almost removed) in VV mode? (I can't seem to do it with biome fog and water settings, don't know if it's a bug.)

[limpid sequoia]

in fog configs

[median mortar]

yah I've got an ocean fog file with everything set to max distance, and fog_appearance in the ocean biome points to it.

to debug, I set the fog to red, and it's turning the sides of blocks underwater bright red, as well as the kelp, but none of the bluish water fog that still remains is red.

I know deferred rendering is supposed to have some inherent trouble with transparency, but this much?

lol

[limpid sequoia]

what happened?

[limpid sequoia]

max density

[white willow]

Nope it really is that thick. Water fog density isn't controlled by the fog file either

Water fog is controlled by the particle concentrations in the water file

But even setting them all to 0 doesn't change anything much

Water fog in the fog file changes the color of lighting underwater as you showed above

[median mortar]

Cheers, I felt I couldn't see any other options to change the water when camera is immersed - so it is meant to be like that in VV. I assume the uneven block tint will get smoothed out at some stage.

[drowsy lantern]

Resource pack name?

[limpid sequoia]

my project

[wise hinge]

custom color grading, custom sun rotation path, custom rayleigh intensity + default vv
default vv looks really nice with aces

[languid mirage]

100 chunks

[quasi trench]

the beauty of bedrock distance

i wonder how much chunk distance we can see IRL

[tribal trail]

I can see only 2 without my glasses

[limpid sequoia]

[wise hinge]

I can see nothing without my contact lenses

[limpid sequoia]

[willow needle]

Strawberry Realism R2 RTX 512x

[limpid sequoia]

[quick nymph]

I can see 1 blurry chunk if I squint (without my contacts)

[languid mirage]

Significantly more.

Assuming you’re extremely high up - and it’s an extremely clear day. (No clouds etc)

Probably a couple hundred mc chunks.

1 chunk = 16x16 blocks. 1 block = 1 meter.

So 1 chunk is about 16 meters.

At about 100 meters above sea level - the horizon line is around 22 miles out according to google.

100 chunks is 1600 meters. Roughly 0.9 miles.

So 22 miles would be 2200 chunks (Really rough estimate)

And that’s only at 100 blocks above sea level (in-game)…

[quick nymph]

To be exact, on a flat surface such as ocean humans can see 5km due to the earth's curviture so, 5000 / 16 = 312.5 in real life we should be able to see 312.5 chunks.

[languid mirage]

As I said “at 100 blocks above sea level”

Although yeah, the distance decreases or increases significantly based on height.

[wise hinge]

da fog

[limpid sequoia]

but thin on the ground

just a little trick

[limpid sequoia]

[fading kindle]

Early Early Early Teaser

[wise hinge]

🔥

[wise hinge]

What does each parameter do?

[white willow]

I haven't figured out the effects of log_luminance_range yet but:

• first value controls how bright or dark the overall exposure is. Larger number = darker image smaller number = brighter image. (It's in negatives so -1.0 would be quite dark and -8.0 would be really bright for example)
• The third and fourth value controls how much the light will compensate for bright or dark areas.
• the last three control the speed of adaptation

[wise hinge]

thanks!

[wise hinge]

Jingle bell

[limpid sequoia]

i thought u just said Jungle bell

[wise hinge]

[rancid seal]

WIP. Creating the rtx resource pack with official minecraft trailer textures.

Making a minecraft trailer, lol

Progress.

[quasi trench]

hmmmm me likey

[limpid sequoia]

Sunset for Taiga
-# i tried much color to get good color for green fog

[rancid seal]

Taiga - not sunset, but sunrise

[rancid seal]

Become RTX banana cat

[wise hinge]

change to CatRTX - banana

[lethal goblet]

i want to try cubemap settings but i don't notice changes with different values

[rancid seal]

You should be ray-traced banana cat(((

[wise hinge]

[rancid seal]

I am waiting😭

[wise hinge]

[rancid seal]

I lost my 1.5 year nitro today(

[rancid seal]

I did it... kinda.

[tropic rampart]

Change to 'Cat (Banana, RTX)' matching Clone (Episode III, Swamp) from LEGO star wars

[rancid seal]

Yeah, cherry. Had no time to pick a good location :(

[tropic rampart]

Not quite what i was going for but it is interesting

[rancid seal]

Minecraft RTX

[ornate hollow]

keep it

the end horror theme

[tropic rampart]

The goal is a mostly pale, desaturated End, except for when the light flashes happen where it's just this intense red.

so, the issues here are:

• it's VERY pixelated (which, i guess isn't bad by itself)
• the bottom of the skybox is this bright red by default

but like yeah, it looks quite fun this way, too.

[thorn bison]

looks great 🔥

[rancid seal]

Minecraft RTX

[limpid sequoia]

[rancid seal]

I thought it was a cherry biome for a sec

[limpid sequoia]

i have never added that fog to cherry

only cold taiga own it

[rancid seal]

It has like pink fog, that I usually see on screenshots made in cherry biome.

Like that, for example. (This is RTX)

[limpid sequoia]

white fog + red orange -> that color

[rancid seal]

The fog u are using is actually good. But unfortunately for me, there is nowhere I can use it(

[rancid seal]

So what fog are you using for the regular taiga?

(I haven't been working with fogs for a long time tho, maybe I could update them)

[limpid sequoia]

only for cold taiga

[rancid seal]

I understood it, which one you use for the regular (not cold) taiga?

[limpid sequoia]

nothing

i can make that fog for regular taiga but i didn't

[rancid seal]

I have this fog for cold taiga.

[limpid sequoia]

my fog looks white not blue

[rancid seal]

I have almost the same fog for frozen plains, but you can see it only in places like this.

[limpid sequoia]

[rancid seal]

Anyway, plains is one of the most favorite biomes. It is just perfect for me.

[fading kindle]

big problem, idk how to make a spotlight

[limpid sequoia]

[signal nebula]

Can someone help me on this

[deft cradle]

Huh

Just add the texture link them up and that’s all

[rancid seal]

Why vanilla minecraft water material is so weird?

[rancid seal]

@limpid sequoia what fog do you have for this biome?

[limpid sequoia]

green

[rancid seal]

Oh, wow

[rancid seal]

Uhh, for desert?

I have this one (it is okay that sun is darker then usual, im doing some experiements with it)

[limpid sequoia]

pale orange

[rancid seal]

Well, I have dark orange-yellow. I wanted to make this fog when it's rain time, but sadly, there is no rain in the desert lol.

I wonder why there aren't a lot of bedrock rtx resource packs with wavy plants, round sun/moon, etc. A lot of them try to keep minecraft style in some ways.

I deleted wavy plants from my pack because of atlas issues, where textures started randomly breaking in the game eventually.

Like the half of the texture was okay, and the other half was like a random mer map texture.

Idk if I have a screenshot

[rancid seal]

I remembered Minecraft 1.16 trailer for one reason, the nether in it was so much better then in the Minecraft imo.

[limpid sequoia]

if i gets atlas issue my way is add more texture

[rancid seal]

I don't even know why this issue happens only in the new worlds. You see, when I joined the one I created before this issue happened, everything was working fine.

So thank you very much, Minecraft bedrock

[limpid sequoia]

🗿

[limpid sequoia]

i'm not sure

atlas issue only happens to me when deleted some textures

[rancid seal]

Interesting... I just started minecraft one time and saw this issue happening to me, but I didn't delete any texture before. The fun fact is, as I said, this issue didn't happen in the old worlds.

[languid mirage]

broooo. installed bRTX now i crash loading a world

[rancid seal]

Bro, I had this problem even without better RTX on 26.0.23 I think

They also broke global resources loading iirc

[languid mirage]

I was okay no BRTX.. install iridiscence preset = dead

[white willow]

it being blurred like this is a denoising issue.

tbh reflections on all surfaces in rtx get too much denoising and have any and all details fully destroyed

[rancid seal]

I hate the thing that we can't actually set custom normal map using a resource pack

[white willow]

left is with tweaked reprojection and extended range on the vanilla rtx water normal and right is vanilla

[white willow]

betterRTX enables this functionality if you wanted to make a custom preset with that enabled

[rancid seal]

Please keep @ on

[rancid seal]

The only thing j don't like about vanilla water is that you can't make it wavy using a resource pack. It isn't customizable enough

[white willow]

default vs tweaked reflection denoising. it really does make a HUGE difference in quality of reflections

(ignore the lighting differences that is unrelated)

[languid mirage]

hm

[rancid seal]

I see the difference, but it isn't that big. I can see some changes in glass block material tho

[languid mirage]

vanilla MC screenshots dont capture RTX

[rancid seal]

They said they fixed that

[white willow]

the biggest difference is really just how much of the material detail is returned and how much of the blurring is removed

[languid mirage]

Apparently not lol

[rancid seal]

Yeah, I understand it

[white willow]

heres a zoom in. you can see how much more normal map detail is preserved from the tweaked denoising.

[rancid seal]

Yeah. There is difference, but im used to play with default rtx and... idk, im just used to this blurred reflections.

[white willow]

i think some of the glass material differences are from betterRTX stuff

i think theres something that improves transparent materials

cuz the blue glass def looks better and more correct in the betterRTX images

[rancid seal]

I still love these clouds... Until they start bugging out.

I want to see volumetric clouds in RTX

[rancid seal]

And yeah. I actually hate RTX default sky.

[white willow]

i still think more tweaking to this could have been done because they definitely could have avoided as much of the detail loss as they did. our solution isnt perfect but it makes quite a sizeable difference. (left is default)

[rancid seal]

The bottom of the sky is just really dark, the horizon looks bad

[white willow]

its not super doable with good performance. if you wanna get technical tho. rtx's clouds are volumetric

[rancid seal]

That's why I use custom sky for rtx

[rancid seal]

Oh, well. I mean I want to see custom shapes of the clouds, because I want more realism.

[white willow]

in order to get custom shapes (and have it run good) we'd need to be able to precompute a noise texture, which isnt super easy to do with rtx. you'd have to force users to have a resource pack on that provides the specific texture the shader would be looking for since you can access custom textures in resource packs from the shader now. but even then if you wanted to brute force it and generate the noise shader side, itll end up being really costly. its just not an easy task

its not impossible, just improbable at this time

the best you can do for custom shaping is to just replace the vanilla mc cloud texture

but it doesnt really change much

[rancid seal]

Yeah, that's obvious that it is gonna be hard to do that and to have a good performance.

[rancid seal]

Yeah, but they still we look like flying cubes in the sky.

[white willow]

why i said its not really great for that

[rancid seal]

And the last thing I don't like is default rtx sky. What do you think about it?

[white willow]

I don't like it

But it's less how the sky looks and more so a problem with RTX itself

I think the sky looks fine when my main issue with it is adressed

Which is that default RTXs auto exposure does not include the sky

Which is why it's so bright on the eyes

[rancid seal]

As I said before, the only thing I don't like about the sky atm. I use custom sky texture which is more blue, darker, and don't have problems with horizon

[white willow]

That is a bit better. The default sky to me is also too desaturated at times

[rancid seal]

It is good taht we have ability to change RTX sky, but unfortunately, not by a resource pack.

I don't use brtx really often, so I have created my own preset with ray-leigh sky turned off.

Because if ray-leigh sky is on, it will not display correctly.

[signal nebula]

Oh

[rancid seal]

Can you show me how does it look like on daytime?

[limpid sequoia]

i patched the sun angle

[languid mirage]

refraction 😫

[gloomy abyss]

Beautiful sky

[rancid seal]

Wip

Not everything is done yet, especially fogs

I still have to watch every Minecraft trailer carefully

I also have to make some experiments with the sun, because the vanilla one is too large and weird

[languid mirage]

More refraction 😩

RTX Ancient City & Trials Chamber

[rancid seal]

Isn't trial chamber is too dark?

I feel like something's wrong with copper bulb PBR

[rancid seal]

Oh wait, I think pale garden is also broken in my pack

[limpid sequoia]

[limpid sequoia]

why is it?

[rancid seal]

I was experimenting with the fog of this biome, but the endt day I completely forgot about it. I will show you how it looks like (in 10 minutes +-, ig)

[limpid sequoia]

[rancid seal]

I feel like my resource pack is actually ruined. Tons of bugs, broken fog, and more.

Of course, everything can be fixed. Im jus tired of discovering new problems tbh.

[limpid sequoia]

fix it

[rancid seal]

As I know, I only have to fix pape garden, and ocean rn.

Oh, and pbr of textures for custom block models, lol

But, honestly, I want to work with other projects rn. So I think, I should fix the main things in my pack, and then move to creating others.

[limpid sequoia]

why is it so much issues?

[rancid seal]

1. First of all, I become too lazy for some reasons.
2. Sometimes I forget to test some things. Of course, there is not small chance that I discover the issue after the new version of the pack is released.

I just don't want to work on things I've already done, that's the problem.

[limpid sequoia]

if u lazy why don't do something a little bit

[rancid seal]

Because I make projects I want to do. But sometimes, they aren't really successful and have problems.

For me it is not really easy to work alone, so that's why there are some things I forgot to fix.

Rn, I try to fix as many issues as I can find in my pack.

That made the latest version of my pack not that broken.

I am focused on fogs, sun and other things right now. (Old screenshot)

And of course, I work on other projects.

[rancid seal]

I am going to call this pack "Trailer dreams", port it to vv too. I feel it can be more successful then other packs I have.

And yes... that will be the first time I work with vv.

[limpid sequoia]

i have never confident at my projects because ik anything made by human never be perfect

[rancid seal]

But firstly, I want to finally fix the main issues in this pack.

[limpid sequoia]

and that's fine

[limpid sequoia]

try a little bit until u feel happy with it

i also doing that it until i smile that's mean "it's fine" because of "Dopamine Hit"

[rancid seal]

Here you are

It is broken

[limpid sequoia]

lol

[rancid seal]

I will fix it now, because why not

[rancid seal]

Well, that's better.

Woah

I love it

[languid mirage]

idk, seemed fine for me. that was betterRTX too

[rancid seal]

Oh, I haven't been using brtx for month or more iirc

[rancid seal]

@limpid sequoia Rate it pls 😭

[wise hinge]

[limpid sequoia]

[rancid seal]

So...?

[limpid sequoia]

what?

[limpid sequoia]

i"ll rate -10/10

[rancid seal]

-10?! 😭

[limpid sequoia]

yeah ofc!

[rancid seal]

[rancid seal]

Go touch some

[limpid sequoia]

i prefer touch my eggplant than it

[rancid seal]

WHAAAT

[limpid sequoia]

[rancid seal]

We saw everything.

[limpid sequoia]

new tempered glass made my phone screen darken

[limpid sequoia]

K

[quasi trench]

https://tenor.com/view/beautiful-whoa-lord-of-the-rings-gif-19620923

[limpid sequoia]

lmao

[willow needle]

Strawberry Realism R2 512x RTX

[rancid seal]

For me grass blocks look a paperboard, and trees look like they were made using some sort of Roblox material. It looks more strange then realistic for me.

Like, what is that tree with white log? We don't have this type of trees in Minecraft.

[limpid sequoia]

why don't you try to make anything better than that when u don't have anything better than?

[rancid seal]

I have the right to criticize something.

I have the similar project, rtx pack with realistic textures and models. Unfortunately, it is paused rn.

Some projects requires less time to be done. That's why I don't have the similar pack released.

[blazing whale]

make the texture so that it connects, because it really looks like the texture doesn't match

[rancid seal]

R u talking about grass blocks?

[limpid sequoia]

blur 🫃

when i zoomed it

[wise hinge]

fxaa.

i use reshade just for it because taau in vv is extremely blurry. (why did you zoom lol)

[white willow]

It's crazy how much just even the simplest of AA helps at native

[limpid sequoia]

[languid mirage]

literally the best mod/addon

[primal girder]

BoB

[rancid seal]

Sometimes RTX just looks so perfect for me

[limpid sequoia]

[blazing whale]

ertiex shader

[limpid sequoia]

rtex shadar 🗿

[rancid seal]

Erteix

Why the water in the trailer looks like broken RTX water?

[willow needle]

The reference you see is that the water is flat, you can improve it with ray tracing or a custom ray tracing shader, and don't forget to make mer on the water

[rancid seal]

RTX water material is not standart. You can't just use mer on it.

It is possible to make it reflective, but not using mer maps

[thorn bison]

fr

[rancid seal]

That's not vv

[sonic canopy]

I suppose you could technically make the water rough, by using very high resolution normal maps.

[languid mirage]

W RTX lava.

[white willow]

early sunrise

[fading kindle]

hold up i have a better one (but private)

my competitive drive has been through the roof these days, no idea why. but it's a shame I can't come up with anything fresh to show for it

btw quick question how to add custom skybox for vibrant visual?

[languid mirage]

java? Crackers is the best. just needs to get updated 1.21+

My ss is Bedrock decayed reality v2. just released a few days ago. its basically perfect except no bowels atm.

[fading kindle]

absolute bedrock

[languid mirage]

nice. hard to say whats better - but id put my $ on decayedv2. full VV support, 1:1 mc:sm witherstorm animations + items etc. RTX support broke on v2 but should get fixed.

[silk badge]

does anyone have the vanilla MERS texture pack?

[silent zealot]

Check the vanilla packs

[astral hatch]

Vanilla Packs

Downloadable from: https://github.com/Mojang/bedrock-samples/releases

bedrock.dev archive: https://bedrock.dev/packs
GitHub (RP & BP) : https://github.com/bedrock-dot-dev/packs

Example particles: https://aka.ms/MCParticlesPack

Java Edition's Vanilla Packs: https://mcasset.cloud/

Jan 2, 2026, 12:02 AM

[silk badge]

Oke thanks

[silk badge]

so a color value of #000000 just makes pixels look like glass?

[blazing whale]

Try (255, 0, 0)

[silk badge]

000000 worked

But how tf does sea lanterns work

[silent zealot]

Wdym?

[silk badge]

Im looking at the tga file for the mers and I see a blank textures

But it seems like the rgbs values are all in the foreground

Which idk how to view

[silent zealot]

Your editor might have fucked it up

[silk badge]

Im using gimp 😭

[silent zealot]

If you colour pickwhat do you get? Can we see a screenshot?

[silk badge]

it shows different colors at different pixels

[silk badge]

Got something working

Wish the light inside looked more of a different color

[rancid seal]

Unfortunately, (if we are talking about rtx), that's not possible only with a resource pack.

[fading kindle]

is it possible to add custom skybox to vibrant visual pack?

[willow needle]

Yes

[fading kindle]

thank god at least i dont need to use entity to make skybox in vv

[willow needle]

Strawberry Realism

[white willow]

It works like vanilla does. VV also has cubemap customization parameters.

Idk how they work cuz I don't use them but

You can adjust how fog and lighting works with them and whatnot

Oh also

VV supports HDRI images

But you need to convert them into a 6 sided cubemap

HDRIs tho used to be way too bright for use but with the new parameters I think it'll be very useable now

[fading kindle]

the only downside of vv is that it's not RTX

im so jealous of vv

[rancid seal]

However, vv is another Mojang's tool to make money.

Personally, I would be glad if vv gets deleted

[limpid sequoia]

lmao
lol

[white willow]

vv should not be deleted. while yes they have sold vv and it does make them more money than rtx probably ever would. VV reaches almost everyone who plays bedrock. its a net positive for all users, even if its visually worse than rtx in some aspects

and its being implemented on java too.

[rancid seal]

It is a good tool for making minecraft look beautiful, but there is one problem. It is everywhere. Mojang really tries to make me start playing with vv

[pale urchin]

How is that a problem?

[white willow]

why is it being everywhere an issue? its meant to be the new look of the game

its meant to be the new graphics style of the game to "replace fancy"

of course they want you to use it.

[rancid seal]

I just have no point.of using it. I usually play on servers. Of course, it is comfortable to pvp with fancy/simple graphics modes. Vv cannot be used oj some servers tho. I also love speedrunning. I need a huge render distance and the big amount of fps, so I also don't really need it. And sometimes I just wanna chill in the modded minecraft world. I wanna get beautiful graphics... of course I use rtx.

[white willow]

by still dont see why vv should be deleted because you can jsut use rtx

[pale urchin]

Yeah. What you're asking for is so extreme when you could just turn it off

[white willow]

like yes i could just use rtx, but ive generally enjoyed playing the game more with VV on than i have playing the game with rtx on personally

i love using rtx for screenshots and making pbr textures

and its also fun to mess with as a betterRTX dev cuz the code never really changes

but if im playing the game, my own personal vv pack provides a much nicer experience for me

[rancid seal]

When vv is a cool graphics mode, marketplace is still there. I wanna throw my pc to the window when I see this stupid vv packs ad. I know that's more marketplace problem, bit still, that's anjoying. I create a world with RTX, and see Vv packs ad.

[pale urchin]

So you just have a marketplace problem. Not a VV problem

[long ruin]

[rancid seal]

The only thing I don't like about rtx is that it is buggy as hell. Broken clouds, flickering chunks, and more.

[white willow]

i dont wanna be that guy but... you could just... ignore it.

[pale urchin]

Deleting VV just because they advertise pack enhancements is crazy 😭

[rancid seal]

We can't use rtx PBR in lots of Minecraft marketplace world (including RTX maps) because of vv. It just makes me sad

[pale urchin]

Deleting VV won't magically fix that

[rancid seal]

Yeah, I can, but it is annoying. Im getting annoyed when I see that cool graphics mode becomes a tool of making money.

[pale urchin]

If RTX were expanded to the same level as VV, I guarantee they would do the same thing

[rancid seal]

The things are already broken, Mojang, of course, refuse to fix that.

[white willow]

i am slightly upset that this is an issue cuz i used to use Hermitcraft IX for visual showcases and the map doesnt get pbr anymore. but i got an external download of Hermitcraft X which has been an incredible map for visual testing

[rancid seal]

Well, at this point, Mojang doesn't know a lot about rtx engine. So that's a project that is going to start dying in the future. Well, its already dying tho.

[white willow]

even been using it to test my java shader.

[pale urchin]

In fact, weren't they planning on selling texture packs for SDGP?

[long ruin]

Yeah I think so

[white willow]

im pretty sure sdgp was a paid dlc

unless im misremembering

[pale urchin]

Even worse 😭

[rancid seal]

Oh well, I forgot that default rtx water is a broken trash.

[tropic rampart]

yeah, what we ended up getting is the best option.

SDGP was going to be a paid DLC, RTX is limited in terms of which platforms it's available on

VV is available almost everywhere, and maintains the minecraft visual style much better.

[white willow]

and is free to use

[tropic rampart]

yeah

[white willow]

say what you want about the default config, some love it, some say its complete garbage. but its still better than how it could have ended up

[tropic rampart]

it is currently missing stuff RTX has, and isn't as customizable on console as SDGP would have been

but even with that, it's the ideal approach to this.

i think RTX would make sense eventually, but that'd need major improvements and would only be able to happen once most of the playerbase is on RTX capable hardware.

[pale urchin]

Things can be done now, but that requires some corporate will

[white willow]

i mean it was meant to be added to consoles. which wouldve been huge.

but the consoles actually running it is a different story

i mean the leaked xbox build apparently wasnt that great performance wise

[tropic rampart]

tbh i think they could have done it but idk how well it'd work on XSS and switch 2.

[pale urchin]

the switch 2?

[tropic rampart]

i mean, it is a current gen system is it not

[white willow]

it has rt functionality but

[tropic rampart]

it's gonna get a minecraft version eventually.

[white willow]

i doubt it could run mcrtx

[tropic rampart]

i just wish we had the editor on console.

so we could make VV packs there

[white willow]

xss struggled to get 30fps on the leaked build afaik

[tropic rampart]

even just the VV functionality of the editor

[pale urchin]

We would need file explorer access

The current way to make VV packs requires that

[tropic rampart]

yeah but to be fair, that build was also unfinished. If it was finished they'd have made it avaiable in preview at least.

VV also ran much worse initially.

[white willow]

rtx is unfinished even on pc

[tropic rampart]

like, i struggled to get a stable framerate with early deferred rendering on XSS

but now it generally runs fine

not great (mojang lower the target resolution already)

but not bad either

[white willow]

oh early vv ran like hot buns

its much improved now

it can and should still be way better

[tropic rampart]

yeah. So why couldn't the same improvements happen with rtx?

[white willow]

if they did a redo of rtx it would be way better than what we got. we have things like Re-Stir now which didnt exist when rtx was in dev. we also have stuff like ray reconstruction and so many better acceleration structures compared to 2020

a modern mcrtx if it actually got proper dev time would go crazy im sure

but the rtx we got is, especially compared to other games, quite dissapointing

but also to cut it just a minisucle amount of slack. mc was one of the first games to do full path tracing in real time

water for example is so ugly. not because its flat no. i dont hate that its flat

its that not only does it look and feel like a sheet of glass, the reflections are blurry and look like plastic

VVs water is much more visually appealing imo

[tropic rampart]

yeah they rushed it because it was a nvidia promotion

[white willow]

no thats not why

[tropic rampart]

no? Would Mojang still have done it that early without nvidia promotion?

[white willow]

from what we were told by an ex dev, they had a one year deadline to produce a fully raytraced graphics mode with nvidias help. then some devs left the studio and management refused to backfill with new devs

[tropic rampart]

well yeah that's another issue

but like, if they had waited with RTX and did it when they knew they could rather than doing it because of an nvidia promotion

maybe they'd have given it a longer amount of time and could actually implement all of that

[tropic rampart]

I wonder when they'll return to rtx

[white willow]

probably never

[tropic rampart]

i feel like they will.

probably not in the near future

but i feel like there's a chance they eventually decide there's potential there and everyone will be playing on capable enough hardware.

[tropic rampart]

would it be possible for rtx to do the same pixelated shadows as VV has?

[white willow]

yes

madlad did it

with betterRTX

pixelated reflections, gi and bloom too

only thing they didnt get working was pixelated refraction

[tropic rampart]

so yeah, they could still maintain the VV style but using RTX to make stuff look better.

so i think, maybe 2030, maybe 2035, but it will happen eventually.

for now hopefully we get more VV improvements.

now we have point lights and static light, we just need light colour changing through coloured transparent blocks (stained glass, ice) and then we can get a drop dedicated entirely to colored lighting. (at least, once java also gets it. But given that it's been done by a lot of shaders at this point with minimal performance cost, i think Mojang could also do it)

[languid mirage]

once consoles can better handle ray tracing - maybe. Then there will be more reason for it.

although its still super unlikely. RTX works. why fix what isn't broken

[rancid seal]

Nah, pixelated shadows will ruin rtx

[rancid seal]

Because rtx IS broken.

Clouds are bugging out, end portal material doesn't work properly, chunks are flickering...

[rancid seal]

Noo. I don't think mojang should make drop that only improves vv features.

[tropic rampart]

I mean, i think the features could still be useful for everyone, but primarily focused on VV

[pale urchin]

I don't see them attempting to match VV development time frame on Bedrock and Java

[tropic rampart]

Like, my idea for it is a new coloured light source, and a new coloured transparent block (ideally coloured ice), maybe some new reflective block too.
That's still good without VV, but it's clearly a VV-focused feature set.

[rancid seal]

Like what? Rtx shouldn't have vv style imo.

[tropic rampart]

I replied to the last thing you said

Not the earlier one.
But in terms of that, i think RTX should have as much control for creators as VV.

[rancid seal]

Augh, didn't see that

[rancid seal]

That's not the reason to create the drop connected only to vv tho. Some players will get Minecraft updates, and seing nothing new.

[tropic rampart]

They'd still get decorative blocks

They wouldn't look as good as with VV but would surely have some use.

[rancid seal]

(Which were made for vv users )

[rancid seal]

Lol waiting 3 month to get some decorative blocks is insane

End update will be more useful at this point

[tropic rampart]

I want an end update and a new dimension update but for a small drop, i want something that lets me really make use of colored lighting

And that adds more colorful decorative blocks currently missing.

Could also add concrete slabs and stairs for example

[rancid seal]

Rtx users -
Default graphics users - 😭
Vv users -

[tropic rampart]

VV is the intended default look for the game now. Future updates will look far better with VV than without it. Might as well improve it as much as possible.

Like, pale garden looks so much better with VV

Same with the End Update, VV makes it look so much better

[rancid seal]

Minecraft never got the entire update for the graphics mode, so lucky, that's not gonna happen.

[tropic rampart]

Well yeah, i'm not suggesting one that's just for VV only. As i said, i want a drop that adds decorative blocks that'd already be good without VV, but that also make use of VV's colored lighting.

[rancid seal]

Isn't that good enough?

[rancid seal]

So, not only vv...

[tropic rampart]

Well yeah but you need an RP for this. VV makes the pale garden look good in vanilla

[rancid seal]

Rtx was not designed to be one of the "main" graphics modes. Rtx also has vanilla pbr and volumetric fogs. This is a tool for creators to make the lightning looks insane. That's what I am talking about. I never use vv, so as the rtc user I am going to wait for 3 months to get some decorative blocks tho, am not I?

[white willow]

Well if something is made with the intention of being used for VV, it can be used in RTX if not better than VV handles it

For example, pout mentioned colored ice

That would be nuts in raytracing

[rancid seal]

Game drops should bring us new biomes, entities and just more content to make Minecraft world better. But not tons of decorations that I will not use, and some graphical changes I will never see. That's I am talking about

[white willow]

Assuming it's not packed ice and it's transparent ice, with some clever normalmap usage you could do some nutty things with refraction

Or blocks that are meant to be used for colored lighting, again that would end up being way better in RTX. It wouldn't be a "only works in VV" thing lol

[rancid seal]

01:39 for me, why am I not sleeping😭

[languid mirage]

only issue I noticed was clouds flickering & end portal being pure black. those aren't major issues & clouds aren't always like that.

[white willow]

However i do not believe an update should be focused on vv exclusively. What would that do for Java

Cool new deco blocks that they cant use to their fullest extent.

I mean yea Java has its own shaders that could probably utilize the blocks but majority of Java players don't use shaders or even mod the game despite what you see online

[rancid seal]

Clouds bug happens whenever I fly or move. This makes me annoyed. Also, chunks are flickering whenever they update. Visual effects (particles, for example), don't work properly too. Player names are not displaying.

There are a lot of stuff that should be fixed

But it's not

Sometimes rtx looks perfect, but in reality, its not(

Oh, and one of the most annoying bugs for me. Block breaking texture is also flickering, becoming emissive or reflective. It doesn't render correctly. Ahh.

And yes, we are not talking about new features (for example, entity pbr support) that should be 100% added to rtx.

01:47 for me, I'm gonna sleep, good night

[quick nymph]

Just because you won't use them doesn't mean that every other player won't use them or like them. Not everything that mojang add is going to fit everyone's opions and wants.

[limpid sequoia]

it's better than u not take care of it!

[river geyser]

Is there any way to get the end portal texture onto a particle/entity/block?

i read that it's a shader, but couldn't find any shader tutorials

[tropic rampart]

I mean, i'm assuming if they were to do this, they'd add colored lighting to java, too.

[rancid seal]

Even if playersdon't use things that game drops add, they will see changes. For example: if you don't use happy ghast, you'll see dried ghasts in the nether, or get a new music disk when kill a ghast with its fireball. If the game drop will only add some changes connectetd only to vv, players (especially on java edition) will just see nothing new while exploring their world.

That's why adding new vv feautres shouldn't be a topic for he entire game drop or even a version.

[rancid seal]

Night

[quick nymph]

They never are though, pout was talking about adding features like glowing ice that can be used as a decorative block in the normal game and have other purposes. When the game gets an update it's never only about VV and it never will be, because mojang tries to cater to their entire playerbase not just a minority

[rancid seal]

So, that I was taking about. I said we shouldn't have a game drop taht only improves vv.

[tropic rampart]

Well yeah. It'd improve VV by adding things that improve the game in general.

But that have specific benefits with VV such as making use of colored lighting

Look at froglights. They're good without VV. But they're especially great with the new colored lighting in VV.

[rancid seal]

But they look even better with rtx tho.
So yeah, new things can basically be improvement for graphics modes at some point.

[tropic rampart]

Yeah

I just want more colorful lights to use for my builds

And more colorful transparent blocks

As right now we only have stained glass, while for opaque blocks you have wool, stained clay, concrete, concrete powder, glazed terracotta

[languid mirage]

VV runs like poo on my pc 😭 yet rtx i get 60-90fps.

[tropic rampart]

I made the things i was talking about earlier. As you can see, they'd still be useful without VV, but would just be way better for when you are using it.

[limpid sequoia]

🫃

light color for mer

[rancid seal]

Well, it's just like

Simple < Fancy < VV < RTX

[quasi trench]

on a bright enough display this could be super immersive

[quick nymph]

Flash Bang!!

[silk badge]

That looks beautiful

I made some blocks like those green tubes recently lol

[limpid sequoia]

fr

[blazing whale]

need fix your fog

[quasi trench]

https://tenor.com/view/caleuche-caleuche-moment-duras-valorant-flashbang-gif-24299785

[rancid seal]

Nah it's fine

[white willow]

Yk I just thought of something and I'm surprised it's actually never been brought up at all (or maybe it has and I just don't remember)

We have fog height scaling with max_density_height and zero_density_height

What about a fog_start_height

So fog will only begin accumulating above that start height

So for example if you wanted to start fog at y-76 anything below Y-76 wouldn't have any fog at all

This would work a lot better if fog was blending in world space rather than player space like the water fog is. Cuz then you could see fog accumulating at the tips of mountains and stuff with this

Cuz the water fog doesn't need you to be in the biome for it to transition

So if that could somehow be done with the volumetrics, it could honestly be be very revolutionary

Maybe I'm underestimating potential performance costs

[wise hinge]

oh that would be cool

[languid mirage]

these are better. BSL I guess is best.

[sonic canopy]

You could flip the density gradient and have fog start at certain height and extend to infinity upwards

Iirc

[willow needle]

Strawberry Realism R1 2048x with D5 Render

[wise hinge]

colored lights

[limpid sequoia]

[quasi trench]

whats with all the java graphics

coinciding with wither storm spam

[hearty seal]

Idk

Mine was bedrock but performance really tanks

[fading kindle]

I THINK using lots of cubes in Blender to simulate the effect of ocean waves, converting the model into a solid entity, and then viewing it in-game with VV or RTX may not yield particularly good results.

[languid mirage]

“Spam” is a crazy statement.

Also only the last 4 WitherStorm images are from Java. 😂

Figured I’d pop out the real Mod instead of the bedrock rip-offs for a min.

[hearty seal]

Bedrock rip offs is crazy when the entire concept isn’t really owned

Where do u think the witherstorm mod came from. Its not like there’s a story that has the witherstorm or something

[languid mirage]

Every Bedrock WitherStorm mod - tries copying or is a direct copy of CWSM.
The original Java mod.

On top of this - the only Java mod that is good and popular of the Wither Storm - is Crackers.

So yeah, Rip-offs.

Decayed reality isn’t a direct rip-off of CWSM anymore - however it still uses a ton of its ported assets.

[languid mirage]

Literally Crackers. 😂😂

the MOB came from the (storymode)game/show, obviously.

But nobody else brought it to the (main) game.

[hearty seal]

Im not going to argue but please define rip off

[languid mirage]

Oh, wow - the literal meaning doesn’t quite fit.

Sorry - is LOW quality - Shitty ports a better term?

[hearty seal]

If u say shitty ports then u can take that

[languid mirage]

? 😂

Shitty ports.

None of the actual CWSM team worked on the ports.

None of the ports work nearly as good.

[hearty seal]

Okay

[rancid seal]

Rayss

[wise hinge]

rain

with a pointlight

[silent zealot]

Please leave your feedback on Coloured Static Lighting and Point Lights here: https://discord.com/channels/523663022053392405/1458511788776755312

[wise hinge]

🔥 🔥 🔥

[languid mirage]

auto exposure data driven yet?

[quasi trench]

no static lights on playstation

although the point-lights seem massively optimized?

although acting weird

[wise hinge]

probably never?
I think they just need to fix too strong AE, besides it’s being strong it’s fine imo

[tribal trail]

Ssao when

[wise hinge]

shadow distance slider when

vl fog density keyframe when

[blazing whale]

Gi when on VV

[languid mirage]

Never

[tribal trail]

i think shadow quality slider control distance too

[tribal trail]

never

[wise hinge]

oh does it? I couldn’t see any change tho

there is a new parameter👀

in deferred lighting config too

[tribal trail]

at least it used to

[silent zealot]

This one afaik isnt new to this oreview, the frustrum was.

[wise hinge]

[white willow]

key framed skylight goes insane. you don't know how much of a difference this has made for me :p

im gonna work on tweaking things to be nicer

this helps clouds at night so much too

[pale urchin]

A before/after comparison would be great

[white willow]

i can go over to latest release and show off as best as possible

actually no lemme just set it to one frame at the same intensity i was using before

[white willow]

previous with a fixed skylight vs keyframed (night specifically)

[pale urchin]

So the shadows are darker

[white willow]

the clouds as well. they are darker in the distance

keyframed vs fixed

time 23500

you can get a way nicer looking golden hour