Super Duper Vanilla Shaders 1.21 / 1.20

Many outstanding Minecraft projects are abandoned. Super Duper Vanilla Shaders, inspired by an abandoned project, improves Minecraft’s appearance without altering textures or increasing resolution. This shader pack aims to make vanilla Minecraft more photorealistic and modern using lighting. Visuals depend on lighting, and Super Duper Vanilla Shaders shows what the Minecraft engine can do when pushed. Interesting history links the Super Duper Vanilla Shader Pack to the Graphics Pack. E3 2017 introduced Super Duper Graphics. The 2019 cancellation was unfortunate. Super Duper Vanilla Shaders emulates the look of the discontinued Super Duper Graphics package. Super Duper Vanilla Shaders are one of the most popular shader sets from 2021. It has hundreds of thousands of downloads and developer updates. FlameRender Studios distributes Super Duper Vanilla Shaders. Still credits user Eldeston for package creation. Many like how vanilla Minecraft looks, however Super Duper Vanilla Shaders are beneficial. The package was meant to install without a resource package using vanilla. Initial development was that way. The game’s looks are unchanged, but the shader and lighting system are improved. Super Duper Vanilla Shaders improves several game features. Light flares and lighting are the biggest enhancements. Sunlight, Moonlight, fire, and other illuminations look better.

You can see light rays through the clouds and sky due to magnificent solar flares. It appears more like natural light. Sky texture is another major modification. Clouds remain the same, but light projection changes for the better. Sun and Moon are now rounder and emit light more naturally. Looking down to earth, Super Duper Vanilla Shaders delivers enhanced shadows and shades. Shadows on the ground are more lifelike because they better reflect the thing generating the shadow. They also glide better. The developer altered water textures to make them more realistic. Water’s light behavior has changed. Light now refracts in water more realistically. The reflections appear more natural. Other small improvements may go missed. Automatic exposure makes shadows less static. Weather effects are another. They’re better too. Gamma correction and flower rendering were also worthy of attention. Improved flower rendering beautifies sunrises and sunsets. Minecraft has no performance-free shader pack. Super Duper Vanilla Shaders are more demanding than resource packs. They can lower frame rate, especially on older systems. The shader package should work on modern hardware. If you favor vanilla Minecraft, Super Duper Vanilla Shaders may be worth sacrificing a few frames per second. The game looks amazing without altering the textures. Installing Super Duper Vanilla Shaders requires Optifine. Super Duper Vanilla Shaders needs specific characteristics like any shader kits. Manually installing it as a resource pack won’t work.