SEUS Renewed Shaders Mod for Minecraft

4.9/5 - (656 votes)

External visualizer programs do an excellent job of turning Minecraft’s worlds into beautifully lit landscapes, as these images from the SEUS Renewed Shaders Mod, but wouldn’t it be lovely to get some of that sparkle into the game in real-time?

Features:

Improved GI and SSAO
Super smooth Temporal Anti-Aliasing
Completely reworked system for day/night cycle based on atmospheric scattering
Accurate sunlight color via atmospheric scattering
Accurate ambient sky lighting from atmospheric scattering via Spherical Harmonics
New atmospheric scattering on distand land for a natural sense-of-scale
New underwater rendering
Normal/bump mapping from torch/artificial light
Screen-space shadow tracing for better contact shadows
Vastly improved performance with long render distance settings
Physically-based specular highlights from sunlight
Improved 2D clouds
Improved rendering of stained glass
New rain/wet effects
End and Nether shaders
Improved POM and POM self-shadowing
Improved shadows
Many more, too many to list here!

How to install

Make sure you have installed Minecraft Forge
Download Optifine HD and GLSL Shaders Mod.
Download the mod for your version of the game.
Locate the minecraft application folder.
- On windows open Run from the start menu, type %appdata% and click Run.
- On mac open finder, hold down ALT and click Go then Library in the top menu bar. Open the folder Application Support and look for Minecraft.
Put it in the ‘mods’ folder, which is located in the game folder.
Enjoy