Minecraft is far from being the best looking game available on PC, but a recently released shader pack makes the game look better than it ever did.
The latest version of Sonic Ether's Unbelievable Shaders, known as SEUS Renewed adds ray-tracing effects to Minecraft through path-tracing. Needless to say, these effects make a huge difference, but they also need a more powerful system to make the game run smoothly. Minecraft can run on pretty much anything nowadays, but the videos below have been captured on a system sporting a GTX 1070 Ti GPU.
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Here are some of the new features of SEUS Renewed:
- 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
You can learn more about the Minecraft SEUS Renewed shader pack by checking out the creator's Patreon page.
About the author: Francesco De Meo has been covering video games and technology since 2012, starting his career at small outlets like Gamersyndrome and GeekSnack. After joining Wccftech gaming section in 2015, he quickly expanded his video gaming coverage with in-depth reporting, interviews with iconic industry figures such as Grasshopper Manufacture founder and No More Heroes creator Goichi "Suda51" Suda, Resident Evil series creator Shinji Mikami, Team NINJA's president and Nioh series director Fumihiko Yasuda, and Silent Hill creator Keiichiro Toyama, reviews and on-the-ground coverage of major industry events such as Gamescom and E3. When he's not reporting or reviewing, Francesco can be found playing the genres he loves most, spending time with his six cats, reading, writing music, playing guitar and drumming for his progressive rock band.
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