Rethinking Voxels is so good, in my opinion, it's the most vanilla-friendly shaders. However, my only complaint is that I can't tell when the ocean is in different biomes from the top.
I prefer complementary reimagined, which is what it is based off. If rethinking voxels had the base settings of reimagined along with the features like colored lights, it would be perfect.
It is important to remember that it's just an edit of Complementary Reimagined with ray-traced block lights added. And unfortunately this video fails to showcase how the lighting completely breaks when too many light sources are placed near each other.
There's also SO MANT SETTING for it. You can make it look however you want! It can look like seus ptgi, or complementary, or pretty much any other shader.
Heya developer of Super Duper Vanilla here, and YYYYYYYYYOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO it's an absolute honor to have my shader included in your video! Too bad there were no End shots where the shader (currently) truly shines :C Nevertheless, your videos are the greatest and once again it's an honor to have Super Duper Vanilla included in this video! ❤❤
An unforgivable omission,End in SDV is just insanely beautiful! Also I am glad to see how your shader absolutely surpasses all others in performance, while having the best effects
I'm really, really glad bliss reached top 10 this year, despite the state it was showcased in! it is my fault for not making it immediately visible that the bliss version on the curseforge that was showcased was a very old version, and broken on iris (thats why plants were dark). i reserve curseforge uploads for major big releases, which is why it was so old.... anyways, i have a github with frequently updated versions of bliss, its VERY different now compared to then. due to this video i decided the github version is stable enough and rushed a bit and uploaded Bliss v2.0 to the curseforge, which is just the latest github version. Great video! your top 10 shader showcase is pretty large for giving shaders visibility, so im very glad!
I am absolutely loving Bliss, thank you so much for making it. I have a weird issue (very minor) and will check if the newer versions in your GitHub fix that.
Rethinking Voxels and NostalgiaVX are my 2 favorites from watching these. Rethinking Voxels has a very "Vanilla but better" style to it, and I love the way NostalgiaVX depicts the Nether and underwater
Solas runs incredibly well, and it has some very interesting features that as far as I know, no other shaders have (such as performant colored lighting based on bloom)
Unlike many of the "classic" shaders that haven't been updated in a while Nostalgia (not VX) was recently updated to v5 and it is amazing. Almost as good as NostalgiaVX with far superior performance.
@@drantigon Whoever told you that is wrong, shaderpacks are the same situation as with resourcepacks, as in no Mojang code or content is involved, thus they simply have no legal authority over it. Don't confuse this with the physics mod situation. Technically they are even less involved with Minecraft than resourcepacks are, since shaderpacks are made for a third party rendering pipeline thats added ontop of the base game through a mod, so really shaderpacks aren't even built for minecraft, but just that rendering pipeline which could also be implemented in other software as well.
Rethinking Voxels also has colored block lighting, like the soul lantern is a blue-ish color, frog lights have their specific light color, it’s pretty cool.
I'm geniunely saddened to see Rethinking Voxels getting mentioned instead of Complementary Reimagined, when most of the comparisons show absolutely zero features of Rethinking Voxels.
FastPBR looking gorgeous in all examples, deffo the one i'd consider using, soft voxels lite is a close second but FastPBR just looks the best consistantly in all scenarios with elements from the others in there that i liked too, just wish the nether was a touch less red shaded but you can't be in love with everything :P
In terms of practicality, I think Rethinking Voxels takes the cake and would be a shader I would see myself always leaving on. In terms of my favorite looking shaders tho, I think it's a close tie between PBR and Bliss
Honestly, I think the only one I liked throughout the entire video HAS to be Arc. Now I do have a hatred for that lava texture, and if there's nothing I would be able to do to get rid of it, it would easily go to one of the other shaders, but idk. Arc just feels so much more vibrant than all of the other ones. And you can actually see underwater without this fog filter over the top of it all!
I get over constant 60 fps with every other shader on 20 Render distance and about 45-50 fps with 12 Render distance when using Rethinking Voxels. Not worth it
PHOTON! PHOTON is the best shaderpack ever made, and I can't believe it's been missed off this list. You could probably spend an entire video talking about the incredible features of that shaderpack.
Thanks for these options man. I'm getting Minecraft soon and I haven't played for around 2 years and this helps a lot to choose which shaders to use I will consider using one of these as long as they don't take up much space.
Idk whats up with the Bliss shaders, but it just tickles my brain. The atmosphere is incredible in all of the scenarios, and for me, especially in the rain, it invokes the same feeling as it does in real life. I feel like they did a great job capturing that.
literally ALL of those were easily dethroned, seus is really old and most other rt packs have surpassed it already, sildurs is ALSO really old and kinda featureless, complimentary is still going strong but has definitely been surpassed, and bsl... long past
Ocean Sunrise - FastPBR Night - Rethinking Voxels Rain - NostalgiaVX Cave - Super Duper Vanilla Underwater - Rethinking Voxels Nether - Solas Shader Flying around - Rethinking Voxels Yeah, overall my choice would be Rethinking Voxels too, too bad the water dont have wave effect so it looks like ice from Ocean Sunrise angle, i love the night time not so pitch black cuz there is moon light when you're outside, The rain was not so bad it just the water drop was hard to see like it was not raining, i love the cave atmosphere like SDV just bring the light pop off for that actual glowing things, I think underwater looks real at this shader, shader usually become a hard option when it come at the nether and the end cuz its usually too dark and hard to navigate, At flying around most of them kinda foggy and i dont really into and this shader good at lighting too, not too bright, not too dark.
Ive been using Solas for a long time. I still like it best out of any of these, but next would be nostalgia. Im just not a fan of the clouds or underwater aspects. Super cool comparison video tho! Thanks!
i love how you made this list unique this year, it really displayed the true beauty of Minecraft as well as complimenting less known shaders, great vid.
arc just feels so oversharpened and unpleasant to me, personally. rethinking voxels just feels the best to me, both in terms of cinematics and playability. i like being able to see under shade whilst not burning my eyes outdoors. along with having perhaps a slightly lower saturation than the usual default values these shaders provide, so it doesn't have that ickiness i get from oversaturated thumbnails and such. that's my personal preference but i suspect i'm not alone with this.
something to note on super duper vanilla is it's VERY optimized even with it's visuals, surprisingly so - better than bsl/complimentary definitely one to consider for my fellow low-ends
I’m torn between nostalgia and rethinking voxels as those are the most vanilla friendly. I love the cave light system and vanilla but reflective water on rethinking voxels, but I love the fluffiness and abundance of clouds in nostalgia. I’m leaning towards rethinking voxels, but when you’re actually underwater, it looks a bit off. But good job on the video, and if I download a shader, I will use this video for reference.
Love your videos man, you may know this but you can use the cinematic camera toggle in the options to make your footage look smoother (for shaders), it's under the keybindings tab, keep up the good work!
You should look up Photon shaders, I think it also came out this year and it has been my new go to. It even has real clouds instead of just a skybox. It's a bit mid in low light, but drop dead GORGEOUS when its bright!
honestly nostalgia vx and rethinking voxels are good. if u have a high end pc i would try nostalgia vx, but if you are in the mid-low range, i recommend rethinking voxels. theyre both good but others like bliss and super duper vanilla are also some good ones. arc is also another good one i really like the water effects it has with the bubbling in the water and also the waves change their size depending on what weather your in. bliss is really cool because the fog adjusts itself to whatever biome your in and the graphics are really nice.
I know this is a priviliged question, but could you do a Rt shader video in the future? Maybe make some comparision to other shaders to see where the difference is, if there is one in the first place? I don't know much about shaders and haven't used 'em in several years now =)
I wish you would rank them in order of demand on the system. At least when each are in their default config. I would like to know least 2 or 3 demanding in this group.
Chocapics are incredible too without dropping that much FPS, running them on Extreme version (highest), no settings changed, went from about 350-400 fps to 80 with a gtx 1060
I can't wait for rethinking voxels to fully flesh themselves out, get all the bugs ironed out it really needs to be pushed into the lime light, i know there's a LOT of literally just what complimentary reimagined or whatever it's called does BUT NO SHADER DOES COLORS LIKE THIS ONE THAT I HAVE EVER SEEN LIKE THIS ONE, IT'S SO, FREAKING, GOOD AND I CAN BARRLY RUN THE THING!!!
been using rethingking voxels for months now. It is better in many ways and still very customizable. Some others in this list are pretty cool, thought.
quite impressive how youtube compression artefacts become so visible! it would be very cool to be able to "mix" shaders based on the environment.. IMHO rethinking voxels is the best overall, but lacks some lighting effects that could be blended in from one or the other shader based on the environment.
thanks for these you are the first youtuber I go to for shaders, mods and texture packs I feel like people don't give you enough credit for the showcases you do honestly amazing!
EDIT: Oh, and look at the FPS counter in the top right! Some shaders are quite heavy on performance. My two favorites of all of these are with the things I would customize in brackets: - Rethinking (night, nether dark are a bit too dark for my taste) - Solas (underwater, nether feel a bit too blurry) Overall, these two add this "alive" feeling to the footage you showed. I really like them!
Rethinking voxels is one of the few shaders that has different colour lighting making biomes like the deep dark look amazing as it’s bathed in a blue hue, my only complaint is how vanilla the water and sky look when compared to other shaders packs
You can tell that the 4090 goes hard because I can barely get 45 FPS on my RTX 3080 in 1080p while using NostalgiaVX. For reference to those who haven't used it, VX is a new version of Nostalgia that features real time path tracing, which makes it significantly more demanding than the original Nostalgia. This makes it barely playable on the vast majority of graphics cards, as Ada Lovelace (RTX 4000 series) is basically the only GPU architecture even slightly optimised with real time path tracing; Ampere (RTX 3000 series) and all previous generations will struggle. Radeon cards will also struggle, as not even RDNA3 (RX 7000 series) has meaningful path tracing optimisation yet. It's a very new technology.
Dude, your vids are top notch. There is literally nothing you can do to make them better (aside of adding dancing sloots to the corners of the screen 👌 ). Great comparisons, mod info clearly provided, and no extra fat in the vid, straight to the point. Thank you for making these
I love how minecraft can make you feel a certain way just by using shaders. It's just a beautiful game and I'm Glad I'm able to play it.
strongly agreed
Literally! It's like playing the game in a nostalgic but new way - best thing ever!
I know right
Agree
People who can't afford: :')
Rethinking Voxels is so good, in my opinion, it's the most vanilla-friendly shaders. However, my only complaint is that I can't tell when the ocean is in different biomes from the top.
I really don't like how rethinking voxels strips most of the settings you can use in complementary shaders
I prefer complementary reimagined, which is what it is based off. If rethinking voxels had the base settings of reimagined along with the features like colored lights, it would be perfect.
Lags too much for me on my GTX 1070 😭
@@kaiaie4760 rethinking voxels has colored lights, and they're a lot better than most other shaders due to the voxel-based lighting technology.
@@arcticfox037 I mean yea it uses rtx features ofcourse it lags on your gpu lmao.
Rethinking Voxels is just perfect in everything. Feels like Vanilla, looks like Vanilla and isnt blurry
Nah that one's trash
Literally the only impressive thing in that shaderpack is the cave lighting
@@hylianroi can see where you're coming from, although i personally like the RV quite a lot
It is important to remember that it's just an edit of Complementary Reimagined with ray-traced block lights added. And unfortunately this video fails to showcase how the lighting completely breaks when too many light sources are placed near each other.
@@draco6349 yeah, that's one of the main reson i use sildurs, bsl and complemantary
I gotta admit, super duper vanilla looks absolutely stunning
You should see the nether and the end with those shaders. It's absolutely mind-blowing.
There's also SO MANT SETTING for it. You can make it look however you want! It can look like seus ptgi, or complementary, or pretty much any other shader.
I just wish it had colored lighting
+ insane performance, even on this video SDV easily beats other packs in FPS
Looks mid
Heya developer of Super Duper Vanilla here, and YYYYYYYYYOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO it's an absolute honor to have my shader included in your video! Too bad there were no End shots where the shader (currently) truly shines :C
Nevertheless, your videos are the greatest and once again it's an honor to have Super Duper Vanilla included in this video! ❤❤
An unforgivable omission,End in SDV is just insanely beautiful! Also I am glad to see how your shader absolutely surpasses all others in performance, while having the best effects
🎉🎉🎉
awesome work, it was probably my favourite overall on this list
I love your shaders, but I wish that they included an option to use higher quality stars. The regular blocky stars just look out of place to me.
Those lava fields look amazing, though, so glad those shots were included 😃
FastPBR takes the cake for overall visuals, but Rethinking Voxels is also great and I really love that they kept the water texture.
that is the same for complementary reimagined, you can make it vanilla-ish in the settings also :)
I feel like Bliss does underwater really well
I'm really, really glad bliss reached top 10 this year, despite the state it was showcased in!
it is my fault for not making it immediately visible that the bliss version on the curseforge that was showcased was a very old version, and broken on iris (thats why plants were dark).
i reserve curseforge uploads for major big releases, which is why it was so old....
anyways, i have a github with frequently updated versions of bliss, its VERY different now compared to then.
due to this video i decided the github version is stable enough and rushed a bit and uploaded Bliss v2.0 to the curseforge, which is just the latest github version.
Great video! your top 10 shader showcase is pretty large for giving shaders visibility, so im very glad!
Does bliss have block lighting now?
It's really good and i think one thing holding it back for me is block lighting
@@ag_064 like multicolored blocklighting? because it always had minecrafts normal block lighting / torch lightmaps.
I am absolutely loving Bliss, thank you so much for making it.
I have a weird issue (very minor) and will check if the newer versions in your GitHub fix that.
From this vid I thought Bliss looked the best in many ways.
I also liked bliss the best. It's just preffered color correction (very sattle, blue/frosty overall color), but still...
Rethinking Voxels and NostalgiaVX are my 2 favorites from watching these. Rethinking Voxels has a very "Vanilla but better" style to it, and I love the way NostalgiaVX depicts the Nether and underwater
couldn't agree more
Yeah but you have to pay for VX and Im not paying for it
I liked the lava in super duper vanilla, like how when there's a large ocean of lava it has a sort of larger texture on top of the smaller one
Arc's lava is crazy
I think AHS is one of the only TH-camrs who get me genuinely excited when they uploasd
Same with me
same
@@kuzeyrl Same Here
Solas runs incredibly well, and it has some very interesting features that as far as I know, no other shaders have (such as performant colored lighting based on bloom)
How come when I turn off clouds, they don't disappear in Solas. But when I switch to vanilla, they are not there?
@@Shvetsario you have to turn off clouds in solas shader settings not the normal minecraft settings.
@@Shvetsariogo into solas settings and turn them off there, only then will it turn off
the reflection in the water is too bright and Idk how to fix it. i cant look at water without it looking like a flashbang
Why is no one taking about bliss? It looks to have great performance, awesome visuals and the unique biome fog.
yeah it looks really good
Yeah
I used it it has great visuals with real time clouds and shadow feature and biome fog.
But at the same time
At night it's pretty dark.
Yeah it's a pretty cool shaderpack
Although I still prefer Rethinking Voxels. But hey, opinions are opinions
Fr it's really good. For me, the weather invokes the same feelings as it does irl.
what performance?? this guy is using an rtx 4090. my rtx 3060 is hardly getting 100 fps at such shaders
If there were a combination of Bliss with voxel based blocklight, my life would be complete.
You have to try photon shaders, they look absolutely stunning!
Unlike many of the "classic" shaders that haven't been updated in a while Nostalgia (not VX) was recently updated to v5 and it is amazing. Almost as good as NostalgiaVX with far superior performance.
Glad you like it, and yea more people should be aware that Nostalgia Shader and VX are two separate packs with the former being free too :)
@@RRe36 NostalgiaVX is a paid shader? I'm not sure that follows Mojang's EULA.
@@drantigon Whoever told you that is wrong, shaderpacks are the same situation as with resourcepacks, as in no Mojang code or content is involved, thus they simply have no legal authority over it. Don't confuse this with the physics mod situation.
Technically they are even less involved with Minecraft than resourcepacks are, since shaderpacks are made for a third party rendering pipeline thats added ontop of the base game through a mod, so really shaderpacks aren't even built for minecraft, but just that rendering pipeline which could also be implemented in other software as well.
@@RRe36 You're the best and I appreciate the work you do on all your shaders.
@@joeschmoe487 ty
I wish my laptop could run these kinda things but it's the small things in life you gotta appreciate
Rethinking Voxels also has colored block lighting, like the soul lantern is a blue-ish color, frog lights have their specific light color, it’s pretty cool.
Where's the water reflection on blocks when it's raining???
I'm geniunely saddened to see Rethinking Voxels getting mentioned instead of Complementary Reimagined, when most of the comparisons show absolutely zero features of Rethinking Voxels.
same
Yeah I'm especially kinda annoyed that the video fails to showcase RV's famous broken blocklights, gives people the wrong impression.
@@draco6349Broken block lights?
@@arcticfox037 The ray-traced block lighting in Rethinking Voxels breaks when too many light sources are placed close together.
FastPBR looking gorgeous in all examples, deffo the one i'd consider using, soft voxels lite is a close second but FastPBR just looks the best consistantly in all scenarios with elements from the others in there that i liked too, just wish the nether was a touch less red shaded but you can't be in love with everything :P
In terms of practicality, I think Rethinking Voxels takes the cake and would be a shader I would see myself always leaving on. In terms of my favorite looking shaders tho, I think it's a close tie between PBR and Bliss
Rethinking Voxels really stands out from the rest, definitely a great shader!
There's no reflection on the blocks when raining.. So I don't want it, bsl is better
@@cakecatgaming2400 hahaha, it is still in development from what i remember. maybe they will add it!
Honestly, I think the only one I liked throughout the entire video HAS to be Arc. Now I do have a hatred for that lava texture, and if there's nothing I would be able to do to get rid of it, it would easily go to one of the other shaders, but idk. Arc just feels so much more vibrant than all of the other ones. And you can actually see underwater without this fog filter over the top of it all!
Exactly! Thought the same. I really liked the look until i saw that ugly lava.
If you can switch off the lava texture it is the best by far!
Rethinking Voxels just obliterates the comparisons. The coloring and light direction is stunning.
I get over constant 60 fps with every other shader on 20 Render distance and about 45-50 fps with 12 Render distance when using Rethinking Voxels. Not worth it
Nah Bliss is better
But no reflections on the blocks when raining 😂
I love rethinking voxels lighting but complementary reimagined takes the cake for looks and performance.
Omg all the shaders at night are downright amazingly 😮😮
These shaders are amazing! I like how incredible they make Minecraft look.
the video aint even been out longer than it lasts bro 💀
The evolution of Minecraft is really impressive !
@@Kwik-1 bro predicted the vid ☠
You watched this on like 4x speed or something?
And laggier than ever
I think Bliss is by far the best one, except for underwater and in the Nether. Its dawn, night, rain, and caves scenery are beautiful!
It’s the one that looks the most life-like IMO
@@d313m5 Exactly, the rain especially is nice!
*me watching this with a pc that can’t run shaders*
Lol rip
Same
Yep that’s me
Minecraft* 💀💀
@@modsrsamir1331 at the time i wrote the comment i could run minecraft at 15 fps with optifine on lowest settings 💀
PHOTON! PHOTON is the best shaderpack ever made, and I can't believe it's been missed off this list.
You could probably spend an entire video talking about the incredible features of that shaderpack.
does it take a toll on fps?
@@himiss1644 not that much its has nice performance ı recommend the enable water caustics tho :)
ty!
@@himiss1644 All shaders do, but Photon is surprisingly performant considering how high quality it is. Especially the clouds.
kappa has better lighting and equally good clouds
Thanks for these options man. I'm getting Minecraft soon and I haven't played for around 2 years and this helps a lot to choose which shaders to use I will consider using one of these as long as they don't take up much space.
Rethink voxels and mainly Solas, Solas did provide some fairly vanilla but great features. And voxels just had some jarring lighting
For me by far my two favorites in every situation were Super Duper Vanilla and Fast PBR. Thanks for the showcase!
Idk whats up with the Bliss shaders, but it just tickles my brain. The atmosphere is incredible in all of the scenarios, and for me, especially in the rain, it invokes the same feeling as it does in real life. I feel like they did a great job capturing that.
Super Duper Vanilla is my favorite shader ever, so atmospheric and so pretty
4:37 Musk Rose Shaders look like smooth lighting off on steroids
Thanks for linking the map in the description, it looks absolutely stunning. And great video as always. Your vidoes never fail to amaze :)
Rethinking vs FastPBR for main shader (FastPBR overall imo), with soft voxels as a night shader and nostalgiaVX as a nether shader.
I like some of these but as always SEUS, Sildurs, Complementary and BSL remain undefeated and are yet to be dethroned
literally ALL of those were easily dethroned, seus is really old and most other rt packs have surpassed it already, sildurs is ALSO really old and kinda featureless, complimentary is still going strong but has definitely been surpassed, and bsl... long past
Nostalgia VX & Rethinking voxels are so pretty
Ocean Sunrise - FastPBR
Night - Rethinking Voxels
Rain - NostalgiaVX
Cave - Super Duper Vanilla
Underwater - Rethinking Voxels
Nether - Solas Shader
Flying around - Rethinking Voxels
Yeah, overall my choice would be Rethinking Voxels too, too bad the water dont have wave effect so it looks like ice from Ocean Sunrise angle, i love the night time not so pitch black cuz there is moon light when you're outside, The rain was not so bad it just the water drop was hard to see like it was not raining, i love the cave atmosphere like SDV just bring the light pop off for that actual glowing things, I think underwater looks real at this shader, shader usually become a hard option when it come at the nether and the end cuz its usually too dark and hard to navigate, At flying around most of them kinda foggy and i dont really into and this shader good at lighting too, not too bright, not too dark.
Ive been using Solas for a long time. I still like it best out of any of these, but next would be nostalgia. Im just not a fan of the clouds or underwater aspects. Super cool comparison video tho! Thanks!
If you're gonna make a video with amazing shaders, at least say they're mostly only Iris compatible man! I got my hopes up!
it's sad that Nulls shaders got less attention comparing to rethinking voxels, especially talking about Shrimple that is overshadowed by pervious
i love how you made this list unique this year, it really displayed the true beauty of Minecraft as well as complimenting less known shaders, great vid.
arc just feels so oversharpened and unpleasant to me, personally.
rethinking voxels just feels the best to me, both in terms of cinematics and playability. i like being able to see under shade whilst not burning my eyes outdoors. along with having perhaps a slightly lower saturation than the usual default values these shaders provide, so it doesn't have that ickiness i get from oversaturated thumbnails and such.
that's my personal preference but i suspect i'm not alone with this.
something to note on super duper vanilla is it's VERY optimized even with it's visuals, surprisingly so - better than bsl/complimentary
definitely one to consider for my fellow low-ends
This is because the dev actually develps and tests it on an intel integrated gpu
Rethinking Voxels is the best pack I've EVER used. I'd rate it as being even better than SEUS PGTI at a fraction of the performance cost
Why is no one talking about nostalgia ?
because 90% of the pc cant run 😂
Sildur vibrant is my favourite shader
MUSK ROSE ONTOOO NOTHINGG🙊🙊🙊💯💯💯
You should’ve showcased the shaders in The End, cause SuperDuperVanilla really shines there I believe.
NostalgiaVX is the best imo
I love Solas shaders! My complaint with a lot of shaders is that they make things difficult to see. Solas makes everything clear and bright.
Claim your “here within an hour” ticket right here🏆
Fast PBR seems to be my favorite.
I think Rethinking Voxels and FastPBR were the best among these.
It's through this video that I learned the Broville guys updated their map to work again. Very happy.
Out of all the shaders my top 3 favorites are 3rd Super Duper Vanilla, 2nd Rethinking Voxels and 1st FastPBR graphics and visuals wise
I’m torn between nostalgia and rethinking voxels as those are the most vanilla friendly. I love the cave light system and vanilla but reflective water on rethinking voxels, but I love the fluffiness and abundance of clouds in nostalgia. I’m leaning towards rethinking voxels, but when you’re actually underwater, it looks a bit off. But good job on the video, and if I download a shader, I will use this video for reference.
Super duper vanilla and fastPBR are insanely good!!
Man I can’t choose one, they both are good, sometimes fastPBR are better and sometimes super duper vanilla is better.
feels so real that i can almost feel the smoke coming out of my computer
Love your videos man, you may know this but you can use the cinematic camera toggle in the options to make your footage look smoother (for shaders), it's under the keybindings tab, keep up the good work!
3:40 that owl...
You should look up Photon shaders, I think it also came out this year and it has been my new go to. It even has real clouds instead of just a skybox. It's a bit mid in low light, but drop dead GORGEOUS when its bright!
Silas and Rethinking Voxels are my favorite 😊
honestly nostalgia vx and rethinking voxels are good. if u have a high end pc i would try nostalgia vx, but if you are in the mid-low range, i recommend rethinking voxels. theyre both good but others like bliss and super duper vanilla are also some good ones. arc is also another good one i really like the water effects it has with the bubbling in the water and also the waves change their size depending on what weather your in. bliss is really cool because the fog adjusts itself to whatever biome your in and the graphics are really nice.
I know this is a priviliged question, but could you do a Rt shader video in the future? Maybe make some comparision to other shaders to see where the difference is, if there is one in the first place? I don't know much about shaders and haven't used 'em in several years now =)
9:24 the area looks stunning, what's the seed?
I wish you would rank them in order of demand on the system. At least when each are in their default config. I would like to know least 2 or 3 demanding in this group.
its weird how all of these shaders excell in different aspects maybe the creators should do a collab and make one big great shader
Bro is this a shader showcase or one of those "1 hour of relaxing Minecraft music" videos. The Showcase was so soothing
Rethinking voxels is definitely my favorite. Even though I can barely run it
Watching you since 2019❤
Chocapics are incredible too without dropping that much FPS, running them on Extreme version (highest), no settings changed, went from about 350-400 fps to 80 with a gtx 1060
I love Rethinking Voxels and Super Duper Vanilla
Does anyone know if I can change arcs lava? Arc looks amazing but the lava is strange
I can't wait for rethinking voxels to fully flesh themselves out, get all the bugs ironed out
it really needs to be pushed into the lime light, i know there's a LOT of literally just what complimentary reimagined or whatever it's called does
BUT NO SHADER DOES COLORS LIKE THIS ONE THAT I HAVE EVER SEEN LIKE THIS ONE, IT'S SO, FREAKING, GOOD AND I CAN BARRLY RUN THE THING!!!
been using rethingking voxels for months now. It is better in many ways and still very customizable.
Some others in this list are pretty cool, thought.
quite impressive how youtube compression artefacts become so visible!
it would be very cool to be able to "mix" shaders based on the environment.. IMHO rethinking voxels is the best overall, but lacks some lighting effects that could be blended in from one or the other shader based on the environment.
6:46 "Agumon digi evolves into..." vibes on the udnerrwater god rays XDD
Makeup Shader is my favorite because it can look good without ANY fps loss. medium setting takes away like 5 fps. While still looking extremely good.
thanks for these you are the first youtuber I go to for shaders, mods and texture packs I feel like people don't give you enough credit for the showcases you do honestly amazing!
yo thank you so much it was my dream to see thoes thing's for the first time i had tiers thank you
1:44 Man the biome specific fog seems like a great feature
fast pbr, solas, and rethinking voxels are definitely my favorite
Been using BSL since the start of everything, never really wanted to look into others because bsl ran very nicely and looked great
Dam, I can't decide if I choose now rethinking voxels or nostalgia vx
the first time i watched you, you only had 50k subs! but after a year, you reached 1 million subscribers. Congrats! (IM PROBABLY WRONG)
I think I've been spoiled by SEUS because the only one that really impressed me here was Rethinking Voxels.
Great to see a lot of new shaders! Solid comparisons, but I would have liked a normal daytime comparison as well, perhaps of a village.
Impressive how different they all FEEL. Its insane.
For me, itll be rethinking voxel i guess, looks the best in average in my opinion
EDIT: Oh, and look at the FPS counter in the top right! Some shaders are quite heavy on performance.
My two favorites of all of these are with the things I would customize in brackets:
- Rethinking (night, nether dark are a bit too dark for my taste)
- Solas (underwater, nether feel a bit too blurry)
Overall, these two add this "alive" feeling to the footage you showed. I really like them!
pleasepleasePLEEAAASEEEE REVIEW OPAL SHADERS
they are genuinely the most underrated and unique shaders I’ve ever seen
I love bliss now, with distant horizons it looks amazing. It's visuals suit much larger render distances.
Rethinking voxels is one of the few shaders that has different colour lighting making biomes like the deep dark look amazing as it’s bathed in a blue hue, my only complaint is how vanilla the water and sky look when compared to other shaders packs
You can tell that the 4090 goes hard because I can barely get 45 FPS on my RTX 3080 in 1080p while using NostalgiaVX.
For reference to those who haven't used it, VX is a new version of Nostalgia that features real time path tracing, which makes it significantly more demanding than the original Nostalgia. This makes it barely playable on the vast majority of graphics cards, as Ada Lovelace (RTX 4000 series) is basically the only GPU architecture even slightly optimised with real time path tracing; Ampere (RTX 3000 series) and all previous generations will struggle. Radeon cards will also struggle, as not even RDNA3 (RX 7000 series) has meaningful path tracing optimisation yet. It's a very new technology.
7:50 That lava texture reminds me of Iron Lung.
Rethinking Voxels is the most minecrafty out of all of them. Gives minecraft story mode type feeling
thanks for making this video! ive been looking for some shaders and these are perfect! AHS makes my day brighter when he releases his videos
Dude, your vids are top notch. There is literally nothing you can do to make them better (aside of adding dancing sloots to the corners of the screen 👌 ).
Great comparisons, mod info clearly provided, and no extra fat in the vid, straight to the point. Thank you for making these
rethinking voxels is nice
in the continuous shot, everything else was dimmer than RV