Hey folks, been a while since I typed or shared art. The unfortunate truth is between some medical stuff and crunching at work, I have not had as much time as I would have wanted. That being said, it wont last forever, sand I wont be stopping at all, just slowing down.
I did want to share some fun stuff I have been playing with. Below are some screenshots from my modded copy of minecraft featuring some fun GLSL shaders. Its amazing what is added with some shadows.
Being a long time minecraft player, I was impressed with how much this added back to my experience (though some of that wonder could be that I switched to playing Hexxit, a more pve based modpack built on top of the technic launcher).
There are a decent number of shader packs out there ranging from features and performance. Here are some of the features I have seen:
Bloom
HDR Tone mapping
Dynamic sun/moon shadows
Toon shaders
Custom lighting models
Adjusting of time of day lighting
Screen space water reflections
vertex shaders for ripples in the wayer
SSAO
AA and AF
Basic DoF
Sun lens flares
God Rays
Motion blur
Overall, I would say the water reflections, shadows, and some of the tonemapping truly add quite a bit to the experience. The reflections and the shadows ground the world a bit more physically (while the DoF can add even more it gets a bit nautious at times), while some of the color adjustments really help with some crazy mood adjusts. Check out these screen differences between the different shader packs:
My favorite has got to be the bottom left. Tuning down the influence of the lights was a great way to increase the mood, and the saturation of the warms and cools really adds welcoming feel to any light source in a dark area. Note taken for later:
Anyway, just some thoughts. I really need to pull some of these together into my own custom pack.
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