Glimmer

Glimmer Shaderpack

Glimmer is a specialized shaderpack for Minecraft, engineered to balance simplicity with high performance while delivering a physically realistic and naturally aesthetic visual experience.

Key Features

• Flexible Presets: Includes a range of presets such as "Potato," "Toaster," "Integrated Graphics," and "Dedicated Graphics," ensuring reliable performance on hardware ranging from low-end office devices to high-end enthusiast rigs.
• Colored Lighting: Supports vibrant, colored block lighting effects.
• Mod Compatibility: Features native support for Distant Horizons, Voxy, and the Colorwheel mod.
• Infinite Ocean: Implements an "Infinite Ocean" feature that extends water rendering beyond the traditional view distance, creating an endless horizon.
• Standard Compliance: Fully adheres to the LabPBR 1.3 specification.
• Advanced Rendering: Incorporates shadows via shadow maps or lightmap approximation, screen space reflections (SSR), refractions, and procedural 2D clouds.
• Optimization: Implements temporal filtering to minimize visual noise at low sample counts, alongside high-quality Bloom effects.

Compatibility & Requirements

• Hardware: Requires OpenGL 4.3 or higher. Most modern integrated or dedicated GPUs are compatible. Please note that macOS and Raspberry Pi are not supported.
• Software: Compatible with Iris 1.6 and newer versions. Note that OptiFine is not supported.