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Sonic Ether's Unbelievable Shaders [compatible with Minecraft 1.12.2 via OptiFine]

Please read this entire post before attempting an install or posting about a bug.

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If you would like to access beta and experimental versions of SEUS Renewed and support the development of SEUS, check out my Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/sonicether

SEUS Renewed screenshots!

SEUS Renewed is an on-going project! Feel free to report any issues you encounter.

Setup (PLEASE READ)

OptiFine has taken over shader support for Minecraft. Go download and install OptiFine first! ALWAYS USE THE LATEST VERSION

You need to install this mod to use my shaderpack!

Download OptiFine

Once you've got OptiFine installed, to use a shaderpack, follow these instructions.

Sonic Ether's Unbelievable Shaders


Downloads

LATEST:

SEUS Renewed 1.0.0 (DOWNLOAD)

SEUS Renewed is a re-imagining of SEUS and is an ongoing project. Check the links at the very top of this post to follow its development!

Make sure to always use the latest version of OptiFine!

-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!

OLDER VERSIONS

LEGACY VERSIONS:

Tweaks

Once the mod is properly installed, there are a few things you can do to ensure maximum performance.

-Run the game in a smaller resolution in full-screen
-Lower your render distance
-When OptiFine is installed, try toggling "Options > Video Settings > Performance > Smooth FPS:". "ON" gives more responsive input and more steady fps, but likely lower maximum FPS.



Reporting an Issue

If this mod is giving you unusual results, please make sure that you installed everything correctly first.
If you are using this mod on a Mac, I'm sorry to say that I am powerless to provide Mac support. I apologize.


I can't help you if you don't provide these details:
-Describe your issue thoroughly. Provide a screenshot or video if you can.
-Describe your system specs. If you forget this step, I cannot help in any way.
-Include the output log along with your issue report.
-Describe the shaderpack, OptiFine mod version, and Minecraft version that you are running when encountering this issue.

I just tried it out. It is amazing! The finest work of a shader mod i have ever seen. It gives quite beautiful shadows and realism to minecraft especially on server which have huge buildings etc. I recommend this to anyone looking for a realism mod =D.

COOL!! Time to down-grade...

Can i have a hand i get this ugly error while i play minecraft i installed it correctly.

Halp D:!

Quote from pie90087

Can i have a hand i get this ugly error while i play minecraft i installed it correctly.

Halp D:!

Oh wow... Is there any way you can take multiple screenshots while walking forward or upload a video somewhere of what's going on? Kind of hard to pinpoint what might be causing that from just a few screens. Are there any correct shadows? Or are they all messed up? Are you running Windows?

Quote from sonicether

Oh wow... Is there any way you can take multiple screenshots while walking forward or upload a video somewhere of what's going on? Kind of hard to pinpoint what might be causing that from just a few screens. Are there any correct shadows? Or are they all messed up? Are you running Windows?

sorry bout that here's a video:


There are correct shadows just lines thought the landscape that follow my char im also running on windows. oh by the way Amassing work on this shadier it looks great, just.. without lines, of course.

@pie90087: Try putting this file into your minecraft.jar/Shaders folder and overwrite the existing one in there and see if you get different results: Alternate Shadows

@DarkVarano Indeed, the shadows are quite buggy. And yes, it's not my fault but I could hardly put blame on daxnitro, think about what he has created! I don't mind the bugginess for now, and he said he'll work extra hard to fix the shadows for the next update. I'm looking forward to that very much!

@Grog ... ... That ... well my jaw dropped when I saw your screenshots. It looks incredible!! I'll start working on a version that supports bump mapping asap :smile.gif:

This + Water Shader mod = Epic Minecraft.

OH WOW
at first i thought this was fake because it was too awesome
now i know its real and my mind nearly exploded :biggrin.gif:
your shaders are really unbelievable sonicether

Amazing, will this lagg me a lot though?

Quote from sonicether

@pie90087: Try putting this file into your minecraft.jar/Shaders folder and overwrite the existing one in there and see if you get different results: Alternate Shadows

Welp heres another video:

Its gotten better but sadly the lines are still there. it might be a problem with my computer. DARNET NOTCH WHY DID YOU HAVE TO CODE MC IN JAVA, FIX IT JEB!

looking good

water shader mod is incompatible with the glsl shader mod. hopefully the mod this is bassed on is updated to have water shaders.

Quote from pie90087

Welp heres another video:

Its gotten better but sadly the lines are still there. it might be a problem with my computer. DARNET NOTCH WHY DID YOU HAVE TO CODE MC IN JAVA, FIX IT JEB!

Try going into your video options and disabling sky and clouds. It looks like that second shader I gave you was a slight improvement. Hopefully we can find a fix for this soon!



@Peri_Rawesome Wow, I'm actually surprised that you can run minecraft on that intel gpu! I suppose that's your problem right there.. You can try decreasing your render distance and seeing if that helps. Also, try disabling SSAO (there's instructions on how to do that in the Tweaks section of the first post).

Meanwhile, daxnitro is working hard on an update for all of us! New water shaders are probably on the way so the incompatibility won't be an issue for too long. I'm also going to try talking to him about an idea that I have for an hdr shader.

Those screenshots you guys have been posting look unbelievable! Keep them coming! Also, spread the word about this mod to any of your buddies who play Minecraft!

I installed with clean jar and i can go into minecraft but when i load my world and actually go into it it crashes with no error log in modloader. I have all the requirements

imagine this with a realistic texturepack
O_O

can someone please take a screenie like that

Quote from rokudaim3

I installed with clean jar and i can go into minecraft but when i load my world and actually go into it it crashes with no error log in modloader. I have all the requirements

Hmm, you have modloader installed? That may be an issue. Also, are you able to run the normal GLSL Shaders mod linked in the first post?

Quote from TerraFreeze

imagine this with a realistic texturepack
O_O

can someone please take a screenie like that

I actaully prefer the look of default Minecraft with these shaders, but here's some screenies I took with LB Photo Realism :smile.gif:

This is so awesome, dude. Nice work. Keep it up!