
Clean, high performance shaders for modern hardware
54 of the 59 points that apply = 92 out of 100.
RenderPearl is a lightweight Iris shader pack designed to add polished lighting and visual effects while maintaining strong performance on modern hardware. It renders smooth, colored real-time shadows and volumetric light, alongside colored block lighting and physically based reflections that combine a light list with vanilla lighting and average texture colors. A ray-traced hand light is handled separately for each hand, with screen-space ray-traced shadows and options to control the effect. Its post-processing options include FidelityFX Contrast Adaptive Sharpening, SMAA, automatic exposure, and multiple tone-mapping operators. Players can customize water opacity and waves, and use built-in utilities such as light-level visualization and a compass overlay. The shader supports LabPBR 1.3 material data, including resource-pack smoothness and normals, with several other material properties generated procedurally; its compatibility notes say this approach is intended to work with most resource packs and mods.
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Changes how the game looks: 59 shader programs, the dimensions are not stated in the pack.
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No harmful code found
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Sends nothing
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No sign that AI was used to make it
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These projects do not work together with RenderPearl: their authors or RenderPearl's author say so. If you install both, the game can crash or some features can stop working. Some of them do the same job as RenderPearl, so you only need one.
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More modpacks put it in their new versions than a year ago: 31 a month now, 16 a year agoThe average of the last 6 months, compared with the same 6 months a year before. We say it only when the change is large..
379 modpacks include RenderPearl in at least one of their versions. Here are the 30 most downloaded.
Mods that modpacks often add together with RenderPearl. Share: how many of the modpacks with RenderPearl also have that mod.
The newest file for each Minecraft version and loader. The files for recent versions come first. Recent versions: those released in the last 2 years, plus 1.20.1 and 1.21.1, among the most played in modpacks.
In the last 2 years, 7 releases needed a quick fix: a new release within 3 days to fix a problem. This lowers the grade by 3 points.