Sildur's Basic Shaders for Minecraft

Review Sildur's Basic Shaders

Sildur's Basic Shaders – Baseline shader for Minecraft

Sildur’s shaders offer a wide set of features and features for users of Minecraft, and the developers of these addons specifically develop several versions of them so that each gamer can choose the optimal pack for him or her. You can be sure that each shader creates a unique load on the computer, which depends on the number of activated options, effects and initial settings of your computer. Earlier, we talked about Sildur’s Vibrant Shaders and Sildur’s Enhanced Default. We recommend you look at the full article of each of them so you can compare them among each other.

If your computer is low-performance, Sildur’s Basic Shaders is perfect because only the most important effects and features are included in it. However, the creators tried to reduce the load on any computer and set FPS at the proper level. Despite the small number of features and parameters, this shader pack can perfectly connect with Thaumcraft 4 and Aether 2. Moreover, these modifications are very popular among gamers and are among the different sets of Minecraft.

Sildur's Basic Shaders review

Despite the basic version of mod, the functions of this shader are quite extensive, and it contains effects so that vanilla Minecraft can transform and get a beautiful visual. There is good ability to adjust the blur, cross-processing, depth of field, curvature of the realm, angle of tilt for the sun and moon and many other effects. But we would like to tell you all of this in their order…

The outside world in Minecraft

After you run Minecraft, you will be in a slightly altered realm where the whole environment has changed in appearance. Even with the basic version of this shader, you will clearly see it. Around, all the vegetation moves from gusts of wind, and whatever the weather is in the game, the leaves will always move there. Moreover, in the settings, you will be able to adjust the level of its intensity. We advise you not to overdo it so that the unrealistic view does not appear in your game…

The grass on the ground is moving, and quite plausible. The ripple will not only be in one direction, but in different directions too, and this factor depends on wind gusts and its direction. Despite the fact that you can’t see the wind visually, you will feel it perfectly in the environment. Moreover, developers of such shaders help us feel it when they add similar effects to Minecraft.

Flowers have a slightly different mechanics. So, if you go to any flower on a field or in a forest, you will immediately see that it barely moves, but its intensity is many times less than that of grass or leaves. The mechanics of motion are qualitatively different, and the type of flower in your visual examination does not affect how it will be subject to ripple because of this. Overall, all this atmosphere adds more «realism» and interest to the game.

Preset settings

In Sildur’s Basic Shaders pack settings, there are five preset graphics options that have automatic settings. All you have to do is select a particular parameter in «Settings» window, such as Fancy, Fast, Fast_DoF and a few more options. This is enough to allow the user to choose a certain option and get a bright, balanced picture in the game even if he or she is not well versed in shader configuration.

By default, the shader selects settings that match the configuration of your PC. If you do not like this option or you want to see what Sildur’s Basic Shaders is capable of, then you should visit Settings and choose other options.

Blur and depth of field

In Settings, there is one special section called the Depth of field, in which you can enable depth of field in the game. There are no any unique parameters for it, as in many shaders, but this is enough so that you can add the effect of focusing the eye and blurring at a certain distance. Such effects allow you to concentrate on specific objects or make a colorful screenshot.

There is a remote blur also, through which the user literally imitates the focus of the eye on a particular object. We cannot say exactly how realistic it is in this shader. However, this set of effects is enough for any gamer to feel changes in the issue of visual graphics.

You can also enable blackout in Minecraft if you click on Celshading for this. This is not a whole section, as many gamers are used to in other shaders, but just a separate item that functions after one click.

Wavering objects

We already told at the beginning of the review that in this shader, any user can see how different types of grass, foliage on trees and many other objects are shaking smoothly. All this is configured through the Waving Objects section, where the user can choose what will affect the mechanics and what will not.

For example, if you do not want the flowers to flutter in the wind, you should simply disable the Waving Vines setting. The same applies to lava, high grass, water and many other objects there. We would like to thank the developer, because he provided such extensive functionality in the base version. Here, you can configure both animation speed and amplitude.

Anti-aliasing function

A few options are also available for smoothing in the game, which can be enabled with a single keystroke. In general, TAA technology allows users to convert a picture and reject its «sharply version». By default, each pixel is colored into a specific color in the game, and this occurs either fully or partially. As a result, it looks sharply, and this gradient in each model or object is very noticeable. Thanks to anti-aliasing technology, you will be able to make these transitions less sharply, and this is especially true for Minecraft, in which the graphics itself consists of pixels and dice.

In the settings of the Antialiasing section, the user can quickly turn on the smoothing as well as select quality such as Fancy or Fast. There are too few parameters, but you will have enough of them for you to improve the quality of graphics and get more fun from your game.

Additional options

With one key you can activate the «Fog» setting by adding more visual effects to the game. It is not as realistic as in other global shaders, but it is pretty noticeable in individual biomes it will be noticeable. There are some particular options for adjusting the depth buffer and the relief map and SSAO (that is the activation of custom environment occlusion).

If you are familiar with English, you will have no difficulty with the settings of the shader Sildur’s Basic Shaders, although you already know half of them thanks to this little review. We want to point out that the developer has put together only the most essential settings in this pack, which is not too much of a computer load, which is especially relevant for users of low-performance computers. However, we advise you to remember that the number of installed mods also has a strong impact on FPS, as their number depends directly on your computer’s performance.