Stracciatella Shaders for Minecraft

Review Stracciatella Shaders

Stracciatella Shaders – extra additions to vanilla style

Stracciatella Shaders can be categorized as «light effects» that can only supplement the standard vanilla Minecraft style and add some minor improvements. In general, there are a large number of players who prefer to use exclusively the standard version of the game without any textures or shaders. However, this option can be called an exception since fits perfectly into the atmosphere and optimizes the «shortcomings» of vanilla graphics.

We can also say that Stracciatella Shaders are particularly lightweight and can run on any system, regardless of the configuration of your PC, video card, and processor. The shader provides a stable FPS, does not affect performance, and has a large list of settings for changing the effects of graphics in the game.

The sun, the moon, and the sky

The developers of this shader have added a lot of settings for the sun. For example, you can change the size of the sun (or the moon) by independently choosing the required parameters. The sun remains square but looks more interesting than its vanilla counterpart. In general, there are plenty of different settings for light intensity, atmospheric scattering, the horizon, and the sun’s angle.

By the way, some words about the size of the sun. The shader allows you to choose the size and make the sun look very close to the earth as if you are on a completely different planet. The most valuable thing is to capture such precious moments at sunset or sunrise. Build yourself a house on the seashore or a hill, make spacious rooms with huge windows, and feel free to enjoy every second of these incredible visual effects!

Compared to the standard vanilla version of Minecraft, the colors of Stracciatella Shaders will look brighter. However, you can go to the settings and change the saturation, color, hue, etc. by using a large number of different parameters.

The game has beautiful twilights, when the atmosphere is partially illuminated by the sun, being neither totally dark nor completely lit. If you catch the moment and take a screenshot when the sun sets and the moon appears, you can see a smooth color transition, which looks amazing. When the sun sets, you see reddish-yellow hues. When the moon appears, the environment is colored blue-black. This effect looks rather cool.

At night, the sky is covered with a large number of stars. If you look closer, you will see how they move. But from the astronomical point of view, it is your planet that moves through the universe. There are also many different interesting settings here: you can change the color of the sky, the color of fog or sunsets, and choose the density of stars, their direction, as well as the length and thickness of their traces. As a result, you choose what exactly the sky will be like, how fast the stars move, and how they will look against the general background.

Weather

Weather conditions in Minecraft also change. The main role is played by a few default settings. Raindrops become larger and can fall with a certain slope. The shader has a certain parameter that allows you to change the rain refraction, as well as fine-tune the size, coverage, and opacity of rain puddles, which is extremely important for the Minecraft world and the atmosphere as a whole.

As you remember, the weather often changes, especially if you move from one biome to another. During the game day, it may rain several times and sometimes there is even a serious thunderstorm with lightning. By the way, a few words about the storm. If the weather is bad, there may still be a gradient during twilights, which looks quite interesting.

In general, we can say that the weather changes dynamically and the player decides which effects will be used. Stracciatella Shaders have all the necessary features to set the weather without any problems.

As for sunny days, here everything is standard: the rays penetrate through the leaves and trees, thus creating different types of shadows. The intensity of the glow depends on the degree of the slope and the time of the day (whether it is sunrise or sunset). These factors also determine the density of lighting. However, the atmosphere is visually pleasing at any time of the day. You do not just move around the vanilla world but enter an upgraded environment with numerous highly detailed improvements.

Lighting

One of the main features of most shaders is a lighting system that affects all light sources, from the sun and moon to lamps, redstone torches, and other options. This add-on also introduces a rather comfortable and highly realistic light. We cannot say you will see some kind of «wow» effect, but at least you will have a chance to significantly improve your vanilla environment.

The game has quite soft and pleasant lighting, especially when it comes to different types of lamps, Jack lanterns, fire, lava, and torches. Whatever time of day you install a lantern or any other source of light, it does not blind you, looks quite realistic, as well as does not attract much attention. Each light source has a particular intensity, density, and scattering of rays. Moreover, you can clearly see how the atmosphere on the ground and in the water changes. In water biomes, the light is a bit dimmed, although this is quite enough to explore the underwater world.

If you install light sources during the day, they will also emit a certain level of light. Besides, it will refract and change depending on the time of day. The shader settings provide a particular item, which you can use to enable normal maps, different types of gamma, HDR, and other parameters. This will allow you to customize the shader and have a colorful picture on your monitor screen.

Environment and vegetation

Wiggle . Like many other add-ons, this one uses a wiggle system for grass, leaves, and different types of flowers. The physics also affects the underwater space where the flow of water slightly moves the algae. However, the standard wiggle settings do not look quite realistic. For example, leaves on trees simply stretch and contract like a sponge and do not fully depend on the direction of the wind. If you move to the winter biome, you will see the leaves swaying while the snow lies on it without any movement. Not very realistic, huh?

«Living plants» . Flowers and grass also sway in the wind of any intensity, whether it is a regular sunny day or a hurricane. The flowers swaying in different directions along with the grass fluttering in the wind make Minecraft sparkle with new colors and effects. You can even play without any textures using the standard options. All these things create a unique atmosphere, bring realism to the game, and improve visual effects that are lacking in the vanilla version of the game.

Fog . Another nice feature of this shader is the fog control. The settings have certain configurations that allow you to fine-tune the fog, for example, its color, density, and transparency. Together with the settings for rain and sun, you get a huge set of options that allow you to seriously influence the weather effects. Therefore, it becomes much more pleasant to take colorful screenshots or shoot videos for YouTube.

To sum up, Stracciatella Shaders match perfectly with the vanilla version of Minecraft and offer a wide range of options and different effects. There is no realistic water or numerous settings for shadows, although they are also partly present. But the main feature of this add-on is to slightly complement the game world, focusing on the most significant areas: weather conditions, for example, fog, rain, rain puddles, the size of the sun and moon, the starry sky and its intensity, detailed settings for sunsets and sunrises, as well as lighting.

As a result, Stracciatella Shaders focus on some basic things without overloading the game with unnecessary effects and sometimes confusing settings that most players do not need. Another feature of this add-on is high FPS on most computers. Since the shader is not particularly demanding on your PC, you can even use standard parameters to get a full set of improvements and change the graphics for the better.

We highly recommend this vanilla pack for those who do not have a powerful computer but want to get a «vibey» atmosphere with different effects. It is one of the few shaders that combines quality, the minimum number of basic settings for only the most important effects, as well as high FPS and low system load.

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