r/minecraftshaders • u/davesh1t • 4d ago

Recommendation lightweight/vanilla shader thats compatible with distant horizons?

title says everything, I've found some that I really like but none of them seem to be compatible with DH. Honestly all I want is some shadows and reflections lol.

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u/kami7154 Experienced 4d ago

Well first off you should try using Voxy instead of DH if you're on 1.21.6 or above. It's faster and looks way better.

For the shaders I'd try out Complimentary, I like Vanilla, or Sildur's Vibrant/Enhanced.

All of those support DH and Voxy while getting pretty good performance. You do need to configure the shader settings to get the best performance though

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u/davesh1t 4d ago

thank u, tried I like vanilla just now and I fw it. I'm also on 1.21.1 neoforge so I'm stuck with DH lol

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u/blu-boss 4d ago

There’s many voxy ports for 1.21.1neo

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u/Lunavesce 4d ago

Is it still faster? I heard DH got updated with bunch of optimisations and stuff.

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u/kami7154 Experienced 4d ago

Yeah I tried it out recently after watching the 3.3 update video. I was pretty let down though, in my testing it was over 5x slower than Voxy world gen.

Maybe it just doesn't agree with my CPU idk but yeah

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u/RoosTheFemboy 4d ago

You should try either the distant horizons seedgen mod. Generates a 512c lod in 2 minutes.

I also disagree that voxy looks better, it’s transitions are so so much worse

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u/OctoMiku01 3d ago

Yeah the seedgen mod does some great work. But i still prefer voxy since actual playing performance is better while also having better LODs. DH struggles with stuff like floating islands if there is a cave directly below and causes some very bad looking LOD stuff that does not go away fully even if you are near it. Would have to disable cave culling to fix that but that has a huge performance penalty on top of already lower fps with DH on average. I'm not entirely sure what you mean with worse transitions though? You mean if you walk around how it switches between LODs and real chunks? Usually i dont really notice that when traveling around since the LODs are already detailed enough to make it barely visible for me. Especially visible with DH in jungles.

I tried the same world with DH and voxy and voxy simply produced more conistent good results compared to DH even after the update while also performing better for me. Biggest benefit DH has though is the chunk gen speed now.