Cinematic: Shader

Most shader packs try to make Minecraft prettier. This one tries to make it look like a movie.

Cinematic: Shader is part of the Cinematic family. It's built around the things you notice first in a film shot: fog, rain, reflections, and light breaking through the trees. It's tuned for slow camera moves and wide shots, not for counting how many blocks away a creeper is.

🌫️ Atmosphere

• Height fog: thicker in valleys and thinner on hills. It thickens in rain, and a low mist creeps over the ground at dawn, dusk and night.
• Light shafts: sunbeams cut through leaves, windows and fog. When the sun hides behind a tree, a hill or a cloud, rays spill out around it, even far away.
• Cave fog: underground, distance fades into dim gray haze instead of pure black. You know something's down there; you just can't quite see it.
• Soft, moving clouds: lit by the sun. They cast shadows that drift across the land.

🌧️ Rain

• Wet ground: rain slowly darkens and soaks everything under the open sky.
• Puddles: they form on open ground, reflect the trees and buildings around them, and dry up when the rain stops.
• Ripples: raindrops leave rings on puddles, rivers and lakes.
• Slanted rain: the rain falls at an angle in the wind and catches the light.
• Raindrops on the lens: drops land on the camera and slide down during cutscenes.

💧 Water, ice and glass

• Clear water: shallow water is clear turquoise and deep water fades to dark.
• Refraction: the bottom bends under the waves.
• Reflections: water mirrors the hills, trees and buildings around it. Off-screen parts fall back to the sky and clouds.
• Caustics: dancing light patterns on the bottom of sunlit water.
• Ice and glass: ice is glossy and reflective; windows reflect softly.

☀️ Light

• Shadows: soft shadows, plus colored light through stained glass and water.
• Time of day: warm sunrises, white noon light, and cool blue moonlight.
• Torches: gently flickering warm torchlight, and held torches light up your surroundings.
• The sun: a glowing sun with an anamorphic lens streak and soft lens ghosts when you look into it.