Lovely Graphics Mods
Channel: Eric Haines
Date: 2012-03-24

I tried out Sonic Ether's Unbelievable Shaders mod, which in turn is built on top of OptiFine Smooth. Amazing. It's pretty easy to modify the minecraft.jar to add these in, a few minutes work - just follow the instructions for each. Find it here: http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/940974-123sonic-ethers-unbelievable-shaders-glsl-shaders-dynamic-shadows-more/

I used the Coterie Craft texture pack mostly because the glass is generally better than the default texture pack (though the diagonal streaks don't thrill me). Find it here: http://www.planetminecraft.com/texture_pack/16x-beta-17_01-coterie-craft-v16-regular-upd-6302011/

I've heard that the HerrSommer texture pack looks good with Sonic. That was a bit more messing around than I wanted to do, but you can find it here: http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/319475-12464xherrsommer-v3herrsommer-rustic-v3/

My GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480

Warning: I'd recommend against riding minecarts very far while using this mod. The load on the computer was so great that Minecraft couldn't load chunks fast enough ahead of me, causing a lock up.

I get about 45-75 FPS, usually around 55. Normally I get 120+ FPS.

Filmed in Vokselia (http://vokselia.com).