Creator: VeteranDev
How to download
An aesthetic shader pack for Minecraft PE. This Shader focuses on improving the existing vanilla shader to look more aesthetic and realistic without ruining the existing gameplay or sacrificing much performance.
Only for Android and iOS MCPE (uses OpenGL ES)
MCBE Win10/Xbox Edition not supported (uses Renderdragon engine)
For MCPE 1.17.11. Special port for 1.14 also available.
This shader might have bugs! Beware
Features and Changes:
Skip ahead if you're too lazy to read!
Lighting: Features a customisable natural soft lighting with many subtle details.
Clouds: The clouds are soft and adapt with rain. Some parameters can be customised from settings file.
Sky: A natural looking bright sky that gives the shader an aesthetic feel.
Water: A calm and relaxing water that's truly light-weight yet looks beautiful. It's colors adapt with biomes and can also be customised.
Underwater: Has a more bluish foggy view, with soft caustics.
Foliage wave: A subtle natural wave animation that applies to grass, leaves, vines and crops. You could also enable more plants like flowers from settings.
Lantern swing: Probably something you don't find in most shaders, a rigid swinging lantern.
Depth: A smooth foggy layer that blends across the horizon, with an added misty layer that gives more depth to your world. You can also tweak the mist as you want.
Rain weather: Something many users like about this shader, a very natural rain weather. The clouds become thicker, the foliage and lantern starts to wave harder, the ground begins to get wet and a cold wind blows onto you.
Entities: Entities have a soft ambient around them and also has other small details like wet reflection.
Color correction: Uses a very common tone mapping method, yet it still gives Newb Shader a distinct color tone. Not suiting your taste? You can tweak it's brightness, contrast, saturation, tint and even try other tone mappings from settings file!
Sun/Moon: A 3D looking vanilla moon? Not something you'd expect in most shaders, but you get it here. With a smooth shading, it has all the moon phases. The sun also looks stunningly smooth yet it preserves the vanilla vibe. It can even be rotated!
More?: Of course the changes don't stop here, there are more subtle details and many customisation options for you. Try to find it out!
Screenshots:
- Screenshots are from an older version - Newb Shader 1.1.6
Recommended settings:
- Beautiful sky - on
- Smooth shading - on
- Brightness - 100%
Customisation:
- To access the shader's settings files you should use "External Storage" in MCPE settings.
Warning : Making wrong changes in settings files will cause shader to fail!
- Load a world in MCPE.
- After the world has loaded, go to home screen and open a file explorer.
- Then navigate to:
/games/com.mojang/resource_packs/NewbShader/shaders/ - Options to customize can be found in:
.../shaders/glsl/settings/main_settings.h
.../shaders/glsl/settings/terrain_settings.h
.../shaders/glsl/settings/misc_settings.h
.../shaders/glsl/utilities/color.glsl - Open it using a preferable text editor and make your changes. (Backup recommended)
- Save the file and open MCPE to see changes
- See readme.txt for more info
- Use a file manager/text editor like NMM File Manager/Text Edit (Android)
Drawbacks:
- Not even slightly realistic I think
- A bit too bright by default
- Rain transition is a bit long
- Night vision not supported
- Slabs have weird shading
Compatibility:
- Device used for development and testing - Redmi 8A (2GB edition)
- Tested on MCPE 1.17.10, 1.17.11
- Devices with Mali or PowerVR GPU might have some issues.
- Add-ons which add new blocks/models might interfere some features of this shader.
- No huge performance drop as most features are optimised and implemented in the vertex shader, but there could be some lagspikes on some devices.
Bug report:
- Bugs can be reported in the comment section or sent to my Discord account/server. (Discord preferred)
Some device specific/unidentified bugs (If you experience any of these, dm me at discord):
- Static wave animation (Disable real world time in settings to fix this partially)
- Invisible terrain (hard to fix)
- No water shading/green water
If everything becomes invisible, try installing the shader manually using the zip file.
More updates?
- Newb shader will have slower updates from now. However updates are not guaranteed to happen as there is a possibility of getting discontinued. Join the discord server to keep in touch.
Discord Server:
- Newb Shader has a discord server now! Join the server for feedback, bug reports, shader archive and latest releases. Use the invite link provided below!
- https://discord.gg/3CmA9w8Qbu
Copyright:
- MIT License - check LICENSE in shader's root directory.
- Contact author at Discord: VeteranDev#2969
- The codes are commented for devs interested in checking the codes.
Mentions: (Discord)
- Bug fix/suggestions/ideas
- Bravo6, HendricK sHaDoW, TatsuyaHikki, ggVictor, GroundBeefmc - YamaRin Shaders server owner and members were very helpful. Here's a link to one of the shaders of the owner.
*Hey, Did you honestly read all those?...well....Thank you!...If you have a suggestion on how I could improve the writings, or if you found a mistake, please let me know :)
Installation
Manual installation: (Only works with external storage enabled)
- Rename the downloaded .mcpack to .zip
- Go to /games/com.mojang/resource_packs/
- Create a new folder named NewbShader
- Extract the contents of the zip file to this new folder.
What file should I download?
- NewbShader119.mcpack is the standard version.
- NewbShaderLite119.mcpack is a lighter version with less changes.
- Newb Shader (No ads link)