Hey! This shader is still in development, so there might be bugs and weird stuff. If something breaks - don't panic, that's normal for beta :)
Basically, I'm making a shader that turns Minecraft into an old-school pixel game from the 90s. You know, like on old consoles - everything square and with huge pixels? Something like that.
For now only pixelation works, I'll add the rest later
- You can adjust how much to "pixelate" (from 1 to 100)
- I set 32 by default - looks pretty good
- Works simply: takes a bunch of pixels, mixes them into one big one making an 8-bit game analog
- Cuts the palette down to 16 shades per color (like in old games)
- Creates those "steps" between colors
- Just like on ancient computers
- Slightly changes brightness so it's not too dark
- Makes colors 20% brighter
- Generally tries to make it look good
- Adds old CRT TV static noise effect
- Animated grain that moves over time
- Can be turned on/off in shader settings
- Makes it feel like playing on an old television
PIXELATION- how much to pixelate (1-100)- 1 = almost no pixelation (very fine)
- 100 = strong pixelation (big squares)
NOISE- TV static effect (0/1)- 0 = no noise
- 1 = old TV static noise
- Takes the picture and "rounds" pixels into blocks
- Cuts the number of colors to 16 per channel
- Adjusts brightness and saturation so it doesn't look ugly
- Need Iris (won't work without it)
- Minecraft 1.16+ (haven't tested on older versions, might not work), recommend playing on 1.20.1
- Doesn't lag even on weak computers
- OpenGL 2.1 is enough (that's a very old standard)
- Download and install Iris if you don't have it yet
- Drop the
BitNixeletfolder into theshaderpacksfolder - In Iris settings select this shader
- Adjust the pixelation setting as you like
- Sometimes artifacts appear if you pixelate too much
- Some blocks might look weird
- Interface gets blurry with strong pixelation (don't know how to fix this yet)
- Fixed wrong pixelation math that caused weird scaling
- Fixed edge artifacts by preventing texture sampling outside bounds
- Fixed pixel centering for cleaner pixelation blocks
- Fixed potential crashes from division by zero in color calculations
- Fixed color overflow issues with proper clamping
- Fixed inverted pixelation logic (now higher values = more pixelation)
- Fixed NOISE setting not working properly with true/false values
- Optimized luminance calculations for better performance
Made for those who miss pixel games from childhood