Vibrant Visuals

Vibrant Visuals is a graphics mode that aims to improve the visual looks of Minecraft[6] by adding directional lighting, physically based textures, pixel-aligned shadows, atmospheric sky, environmental effects, and various other visual features based on photorealism. It is built with the RenderDragon engine[7] around a physically based rendering pipeline used for deferred lighting.[8][9] It runs locally on the player's device, and can be enabled in the player's settings rather than world specific settings.[10]

Most configurations and textures can be customized using resource packs, and various tagged Marketplace add-ons make use of custom Vibrant Visuals packs.[11]

Vibrant Visuals affects only the graphical appearance of Minecraft; it does not affect gameplay. However, enabling Vibrant Visuals on lower-end devices (especially with high render distance and higher graphics settings) can decrease game performance significantly, which can affect the game experience.