Vibrant Visuals is a visual graphics upgrade that will transform the way players experience Minecraft. Initially releasing for Minecraft: Bedrock Edition, it is our developer’s vision for what Minecraft looks like with improved visual elements such as directional lighting, volumetric fog, and more.

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Optimizations and possibly better effects in Vibrant Visuals

Vibrant Visuals is great, but not when there are quirky shadows especially when it was set to low setting and other problems. Here are my recommendations for this:

  • Add shadow distance scaling separate from the draw distance. Some players are happy with low shadow distance especially on low-end hardware. Contact shadows are a possible alternative for distant objects.
  • Use cascaded shadow mapping instead of projecting the entire Minecraft world on a single map, reducing the need of high-resolution shadows.
  • Add a cube map to reflections using the same quality scale as the reflection setting. (1) Low setting means low-resolution cube map and no screen space reflections (SSR), (2) medium is like low but with low-quality SSR instead of none, (3) high setting has medium-resolution cube map with high-quality SSR, and (4) ultra setting means high-resolution and high-quality SSR and cube map.
  • Add refractions to all translucent and transparent material like glass and water only if the Reflection setting is set to medium or higher.
  • The game should run on Vulkan instead of OpenGL ES for both Android and iOS devices for faster performance.
  • And lastly, add an option to enable soft shadows in the settings menu. Certain resource packs favor it over pixelated shadows even when unspecified.
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    The team would have to do a good job of making shadow cutoffs not look rubbish but I agree that making the game run better on higher render distances is a MUST, especially since Mojang want this to become the default, but we've gone from a maximum of 96 chunks (on my PC at least) to a maximum of 24 chucks WITH HALF the framerate. Mojang, PLEASE reduce quality of lighting in further away chunks.