I Made Minecraft RTX Actually Realistic in Blender

In this video I’ll show you guys how I made Minecraft RTX more realistic using 3D software!
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Chapters
00:00 Intro
00:24 Day 1
01:50 Day 2
02:31 Day 3
03:17 Day 4
03:48 Day 5
05:06 Outro

[@zaidlacksalastname4905]

"if someone who works on Minecraft sees this, make these changes" Forget frames per second, we'll be counting with minutes per frame

[@darkshadow6758]

💀💀💀💀

[@killkiss_son]

Days per frame 😂

[@TechySkills]

yes, forget frames per second, AKA fps, and well count in FLAMES PER SECOND, FLS

[@Systomd]

worth it! 😁

[@andreykhazhevskiy3230]

Probably 20-30 seconds per frame at the current top tier cards and AI processing. Most likely this could be achieved in 3-5 years. Which sounds crazy, but most likely.

[@maxis9991]

The nether portal animation looks amazing!

[@stanleybochenek1862]

Fire

[@stanleybochenek1862]

Like literally

[@Haybro06]

@@stanleybochenek1862 like the 4090 you’d need to run it

[@mehdi-3763]

@@chrisklaffi9425 Chill brother

[@JeffRey-hs5yy]

Leave him alone he likes shiny things. So do i

[@Robstrap]

0:15 Why are you comparing real time in game ray tracing, to pre rendered ray tracing acting like if you can do it in a render, they should be able to do it realtime just as easy. Pre rendered RTX and realtime RTX are completely different beasts..... you took 22 hours to render this very short video, with like 40 seconds of footage (on a 3090). Which if my math is correct, a 40 second 60fps video rendered in 22 hours, is roughly 33 seconds per frame of render time. Compare that to what RTX Minecraft has to render, which is a minimum of 60 frames in 1 second (my 3080 runs it closer to 100 frames a second). Its not even on the same planet dude. You're saying because you can render better looking RTX graphics, at a rate of 33 seconds per frame, compared to over 60 frames per second. So in the time you render 1 frame, Minecraft RTX would have rendered 1980 frames. The method you are using, is literally 1980x slower (probably closer to 2500-3000x slower, considering you are using a 3090 and a 3090 would probably get over 150 fps on minecraft RTX) than minecraft RTX. You cannot imply "If I can do this, you should be able to make Minecraft RTX look as good as this".

[@Dracocetus]

Yeah exactly! Great comment 👌 I wished more people realised that. I saw several compare it to real texture packs and shaders when there's nothing to compare. Making an animation look good in blender is actually way easier than what people think (I have made a realistic looking metal pendant in blender as a first time thing and it took me 5 hours ish), but making something look good in real time is way more difficult (like you said). In Blender you can basically use as many details as you like as long as you let it render for the time it needs to render. He honestly made me quite mad with that comment. It's literally a scam video

[@Robstrap]

@@Dracocetus yeah, the way he said if was so cocky and insulting to the Minecraft rtx team when what he did isn't even minutely close to what they have done

[@Dracocetus]

@@Robstrap I know! So frustrating 😵

[@KukaBuka]

I just want to say thank you for putting the full detailed animation right after the before/after. When I was watching, I really hoped you posted the full uncut animation so I’m glad it’s on the same video. Great work!

[@FoxynNoah]

I would love to wait 22 hours for chunks to render! Great job

[@mkks4559]

I’d like to wait overnight for my Minecraft worlds to load.

[@stanleybochenek1862]

My pc would explode

[@areshaistg]

22 hours per frame is 💯💯

[@abdaimegaming2679]

😂😂😂 exactly

[@jwlsiee]

"why doesnt mojang do this?? it only took me 5 days" 💀💀

[@rainonedavid3564]

0:14 "I did it in 5 days" this dude will be shocked when he realizes real time RTGI implementation is far more complex than redoing textures in Blender.

[@Dracocetus]

I was expecting more comments like this, but I guess not 🙃

[@jayd4332]

yeah I think the animations is cool but that line was unnecessary

[@sauceseji]

very conceited in that line tbh.

[@NN-sp9tu]

Yeah that didn't really make sense

[@jargis1]

He's literally one guy with a week of time. Mojang is a billion dollar name with full time employees and rtx is already years old. Obviously there's a large difference.

[@Magictastical]

Fun fact, the original paintings shouldn'tve needed upscaling, as the originals are available from original paintings by Kristoffer Zetterstrand. The minecraft wiki has links to the originals in their non-pixelized forms

[@flopi1179]

its crazy to me how close we can get to these visuals with real time in game shaders and resource packs that run at over 60 frames per second instead of 1 frame per 22 hours still incredible work

[@RoboThePanda]

while i agree that MC RTX should be out of beta by now, its pretty unfair to say that with "i created this in 5 days" as an argument. the workflow and requirements game artists go through are very different than a CG/render artist. part of the reason minecraft rtx runs so well is because the geometry count is so low through at any given point to the player compared to a cyberpunk2077 for example. adding 100+ grass texture cards to every grass block (to get the same detail level as you did) would destroy performance on most computers. there are also resource packs that increase the texture resolution and (if i remember right) pixel displacement on blocks

[@squidwardo7074]

it would run at 1 frame per 22 hours lol

[@game-rat]

@@squidwardo7074 aCTuALLy, it would run much faster than that. He didn't show one image that took 22 hours to render, he showed a video that took 22 hours to render. Eg, if the render ran at 30 frames per second and was 30 seconds long, that would be 900 images. That would add up to about 1 frame per 88 seconds. Hope this reply wasn't too annoying, lol :)

[@majortritone]

@@game-rat Nah, the "1 frame/22 hours" thing didn't make sense so I'm glad to see some math that I'm too lazy to do. Cheers!

[@Diecani]

@@game-rat it was a joke

[@cruncyart]

@@Diecani that does not make people immune to criticism

[@-mustafa-]

Its crazy how consistent ur upload schedule is with these kind of videos!

[@TheReal.Leo2009]

@DLRKGAMING totally!! Your last upload was definitely not a month ago lol

[@Dave--___--]

@@TheReal.Leo2009 4 months 😀

[@eddy9538]

Donkey

[@zorgun2864]

@DLRKGAMING yeah, Its better to start fresh

[@YoBoyZed]

@@dlrkgaming3537 good luck buddy 💪🔥

[@BartoszBanachewicz]

It's very inspiring to see you that fluent with Blender. Even though you struggled with some of the things, you still were able to make a lot of really cool things happen. Thank you for making this video, it was very enjoyable to watch.

[@skaz_real]

DUDEEE !! this took me straight back to a video i remember seeing in like 2014 that was a realistic minecraft rendered animation

[@ruben7420]

Love how the final result turned out! But please don't compare real time raytracing to a 24 hour render you made. Don't call out the RTX team that it has been in beta for 2 years while you did this in 5 days.

[@spbalance]

Yeah, that comment was.. out of touch

[@krishp1104]

bruh I've seen shaders that look better than this lmao

[@FCRSgaming]

right! I thought he was about to make a playable shader pack when he said that but then proceeds to make a pre-rendered video...

[@Robstrap]

@@spbalance Really is.... his method is literally running 1980x slower than minecraft RTX. Shows his lack of knowledge in game development.

[@Teh_Bean]

@@krishp1104 Maybe you've seen ones that look more appealing, but not with more graphical fidelity. It's not currently possible.

[@Crimjonn]

Man this is CRAZY, I really liked how you made the camera movement, it looked like you're playing Minecraft

[@strukitru]

I mean, he literally imported it from Minecraft

[@TopchetoEU]

should've committed to the tracking method instead

[@GhostlyPianoVRC]

😂

[@JJ-pm1zv]

One Thing that really caught me was that the player doesn't swing the sword to open the door x.x

[@user-mu5sl4vh7m]

Nah not at all

[@thatcrazylobster]

love your stuff man, first vid ive seen and im sold, heres to another sub

[@jjdizz1l]

This was absolutely beautiful and well done. Incredible.

[@Termynater]

Very nice! Your editing and the way you explain has improved a ton from your others vids! I’m excited to see what game you do next 😍

[@IstyManame]

I think you hit the uncanny valley, but the amount of work you put into this project is outstanding. Also you got my sub because of the 0.8% subscribed animation, never seen anything like this before, keep it up!

[@Corzappy]

All hyper/photorealistic texture packs hit the uncanny valley. It's just not possible to make it look good when your textures are 4K and your models have 6 polygons on average, it's like trying to disguise the taste of lemon in lemonade, you can add as much stuff as you like, there's still no getting away from the lemon juice.

[@NousagiCaptain]

Isnt this an improper use of “ uncanny valley”? That only applies to living things doesnt it?

[@IstyManame]

@@NousagiCaptain the original graph is a relation between an object's degree of resemblance to a human being and the emotional response to the object, so technically I'm using it not "properly", but i don't think there is anything wrong with interpreting it because it gives a clear idea of what i meant. Ofc i could instead say " i think your work looks so realistic it's almost uncomfortable to look at because my brain starts to perceive it as a video of a real place but everything is blocky so it confuses and kinda annoys it". Hit the uncanny valley sounds better to me

[@NousagiCaptain]

@@IstyManame Oh ok i see what you mean.

[@Corzappy]

@@NousagiCaptain It’s typically used in reference to human faces or voices because our brains are wired to recognize faces and thus the uncanny valley effect is stronger, but it can totally apply to other things as well. Minecraft is extremely removed from reality, it looks nothing like real life, but then you slap on 4K photo realistic textures and it’s in this weird middle ground, uncanny valley,

[@pythonmaster7130]

In the default textures all the blocks just kind of aesthetically fit together and that is what custom textures always miss. But, these textures are the best ones i have seen so far.

[@skynikz7554]

This is just mind blowing. Amazing work, Lenz! 👏👏👏

[@UNcappedRAVEN]

This is so cool especially for just a week of work, very impressive. Love these videos man keep up the good work

[@clout3997]

Its amazing that he has the patience to do this with Blender. But at the same time, Unreal Engine 5 can get similar graphics like this in real time.. I don't understand why people bother to spend 20 hours to render 30 second animations when UE can do it in real time.

[@bubble8760]

@@clout3997 I never used both of these but, they are not made for the same purpose. If UE5 was truly just better than blender, then blender wouldn't just be THAT popular anymore or I would've heard much more how blender is just replaceable by UE5. It's not just about graphics I guess, and the fact that it takes 20h to render smthg that UE "can do in real time" is just the proof that they basically aren't doing the same things. If it was the case, what is the purpose of blender then? Waste time? Again, I don't know enough to talk but... I mean, If people choose to wait 20h instead of getting something instantly, I guess it's just because they aren't getting the same thing by getting it instantly

[@DrakZhull]

​@@bubble8760 They are not interchangeable. That much you are right about. Blender is a 3D program for building and sculpting individual models with support for rendering on the side. UE5 is a game engine primarily built for rendering 3D assets and entire worlds. Two completely different approaches and focus at different places. No one can say that one is better than the other since they serve different purposes. However, for the rendering part, he is right. There is no point in rendering the scene in Blender for 20h when you have professional rendering software UE5 at your disposal, for free, which can do this in better quality and in real-time. He simply lost a lot of time for no reason.

[@tortaneose]

Man's gonna crap himself when he finds out about the SEUS PTGI Shader + Patrix Resource Pack 256X 💀

[@xStormyyy]

fr like how tf do ppl not know abt these things

[@sigma_799]

this is so amazing. as a fellow 3D modeller. excellent work 😊

[@Zomb1eDawgMC]

This is ridiculously awesome! Amazing work

[@shufflebot5302]

Really like how you dressed up as steve for this video nice touch to detail to make it very realistic !

[@OhioCitizen420]

Good effort, simple and quite amazing for a channel like this !

[@nickyerps5051]

Thats sick man.great job😎✌️

[@Kyberstas]

This is the best graphics I have ever seen work out well and realistic in minecraft, you did a great job!

[@alphathedemon8887]

I really wish this was possible! Sadly, even with something like Unreal 5's nanite tool, creating an entire world with this much detail in a game would be extremely difficult to run... not impossible, just impractical. Still cool to see it in blender though! Awesome work!

[@TriflingToad]

moores law don't fail me now!

[@alphathedemon8887]

Literally just as I wrote this comment, I got a notification about a new update to unreal engine. Turns out, its now possible to do stuff like this in version 5.1. Still, probably would fry your PC, but I wouldn't be against someone attempting it. 😃

[@VeteranX999]

You'd be surprised to find out it is already possible to get similar results in realtime with custom shaders and texture packs in Minecraft.

[@alphathedemon8887]

@Veteran X Damn, really? Now I need to look into this

[@cc3]

It would certainly be achievable with massive optimisations and LOD. It's certainly not fair to compare a blender animation that takes hours to render to a real time game output but this kind of detail would definitely be possible so long as the cloth simulations/block models etc were all pre-baked and cleaned up a bit. Minecraft (bedrock edition) is far better optimised for this kind of scene than blender is, if nvidia or mojang poured the resources into it, we'd have it already.

[@kerhabplays]

man deserves a million ....great animation

[@gandrcraft]

Holy Moly Mate this is amazing! we love it!..thankyou...liked and subscribed

[@krinodagamer6313]

love your dedication AMAZING!!!!

[@nandhuprabu38]

Truly incredible work!!

[@SavageCXV]

Looks great I think if the angle the sword is on and if you add head bobbing it would look basically perfect

[@JenSch87]

amazing work! And the transition is the best i have seen in any comparison video so far

[@shed2838]

This is Amazing. Good job!

[@san4th]

great one mate, very impressive the nether portal looks insanely cool tho

[@opudding7816]

From a 3D hobbyist to another, this is above and beyond!

[@aguex2000]

Honestly this is the best realistic minecraft animation i´ve seen so far in any platform!! Awesome job!here you have my like and subscription

[@jeff911p]

dam it that look so awesome. bring memories playing with friends. ok you got me I guess I can subscribe, hope to see more of this. this was first video I saw of you.

[@AlexiBexi]

Awesome

[@Pixillnow]

Looks amazing! But I hope people realize this is a render and rtx happens in real time. There’s a very big difference and a good reason it’s that much harder to do

[@Systomd]

Congratulation! It would be so goood to play minecraft with your graphics!! :) Thank you for sharing (I didn't knew your channel before and I'm not a minecraft player but this video was so cool and interesting to watch.) 👍

[@wtfwhyisthisnotavailable24234]

You actually achieved a very nice and consistent look to it, would love to see Minecraft looking something like this one day.

[@Loooore3483]

3:35 But Mc Painting are pixelizated versions of allready existing paintings. Made by Kristoffer Zetterstrand, brother in law of Noch. Also, sword casts shadow, and doest move whail oppenind the door. But accept that, it's great!

[@LenzGraphics]

I didn’t realize any of that before! Thank you.

[@g0fher]

Hello Lenz! That's just an amazing content. You have found your unique place on KZbin, very original. I would love to see Subnautica Bellow Zero next. It's just fitting your style perfectly and will contrast green videos you made! Please please please 😍

[@creatorofimages7925]

The lighting and color composition is spot on! Love it. 💙

[@M4XI54]

I love it, thank you for this

[@wallerron]

Never heard of this channel before today. IF your other content is more inspiration/showcase rather than tutorials, I am in for the ride.

[@ChickensEntertainment]

Dude is underrated and deserves more attention. I think putting more razzle dazzle in your voice will go a long way. Though we all understand if you don’t have the energy to do it with all the hard work you do.

[@Robstrap]

Dude probably works the same hours as everyone else lol... you realise this stuff isn't hard right? Its just quite time consuming. But making this in a week really is not difficult.

[@ChickensEntertainment]

@@Robstrap And where are your videos creating this type of stuff?

[@Olibaby12]

I think this is how people usually talk when English is their second language. Lenz is German and I think it's straining to talk English in an understandable, yet also hyped way that KZbinrs usually use.

[@user-rh3xd4cf1d]

I like the way he talks, not everybody needs “razzle dazzle”

[@RemniCreatives]

This would actually make me want to play minecraft. Gorgeous work, and you make it seem so easy kekw.

[@caramel7050]

why would you want to play the game looking like this? its so out of place with the art direction lol

[@SylvianX]

Fantastic work. I really love the comparision of original vs your work.

[@blackheartgaming6121]

I would buy Minecraft all over again just because of this

[@DaddyMouse]

Did you render that in cycles? Because that's some insane looking lighting Great job, can't wait to see more of you!

[@Soarific]

Incredible work, looks amazing.

[@arson8582]

Wow , love the details. Especially the grass. Had to watch the last run through at 1/4 speed to really appreciate it.

[@bibekgarbuja225]

This time, you didn't forget you are an 3d artist😆

[@ShortsCreator070]

Lol

[@pesaksintondji]

How in the world this is still looking gorgeous 🥰 in 144p ?!!

[@vincewa2142]

Amazing work!!

[@Luredreier]

That looks absolutely amazing, thank you. :-)

[@stevencruz8619]

I actually want this to be a texture pack now it looks so beautiful

[@Corzappy]

In my opinion it looks absolutely hideous. Very impressive, but super impractical and painfully out of place. Hyperrealistic textures in Minecraft are slam dunk in the middle of the uncanny valley.

[@skillerz8744]

@@Corzappy yeah, as you said, it’s your opinion. Realistic minecraft and BSL shaders are in the top most downloaded ressource pack and shaders pack. There is a demande for people interested in it and this one looks better than the 2 I named.

[@Corzappy]

@@skillerz8744 Shaders look great with base or vanilla-faithful textures, it's the hyperrealistic textures that look like absolute garbage.

[@apophenic_]

@@Corzappy Stop trying to limit everything to your shallow concept of the minecraft motif. Things are great without being "true to the source". Fuck the source. I want cool shit.

[@Corzappy]

@@apophenic_ I’m not being an elitist trying to claim things should stick to the vanilla style, I think highly stylized texture packs are really cool, I just think that hyper realistic texture packs look like total garbage every time.

[@Rakin3011]

I dont have any interest in things like these but after seeing his clash of clans one, i just subbed cuz i really liked how hard he worked and wanted to support him. Its crazy how good this shit is

[@aussieknuckles]

I like how you explained how you did thing's, like the RTX slide on and off, I never knew how that was done, and you found a clever work around method.

[@churchtunes_]

that looks sick! nice work bro

[@k5r297]

if this is actual texture pack I'll buy it,looks so coooool

[@DueySR]

No you wouldn't.

[@kenny_eats_many]

@@DueySR and what makes you think that?

[@DueySR]

@@kenny_eats_many It feels like a very common thing people say but don't mean. Especially given how many free resource packs are out there, it's unlikely that someone would fairly pay what a fully-developed pack of this quality would cost.

[@natsudragneelthefiredragon]

It isnt btw, only a few blocks were retextured in blender, this is what is known as a "prerender" It took a day to make that pretty scene render, games have to make that pretty scene render immediately Not possible currently, also the methods used waste a lot of resources and are unoptimized

[@Ali-Samed20]

It is "RTXXL" now.

[@captureinsidethesound]

Its technically just Ray Tracing but i totally get the joke lol.

[@MIGisUsingEviL]

wow i would love to play this version of minecraft it looks amazing well done

[@Mathiesen84]

Looks amazing dude!

[@chris6ix.]

My guy...your work is pretty impressive, but you still don't seem to understand what "RTX" is... RTX is about raytraced light...not about high resolution textures. Stop claiming to give games RTX or "improve RTX" when you're "just" making HD versions of the game's Textures/Models.

[@TheTechAdmin]

How can someone with such a strong foundation for compute shading have such a disconnect in what it takes to update an actual game/program? DO you REALLY think because you were able to do this ONE unique to YOU scene in 1 week; that it has anything to do with programming the foundation of a game? That's like saying because you were able to trace your hand with a pencil, everyone older than you should be able to paint master pieces.

[@Headlikeanorange84]

Amazing work!

[@XxxmincrafterxxX]

What a guy!! 5 min video after all this work. Doesn’t waste my time and gives me what I clicked on. GOAT

[@Lithor]

I like the amount of detail Lenz put in this. He even added smoke to my computer, goes to show how considerate he is.

[@CatsHaveEars]

Awesome work. I like that you kept it real with sharing your daily progression with it rather than just a "hey I made this thing". It gives people interested in making this stuff a rough idea of the time investment needed once they've learned some of the necessities.

[@renormalization]

looks amazing!

[@withoutcontext7953]

That looks bonkers man. Great work.

[@TechInquiry]

this looks amazing man!! id get back into minecraft if it looked like this!

[@destero8853]

Looks great, i love the grass!

[@LouieG2112]

Amazing work man! Liked and commented for algorithm

[@Lucas_Simoni]

You are a visual effects god to me! Awesome work!

[@jeff_j_chen]

Incredible job! Would definitely love some more detailed tutorials or even just a speed video on how you made certain things, like the grass block and nether portal animation : )

[@adsgnz]

Incredibly beautiful work!

[@Shortom_Boy]

Just love it! keep up

[@Fluddvs]

I almost cried lookin at the results, looks amazing‼️

[@jasiel3000]

U sick BRO, U ROCKED IT, AMAZING JOB KING !!!👍🔥

[@copperheadroad567]

Wow!!! Mighty impressive work, Sir! This is the first video I've seen from you and a huge hats off to you! ...now do The Long Dark!!! *drool* I'd kill to see what that game would look like if it were realistic!

[@fl260]

That was extremely beautiful. Super well made.

[@Joe-es3jg]

the progress on this channel is crazy, awesome bro

[@Trollerybob]

this was awesome definetly worth liking

[@wanderousblaze4746]

Bro you did absolutely fantastic

[@shudaen]

you deserve way more subs, awesome video!

[@johnly_]

Wow awesome job!!

[@Strutz3E]

Bravo!! This is incredible

[@realwhoasked]

I love that once again, the ReplayMod was the key to create such a cool video.

[@chtyt]

Really very very good! I think you deserve more subscribers :)

[@TRFFMTAE]

bruh... THIS IS SO COOL!!!!!!!!!!! AWESOME WORK!

[@gamingkesultan]

That's insane brother...... Loved it

[@kani_mar]

Fantastic work

[@Reverttoislam634]

Nice 🙂👍 great job man

[@xSoporific1]

Nice work!