Minecraft Shaders: Customize Your Complementary Shaders

Following a short preview is how to edit the settings for Complementary shaders Unbound v5.2.2
The setting should be the same whether you're using Forge or Fabric.

[@sherlockowiec1693]

Crazy that for a such popular shaderpack there's absolutely no one sharing their presets online. That helped a ton, thanks!

[@MrThaylar]

The only real reason I got into it was a preset video for an older version of the shaders. I think that one actually had better options, but the new version has compatibility with Distant Horizons.

[@netmonkey2005]

Thank you for this. Copied all your settings and have dropped from 120FPS to 60FPS but will see how the game performs Playing ATM10 is a beast of a modpack. It looks unbelievably beautiful and immersive. Thank you for sharing this info.

[@MrThaylar]

@@netmonkey2005 if you cranked up the weather effects so that you can actually see the rain, that will have a large impact on frames

[@aloythedeer8987]

very nice, these are definitely some beautiful setting that make it overall look/feel better :3 looks equally good with the reimagined settings (for clouds, water & stuff)

[@StillOnTrack]

Thanks for the explainer! I didn't follow exactly as I wanted water to be a little different personally, but I greatly appreciate knowing how to change stuff and what it does thank to you! The only improvement that would be good is if you could include timestamps for if we want to come back to a section.

[@nicolasbarus4522]

I love the shaders now, I dind know how to configure them well, you helped a lot thank you❤️🙏

[@iTzReaLeaZe]

Ok i did the exact same setting on my 4060 and now i really have the look i wanted all teh time thats so crazy good THANK U and happy new year :)

[@MrThaylar]

Thank you, and Happy New Year to you also!

[@shinx8658]

This is so beautiful, thank you so much 💙💙💙

[@SHUNKUN-tf2pz]

Can u tell me please how to make sun less bright it is just too bright

[@MrThaylar]

I'm not aware of any way to change the brightness of the sun itself.

[@lolkek030]

Great video but please make the music a bit quieter. Also would be nice if you'd include the euphoria addon for complementary

[@SawcedUpKay]

this helped sooo much thank you!

[@FelonyGuy]

Thanks bro I got a proper guide❤

[@AnschauKauã]

Hii, nice video, but I'm having a Issue with the Sun, when the Sun is the Sun of Minecraft and in -40 Angle, the Sun get glitched, and it's half finished at sunset. I wanted to know a way to fix this, I use Iris to play with the Shader.

[@saltysaphir]

Hello do you know where i can turn on the mob flashing red on hit. It's turned off and i can't seem to find the setting. Thanks for the settings it's really nice.

[@MrThaylar]

Uh, I am sorry. I didn’t know that was an option? I don’t think I even pay attention to if mobs change colors when hit.

[@CompassRoseGaming]

Heres hoping i can find a way to make it so that caves/indoors arent so dark. Just started watching this video

[@MrThaylar]

Nope! Bring your torches! Although glowing ores will help light things a very small amount.

[@hannaht6508]

I have this shader but it’s really really dark in the nether and i can’t really mine for things underground 😢 i tried looking for brightness in the settings but it’s nowhere to be found. is there another setting that can adjust this problem? thanks!

[@MrThaylar]

Sorry it took so long to get to this. Go into your settings for the shader pack: Lighting > Lighting Color Multipliers > The Nether Dimension > ... Then adjust the Lighting Intensity Multiplier. By default it should be 1.0. Increasing it would make the Nether brighter, decreasing it would make the Nether darker.

[@LukeSulz]

Is there a way to turn down the thick hazy white band that is all over the horizon during day and night. When you look directly up the sky is a bright blue but all over the horizon it's a blinding white light.

[@MrThaylar]

Check your fog settings? Otherwise, I am not sure. I don’t seem to suffer from the variety of problems that players ask about. So, I don’t really know how to fix any of them.

[@onurertas3791]

Unless I set it too high, the trees stay vanilla instead of light... I don't use Optifine.

[@MrThaylar]

I don't understand what you mean?

[@0rig1n54]

for me even with most of your settings on the sun has a crazy glare that blinds almost my entire view except for 30 blocks closest to camera, do you have an idea what it could be? feels like i tried almost everything

[@Daniel-jl8hw]

bro its even more better if you provide the config txt file in the shaderpack folder, it contains all the modifaction done and just by copy pasting it the same changes can be imported quickly

[@MrThaylar]

That requires me to set up someplace for you to download it and me to update and maintain it. You can do the same thing for yourself after learning how to adjust the settings. Plus, it has the added benefit of being forward compatible. The settings saved as a txt file, I think, are unique to the version of the shaders. At least, I never tried loading the prior version settings so I couldn’t say what would happen.

[@Reza-px8ng]

@@MrThaylar google drive exist ......

[@Daniel-jl8hw]

@@MrThaylar Oh I see!, Great edit btw, I'll do as you say

[@invasive8379]

Mostly also done like this so you stay for the whole video instead of just snatching the configs and leaving giving him a better video retention so his videos don't flop. It might look egoistical but It's probably thanks to this that you found the video in the first place since youtube put it in front of you because it has good retention.

[@Reza-px8ng]

@@invasive8379 damn alright it's understandable, for people like me who didn't even watch the video and just search for the config and leave

[@AhmadNextLevel]

Dude i have issue in that everything looks fine but when i try to put boat in water i can see underwater through the boat ...i have no idea how to fix that...do u have any solution?

[@MrThaylar]

Is it a clipping issue with your water settings and the boat? I usually use an odd mix of reimagined and unbound. I like the vanilla-like water setting so it’s essentially flat. Otherwise, I am not sure how you would fix that. Probably have to get in touch with the Dev

[@AhmadNextLevel]

@MrThaylar thnx for reply that tho i alrdy fix it ...there was an problem with some mod i add it before i make n new file n remove that crashed mod ...thnx anyway 🌹

[@NasirWalker-l2w]

Just got a 4090 and I can 100% tell you that the only reason these shaders look good is because of that 4090, obviously other things play a huge role, but yeah.

[@MrThaylar]

I'm still running a 2080 super and would 100% disagree!

[@Mest9746]

gtx 1080 same render 80%

[@the_real_yummuy]

@@Mest9746 wow is the gtx 1080 really that strong? damn

[@ingem.3807]

Somehow the aurora and nebula won't work for me. Is it maybe only in newer versions of minecraft. I have 18.2

[@MrThaylar]

That could be a possibility. I always assume there are always a lot of compatibility things going on between Minecraft, the shaders mod, and the shader pack.

[@AllayMystic]

Bro how can i make ores glow on bsl shaders?

[@MrThaylar]

All I can say is look for a glowing ores option in the BSL Shaders options. I don’t use it so I can’t say whether or not it even does glowing ores.

[@mihocuk]

Thanks!

[@1rjdsz]

how do i turn down sun glare i cant find the "sky" option

[@MrThaylar]

Are you referring to bloom or lens flare? Either way, may look for those options. I believe they may be under Atmosphere

[@FuukZ]

what is the resource packs you are using?

[@MrThaylar]

Stay True

[@FuukZ]

@@MrThaylar ty

[@IakovosLOUlakous]

For some reason whenever i use shaders my clouds are glowing. Can i fix that somehow?

[@MrThaylar]

I'm not sure. Despite being around for a long time, Shaders still seem to have many buggy issues depending on the state of the mods installed and your device drivers. You could try disabling the clouds or just go through and tweak all the settings to see if it changes something. Or try older versions of the shaders to see if that fixes your problem. Though, if you're using Distant Horizons, older versions of Complementary don't support it. Few shaders do support DH.

[@IakovosLOUlakous]

Thank you so much dude! I don't have DH but i installed an older version of the shaders and the clouds and sky are back to normal! ( when i had the issue the sky was also black ).😁👍

[@MrThaylar]

@@IakovosLOUlakous I actually like one of the older versions of Complementary better, but Distant Horizons is too good because I can play at the default 12 loaded chunks and then DH adds in the rest so that it isn't playing in a miniature world. Helps keep the shaders running at something playable until all the added lights, villagers, machines, or whatever get too demanding.

[@IakovosLOUlakous]

@@MrThaylar I'll try that!

[@Luca.B.]

Do you use a mod for these sounds?

[@MrThaylar]

I do use Ambient Sounds. Nearly a must have because it adds a lot of ambiance to your biomes

[@steezer8086]

what's that minimap mod you are using? Xaero's?

[@MrThaylar]

Journeymap. Minecolonies has some Journeymap integration features.

[@xneronoir]

Why do all of my shaders look blurry as hell and yours are crisp even tho we use the same?

[@MrThaylar]

I couldn't begin to help with that. There are some mod incompatibilities listed on their website, and officially Oculus isn't supported. Though, that's what I'm using and it's always seemed to work fine.

[@xneronoir]

@@MrThaylar got no mods except optifine but i configured my BSL shaders to look nice now before i uses complementary they looked crisp when i turned off antialiasing but whent blurry as soon as i moved that annoyed me

[@MrThaylar]

@@xneronoir I would take that to the dev's then. Report your Minecraft, Optifine, and Complementary versions, and your PC specs and that turning on antialiasing causes everything to go really blurry. I think that's what you're saying is happening, correct?

[@xneronoir]

@@MrThaylar yea i remember it wasnt like this in 1.20

[@MrThaylar]

@@xneronoir could just be Optifine in whatever version you’re on. I still play 1.20

[@stonehengemaca]

I get 1 fps on minimum settings with the slightest hint of a shader...

[@PeteDunes]

That's not because of the shader, that's because you clearly have the worst computer in the universe, I easily get hundreds of fps.

[@stonehengemaca]

@@PeteDunes That's because you have the greatest computer in the universe.

[@Phobosc]

Thats clearly because he has the greatest pc in the universe. I use shaders and I get slightly less than a hundred fps.@@stonehengemaca

[@Vektroid_]

@@PeteDunes Mr. i have it better than u..

[@Noizzed]

60 FPS at medium, 40-50FPS at high. Rx 570 Ryzen 3 2200G, 16gb ram (12 aasigned, though not using more than 8)

[@mateuhavril1628]

😍😍😍😍

[@Thereisnoname-_-]

Config pls

[@Mijehake]

Music is mad loud with your voice.. hard to keep up.

[@MrThaylar]

Yeah. Been noted. I didn’t have same setup as I used to have before we moved. I didn’t notice it when making the video.

[@KingsweetCORNLOOL]

Hey do you know how to make the moon and sun and clouds a cube again. I think it looks more Minecrafty.

[@MrThaylar]

Use Complementary Reimagined. It gives you the blocky clouds. Not sure about the moon or sun.

[@offdazoinkeyss6451]

Good lord thank you so fucking much bro

[@Mr.Villager1]

*Appearing* Hello :] and that Notch bless you all! *Vanishes*

[@JamesColins-o8u]

Thanks!

[@Bettyy]

Thank you!