Minecraft-Radiance/Radiance

Health v2 · maintenance only

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1089 stars · 57 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

Radiance is a Minecraft mod that replaces the vanilla OpenGL renderer with a custom Vulkan C++ renderer supporting hardware-accelerated ray tracing and path tracing. It integrates modern upscaling technologies like DLSS, FSR, and XeSS, and runs on Windows and Linux.

Use cases

• ray trace minecraft with rtx hardware
• replace minecraft opengl renderer with vulkan
• run minecraft with path tracing and pbr texture packs
• improve minecraft performance with dlss or fsr upscaling
• play minecraft with realistic lighting and shadows
• use hardware ray tracing on linux minecraft

When to choose

• you want native hardware ray tracing in Minecraft on Windows or Linux
• you have an RTX-capable GPU and want path-traced visuals
• you want to bypass OpenGL performance limits with a Vulkan pipeline
• you want DLSS/FSR/XeSS upscaling support in Minecraft

When to avoid

• you need a stable, production-ready renderer for everyday gameplay
• you play on macOS or on hardware without ray tracing support
• you rely on shader packs or mods incompatible with a replaced renderer
• you want a lightweight mod that does not overhaul the rendering pipeline

Facets

plugin · maturity experimental

graphics game-engine simulation graphics windows jvm minecraft-mod vulkan-renderer ray-tracing path-tracing dlss fsr hardware-accelerated minecraft game-development linux gpu

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