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Vanilla RTX Normals

The default ray-traced Minecraft graphics, featuring handcrafted 16x normal maps! — Vanilla Resources Made Available for Minecraft with RTX.

File Details

Vanilla-RTX-Normals-1.21.150.mcpack

  • R
  • Jun 27, 2025
  • 2.56 MB
  • 34.0K
  • 1.21.90

File Name

Vanilla-RTX-Normals-1.21.150.mcpack

Supported Versions

  • 1.21.90

Release Notes:

• All files within the pack now use TARGA format (where applicable), which comes with a few benefits:
- Less unnecessary data.
- More efficient batch-processing of files (benefits the upcoming Tuner app)

- Distributable package sizes have been reduced by up to 50% (This is also great for the Tuner app, which comes with the ability to auto-update Vanilla RTX)
- Unpacked package size is up to 10 times larger, which in turn leads to snappier load times in-game. (raw data, no decoding overhead)

- Unified colorspaces of all images to 8-bit per-channel RGBA.

• Removed Fogless Option
Note: Fog will be tunable in the future via the Vanilla RTX Tuner app, you will soon be able to thicken, lighten, or completely disable fog permanently!

• Removed all Education Edition content from the pack (decoupled into standalone, world-only packs which will be available soon)

• Updated fog format versions to 1.21.90

• Fixed missing MER animation of respawn anchor top, consistent with nether portals, through uniformly brighter, this inconsistency is intentional.

• The pack now utilizes textures_list.json and contents.json (built-in Minecraft features for caching)

•  Minimum engine version is now 1.21.90

• Other Changes
- Readded a subtle emissivity effect to dragon egg as it became clear in vibrant visuals this is the intended look of dragon egg.
- Increased Education Edition-related blocks' normal intensities, these changes transferred over the now-decoupled Chemistry RTX Normals pack, as well as Chemistry RTX Opus.
- Updated various MERs for consistency
- Quality adjustments to a variety of textures, sunflower, torches, allium flower, alongside various other normal map adjustments
- Revamped cobweb, with a new silky touch!
- Revamped lever, now consistent with cobblestone and wood.

▣ Enhanced (Option) Changelogs:

• Once again reverted spyglass workaround to 1.21.20, previous workaround's file size was unsensible.

• Lava now appears brighter in Enhanced option.

• Soul Torches emissivity workaround is now stronger in Enhanced option.