Aurora Fantasy is a Minecraft shader pack designed to transform your world into a magical, dreamlike, and cinematic atmosphere. It focuses on vibrant fantasy lighting, glowing night fireflies, rich colors, and enchanting night skies featuring the Northern Lights (Auroras).
Color Saturation Fix: Resolved over-saturated and overly bright colors across all times of day, night, and weather conditions.
Night Rain Lighting Fix: Fixed an issue where nighttime rain appeared excessively bright, resembling daytime.
Night Vision Fix: Fixed visual glitches and rendering issues when using the Night Vision potion effect.
Aurora Enhancements: Applied minor visual tweaks and refinements to the night Aurora sky effect.
Default Profile Adjustment: The default graphics profile is now set to Extreme. If you experience lower performance, you can easily switch to a lower profile in the shader settings.
This project offers two distinct visual style options:
Aurora Fantasy: Designed for a classic fantasy aesthetic with vibrant color palettes and a magical aurora vibe.
Aurora Astral: Focused on a deep cosmic experience with celestial bodies, galactic skies, and animated astral rifts.
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Ethereal Nights & Fireflies: Northern Lights (Aurora Borealis), realistic stars, and magical glowing fireflies transforming the night sky.
Atmospheric Clouds: Dynamic clouds and soft fog adding depth and life to the horizon.
Living Water & Refined Rain: Realistic waves, crisp water reflections, clear rain droplets, and dynamic rain puddles.
Modern Reflections: High-quality Screen Space Reflections (SSR) on water and wet surfaces for a polished visual style.
Immersive Weather: Realistic dust and sandstorms in desert biomes during rain.
Excellent Performance: Built to run efficiently across a wide variety of hardware setups.
Ultra-Distance Support: Compatibility with large-scale rendering mods such as Distant Horizons (toggleable in shader settings).
Simplified Graphics Profiles: Quick choice between Balanced and Extreme presets.
Balanced Profile
Minecraft 26.1.2 and Older:
NVIDIA GTX 1050 (or equivalent): Runs significantly smoother, delivering 40 to 60 FPS (~50 FPS average).
Minecraft 26.2 (More Demanding)
NVIDIA GTX 1050 (or equivalent): Delivers approximately 30 to 40 FPS on average.
NVIDIA GTX 1660 (or equivalent): Delivers approximately 40 FPS on average.
Extreme Profile
Minecraft 26.2 (More Demanding)
NVIDIA GTX 1660 (or equivalent): Delivers approximately 35 FPS on average.
(Note: Higher-end GPUs are recommended to reach 60 FPS on Minecraft 26.2 under the Extreme profile).
KDXavier: Original Creator of MakeUp - Ultra Fast shader
in2bubble: Shader Modifications for Aurora Fantasy
Entokito: Additional shader code (used under LGPL v3.0)
Simon Rodriguez: FXAA 3.11 anti-aliasing algorithm
License: GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 (LGPL v3.0)
Original GitHub (Unmodified Fork): MakeUpUltraFast
Modified GitHub Repository: Aurora-Fantasy
Support & Issues: Please report any issues or leave your feedback directly in the CurseForge Comments Section.
