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The Truth About Shaders

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aboveordinary's Avatar aboveordinary
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Intro:
In many projects and builds, people always use shaders. They make even the dumbest of landscapes look beautiful and unique. Shaders are a quick and easy way to make ANYTHING receive more views/diamonds.

Point 1:
Take for example, this dirt house
Without the Shaders:
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With the Shaders:
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Point 2:
With shaders, even the least impressive landscape looks amazing
Sadly, I can't get spoilers to work
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Point 3:
Lens Flairs!
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Conclusion:
Shaders are a nice technique that you can use to boost likes/views on just about anything. Doing a mob interview? Shaders! Playing hungergames? Shaders! Making a minecraft comic? Shaders! If you have any other ideas about the shaders, post them in the comments for me please.

Please excuse the post time on this, I spent hours rummaging through imgur.
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Tow3rZ
10/08/2019 12:23 pm
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WHERES THE DOWNLAOD BUTTON
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BlockyBoi
08/10/2018 1:19 am
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DIAMONDS!!
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DuckMasterAl
07/27/2018 8:27 am
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Why can't we download this?
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ultrascreamboss
03/14/2018 12:49 pm
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how do i download this??
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Jory42
01/22/2018 6:27 pm
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I'm having this trouble promoting my new map as my current setup can't run shaders.
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Archaea
06/15/2016 7:18 pm
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Thats very true, but another thing to consider is art in real life. Imagine you have a canvas with a landscape drawn on it. No colour. Wouldn't it look much better with paint on it?
Now yes I do understand you're point, are shaders used to make bad builds look good? Can be yes, but they also help good builds look even better. As AtomicWaffle14 said, build it without shaders first and see how it looks. If it looks good use shaders. And the shaders are like anything else a marketer would use to gain attention. Thats the name of the game here. Attention and Marketing.
Enjoyed your post though and love hearing differing opinions! Keep up the good work :D
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magicdead1
04/05/2016 5:00 am
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so true
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AtomicWaffle14
03/29/2016 10:44 pm
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My tip to everyone: build without shaders! If it looks good without them, imagine how it will look when you finish and turn on shaders!
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SIMMEZUKO
03/15/2016 3:12 pm
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There's this chick called Noxie.
She has posted a resourcepack called "Realism - Fantasia 256x"
To be honest, it's one of those stereotypical packs that claims to be real-looking, but the high resolutions and bad smoothing makes it look very boring and grid-like! However, she uses shaders in the screenshots, and that makes hundreds of people go bananas and comment stuff like: "OMG, so real-looking!" "Great lighting, best pack ever!"

She even typed in the description: "Recommended to use with shaders"...
NO SHIT, is there any pack that does not look better with shaders?
And she says that because she knows that the pack itself is pretty bad. Another funny thing is that she constantly removes my comments, because I'm asking about why she intends on using shaders and so on.
Now she's even blocked me, which is hilarious! She can't take criticism at all...
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