AlternateCraft
### AlternateCraft
Transform your Minecraft world into a surreal, dreamlike dimension with AlternateCraft – a shader that makes reality itself pulse, warp, and shift before your eyes.
**Features**
Hypnotic Pulsation – All textures pulse with multi-layered frequencies, creating a mesmerizing visual rhythm
Reality Distortion – Surfaces undulate and shift in fluid, wave-like patterns
Dynamic Patterns – Subtle flowing patterns weave through textures creating depth
Atmospheric Tint – A distinctive color shift adds to the altered reality feel
Subtle Glow – Pulsing areas emit a faint luminescence enhancing the dreamlike state
Performance Optimized – Carefully crafted to maintain good FPS even on mid-range systems
**Perfect For**
Surreal and psychedelic building projects
Experimental adventure maps
Trippy content creation
Liminal space exploration
Unique streaming content with a twist
Players seeking an alternative, mind-bending Minecraft experience
aesyin’s shaders


# About
aesyin’s shaders is a shaderpack that aims to cartoonify and stylize Minecraft’s look, developed for Minecraft: Java Edition. It’s bright and vibrant.
_Resource Pack used is Bare Bones_
This shader includes:
– Realtime Shadows
– Bloom
– Motion Blur
– Entity Outlines
– and Customisable Water.
_**This shader supports [Voxy](https://modrinth.com/mod/voxy)**_
# AGREEMENT
This shaderpack is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0).
You are free to share and modify the pack as long as you:
– Credit the original creator (aesyin)
– Do not use it for commercial purposes
– License modified versions under the same terms
# INSTALLATION
– Download and install Optifine or Iris
– Download the shaderpack
– Put the shaderpack inside .minecraftshaderpacks
– Launch Minecraft
– Open Options, Video Settings, Shaders
– Choose aesyin’s shaders
Adaptive Outline
### This is a vanilla shader with a stroke.
The stroke brightens the light areas and darkens the dark areas.

шейдер изменём только в final.fsh
“`
#version 330 compatibility
uniform sampler2D colortex0;
uniform sampler2D depthtex0;
in vec2 texcoord;
layout(location = 0) out vec4 color;
void main() {
vec2 texel = 1.0 / vec2(textureSize(colortex0, 0));
vec4 scene = texture(colortex0, texcoord);
float d_center = 1.0 – textureLod(depthtex0, texcoord, 0.0).r;
vec2 offsets[2] = vec2[](
vec2(texel.x, 0),
vec2(texel.x * 3.0, 0)
);
float gradients[4];
for(int i = 0; i < 2; i++) {
float d_right = 1.0 - textureLod(depthtex0, texcoord + offsets[i], 0.0).r;
float d_left = 1.0 - textureLod(depthtex0, texcoord - offsets[i], 0.0).r;
gradients[i] = abs(d_right - d_left) / (offsets[i].x * 2.0);
vec2 vertical_offset = vec2(0, offsets[i].x);
float d_up = 1.0 - textureLod(depthtex0, texcoord + vertical_offset, 0.0).r;
float d_down = 1.0 - textureLod(depthtex0, texcoord - vertical_offset, 0.0).r;
gradients[i + 2] = abs(d_up - d_down) / (vertical_offset.y * 2.0);
}
float gradient_ratio_h = gradients[0] / (gradients[1] + 0.0001);
float gradient_ratio_v = gradients[2] / (gradients[3] + 0.0001);
bool is_real_edge_h = gradient_ratio_h > 2.0;
bool is_real_edge_v = gradient_ratio_v > 2.0;
float edge = 0.0;
if(is_real_edge_h || is_real_edge_v) {
float max_gradient = max(gradients[0], gradients[2]);
edge = max_gradient * 500.0;
}
float depth_precision = 0.001 + d_center * 0.01;
if(edge < depth_precision * 100.0) {
edge = 0.0;
}
float threshold = 0.15;
if(edge > threshold && (is_real_edge_h || is_real_edge_v)) {
float edge_strength = clamp((edge – threshold) * 2.0, 0.0, 1.0);
vec4 color_up = texture(colortex0, texcoord + vec2(0, texel.y));
vec4 color_down = texture(colortex0, texcoord – vec2(0, texel.y));
vec4 color_left = texture(colortex0, texcoord – vec2(texel.x, 0));
vec4 color_right = texture(colortex0, texcoord + vec2(texel.x, 0));
vec4 avg_color = (color_up + color_down + color_left + color_right) * 0.25;
float neighbor_brightness = dot(avg_color.rgb, vec3(0.299, 0.587, 0.114));
float brightness_factor;
if(neighbor_brightness > 0.35) { // here we change the change threshold
brightness_factor = 1.0 + edge_strength * 0.2; // we’re changing it here brightens
} else {
brightness_factor = 1.0 – edge_strength * 0.2; // we’re changing it here darkens
}
color.rgb = scene.rgb * brightness_factor;
color.a = scene.a;
} else {
color = scene;
}
}
“`