LVP — Lit Vanilla Plus
LVP (Lit Vanilla Plus) is a Minecraft shaderpack for Iris Shaders, built to enhance the vanilla Minecraft visual experience without losing its original atmosphere and visual identity.
LVP focuses on improving the way Minecraft handles lighting, shadows, weather, foliage, atmosphere, water, and camera effects, with configurable options that allow the shader to scale from performance-oriented setups to higher-quality visuals.
Features
- Real-time shadows for terrain, entities, players, and supported block entities
- Configurable shadow system with adjustable resolution, distance, bias, filtering, and shadow strength
- Local lighting effects for visible light sources
- Colored lighting with configurable colors, radius, falloff, saturation, and occlusion
- Cloud shading and cloud shadows that interact with directional lighting
- Dynamic foliage with wind movement and player/entity interaction
- Rain effects with configurable intensity, density, movement, and droplet properties
- Wet surfaces and puddles during rainfall
- Screen-space water reflections (experimental)
- Depth of Field with manual focus and autofocus options
- Motion blur for camera movement and first-person objects
- Camera effects including configurable FOV effects and vignette
- Dimension-specific atmosphere for the Nether and End
- Biome-aware Nether atmosphere for different Nether biomes
- Fluid fog for water, lava, and powder snow
- End Portal rendering
- Beacon beam rendering with configurable color
- Performance and quality profiles for different hardware configurations
Design Philosophy
LVP is built around a simple goal:
Enhance vanilla Minecraft rather than replace it.
The shaderpack aims to preserve Minecraft's recognizable lighting and atmosphere while adding greater depth, environmental interaction, and visual detail.
Every major system is configurable where practical, allowing players to choose between performance, balance, and visual quality.
Compatibility
LVP is developed for Minecraft 26.2 using Iris Shaders.
Performance and compatibility may vary depending on GPU hardware, shader settings, resource packs, mods, and other rendering modifications.
Current Status
LVP V1.2
LVP is actively developed. Some advanced rendering systems remain experimental and may be refined or replaced in future versions.
Water reflections are currently experimental.
LVP does not currently advertise unfinished development systems such as fishing-line shadows or other experimental effects as completed features.
Credits & Licensing
LVP is an independent shaderpack project and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Mojang Studios, Microsoft, or Iris.
Minecraft is a trademark of Mojang Studios / Microsoft.
LVP is All Rights Reserved.
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## Release Notes
LVP V1 is the first major release of the shaderpack, focused on building a custom rendering foundation with dynamic lighting, enhanced atmosphere, colored light sources, improved shadows, and custom dimension rendering.
### Added
- Custom dynamic lighting system
- Colored light sources for supported light-emitting objects
- Dynamic lighting for dropped light-emitting items
- Custom lighting for:
- Sun
- Moon
- Lava
- End Crystal
- End Portal
- Other supported light sources
- Colored dynamic light support
- Custom shadow rendering
- Improved shadow visibility during strong daylight
- Custom Nether sky rendering
- Custom End sky rendering
- Textured End sky
- Enhanced night sky and star visibility
- Custom fog rendering
- Enhanced atmospheric rendering
- Foliage physics
- Custom End Portal rendering
- Connected-style End Portal visual effect
- Near-player light glow effect
- Custom entity and item lighting behavior
### Improved
- Improved shadow consistency throughout the day/night cycle
- Improved shadow visibility during midday
- Improved lighting color separation between different light sources
- Improved End dimension visual rendering
- Improved portal rendering continuity
- Improved nighttime atmosphere
- Improved sky readability
- Improved lighting interaction with scene shadows
- Improved visual consistency between different rendering passes
### Fixed
- Fixed several dynamic-light rendering issues
- Fixed dropped-item lighting incorrectly following the player
- Fixed lighting appearing significantly weaker during nighttime
- Fixed daylight shadows becoming too faint around midday
- Fixed several End sky rendering issues
- Fixed fog behavior across supported dimensions
- Fixed visual artifacts around End Portal rendering
- Fixed several rendering-pass conflicts between lighting and shadows
- Fixed multiple shader compilation and pipeline issues discovered during development
### Performance
- Continued optimization of the V1 rendering pipeline
- Reduced unnecessary shader calculations where possible
- Improved rendering stability across major shader passes
> Performance optimization is still an ongoing part of LVP development. V1 prioritizes establishing the rendering architecture and visual foundation before deeper optimization work.
### Compatibility
- Designed for Minecraft Java Edition with Iris Shader support.
- Compatibility may vary depending on Minecraft, Iris, Sodium, GPU, and other rendering-related mods.
- LVP is actively developed and may contain experimental rendering features.
## Known Limitations
- Dynamic lighting can still have a significant performance impact.
- Some lighting effects may behave differently depending on the rendering pass used by Minecraft/Iris.
- Certain entity and item lighting cases remain under active development.
- Some visual effects are experimental and may change in future versions.
## Development Status
- LVP V1 — Initial Major Release**
V1 establishes the core rendering architecture of LVP. Future updates will focus primarily on stability, optimization, lighting accuracy, and visual refinement rather than simply adding more effects.
### Version Philosophy
- V1 → Build the foundation.**
- V1.x → Stabilize and optimize.**
- V2 → Expand the rendering architecture.**
