Toon Shades

A lightweight, cartoon-inspired shader that breathes life into your Minecraft world with those old school pixelated toon graphics.

🎨 Features :

Bring your world to life without sacrificing your framerate. This shader focuses on clean, cartoon-style aesthetics and stable performance.

• 🌿 Living Nature: Beautiful, gentle swaying effects for leaves, grass, tall grass, ferns, and all flowers.

• 💥 Dynamic Particles: Block-breaking and swimming particles have a stylized wobble effect.

• ✨ Optimized Performance: High-precision math ensures no unnecessary lag during fast movement or combat.

• 🌙 Atmospheric Nights: Enhanced moonlight with a cool blue tint to make your nights look magical, not just dark.

• ☁️ Vanilla-Friendly: Keeps Minecraft’s iconic square cloud aesthetic while ensuring they stay bright at night.

• ⭕ Corrected Skies: Proper moon and sun rendering—no more half-cut textures or strange clipping.

• 🔧 Stable Mechanics: Specifically designed not to affect other foliages and elements of the game.

💻 System Requirements:

Because this shader is designed for performance, it is very lightweight.

Graphics Card: Any GPU that supports OpenGL 3.3 or higher. Shader Loader: Requires or OptiFine. (Iris is highly recommended for best performance). Memory: No additional RAM requirements beyond what standard Minecraft uses.

📦 Installation

1. Download the .zip file from the "Versions" tab.
2. Locate your Minecraft instance folder (.minecraft).
3. Open the shaderpacks folder.
4. Drag and drop the downloaded .zip file into this folder.
5. Launch Minecraft, go to Options > Video Settings > Shader Packs, and select minecraft-shader-template 0.1.0-shaderpack file.

Make sure your zip file is structured correctly so the game can detect it.