Modder ‘nerdgirl_art’ has released an amazing new 1K HD Texture Pack for Minecraft, called Insane Realism. Insane Realism is the spiritual successor to RealismExtreme and promises to transform Minecraft’s blocky visuals.
In total, the modder has overhauled 72 blocks. Moreover, nerdgirl_art has included Normal, Specular, and Height maps for each and every new block.
In order to showcase these new HD textures, the modder released the following screenshots and video.
Now unfortunately this Texture Pack may not be compatible with Minecraft RTX. Instead, nerdgirl_art suggests using Kappa; a shaderpack that aims towards a realistic, but also authentic look.
Kappa Shader introduces numerous modern-day effects to Minecraft. Some of them are dynamic shadows, atmospheric scattering, volumetric clouds, volumetric fog and global illumination.
You can download the Insane Realism HD Texture Pack from here. You can also download Kappa Shader from here. And in case you don’t like this Texture Pack, you can try this other one.
Enjoy!
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But why?
To me it looks interesting. It’s kinda unsettling to see the juxtaposition of extremely simple models and very detailed textures.
Minecraft doesn’t appeal to me and I’ve never played it but I thought the appeal of Minecraft was the blocky visuals.
I’ve seen grown-a$$ people play it. it was kinda cringe. didn’t stay too long
Minecraft has lots of mechanics allowing for creative play and experimentation. Older people take enjoyment in lots of things, gaming for adults doesn’t have to necessarily mean an “adult” title like TLOU or sth
Also Minecraft as a whole is pretty consistent in terms of design – it’s like playing Tetris. A cringe game for an adult to play imo would be Fortnite where literally everything looks silly af lol
pretty reasonable comment.
It is, people like to experiment with mods, though. Especially if they got bored with the vanilla game.
“Insane realism” = no where close to 2 year old, last gen, open world, Unreal Engine 4, game Days Gone’s ground detail.