Our journey into creating a path tracing mod for Minecraft Vanilla version. This mod brings hardware accelerated path tracing with Vulkan C++ native implementation to the java version of the game. Our mod Radiance is a Minecraft mod that completely replaces the vanilla OpenGL renderer with our Vulkan C++ renderer, which supports high performance rendering and hardware-accelerated ray tracing. Due to the variety of C++ usage in the modern industrial rendering pipeline, a seamless integration of a modern industrial rendering module (such as DLSS and FSR) into our Vulkan C++ renderer is thus possible.

Features

  • Hardware-accelerated path tracing
  • Vulkan C++ native implementation
  • Full replacement of vanilla OpenGL renderer
  • Support for high performance rendering
  • Integration ready for DLSS (ready) and FSR (coming soon)

Try it out

Check out our mod Radiance to experience real-time path tracing in Minecraft! The mod is available for download and supports both Windows and Linux platforms.

Available on CurseForge, Modrinth and GitHub.