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Refined Graphics reworks how the game draws light, shadows, ambient occlusion, reflections, water, weather, the sky and post-processing. It fixes what holds the game’s look back, such as shimmering edges, flat lighting and pop-in, and it wins back frames the game spends for nothing. Every effect has its own switch, and the menu shows what each one costs in frames.

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What it covers

  • Ambient occlusion: Ambient Only, Clarity AO and Tuned AO.
  • Shadows: near and far shadows, crisp edges, contact shadows, grass shadows and cloud shadows.
  • Lighting: lamp glow, light distance, fire flicker, bright bulbs, the flashlight beam and darker nights.
  • Reflections: HDR reflections and reflections by angle.
  • Water: natural and flowing water, soft shores, caustics, rain rings, wind on water, water color and an underwater look.
  • Weather and sky: wet surfaces, snow cover, soft drifts, rain light, lightning, lens droplets, height fog, volumetric light, the moon and the sun disc.
  • Textures and surfaces: sharper texture loading, trilinear filtering, steady highlights, glass in shade and depth on blocks, props, terrain and held items.
  • Trees and plants: fuller foliage, natural wind, living grass, trees that keep their detail further away and forests that reach the horizon.
  • Pop-in: props, trees and vehicles fade in and out instead of appearing suddenly.
  • Your hands: the screen’s ambient occlusion and reflections stay off your arms and gun, and they are lit where they really are.
  • Color: tonemapping, color styles and a colorblind mode.
  • Frames: limits and shortcuts that win back frames, such as the screen shadow limit and half-resolution reflections.
The roadmap shows what is done, what we are working on and what comes later.

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Choose how much you want

Under Options > Refined - Graphics you pick a preset, or switch single effects on and off. Each row shows what the effect costs in frames. Hold the compare key in a world to see the game’s own look next to ours.

Install

Put the mod in the game and turn off EasyAntiCheat.

The options page

Presets, the compare key and the live preview.

Settings reference

Every setting, with its unit, range and default.

Troubleshooting

An effect does nothing, or the picture looks wrong.