Do You Need Cool Cat Lib Canvas Mod? What It Does and Where It Goes

If you never chose this mod yourself, another mod in your pack most likely required it. Cool Cat Lib Canvas Mod is a library. It adds no items or blocks of its own. Instead, it supplies visual tools that other mods use to draw their effects and menus.

What it actually does in your game

When a mod you play relies on it, Canvas handles things like:

• Screen effects layered over the world, such as blur, vignette, desaturation, chromatic aberration, wobble, heartbeat and film grain. These fade in and out smoothly.
• Custom skies made from cubemaps, gradients, floating sprites such as planets or moons, and panoramas, blended into the vanilla sky.
• Menu pieces such as sliding panels, scroll lists, draggable windows, pan-and-zoom views, and styled text with rainbow, gradient, outlined or glowing lettering.

Requirements and placement

1. It needs CoolCatLib: Core. Canvas extends Core, so put both in your mods folder.

2. Install it on your client. All of the rendering happens on your screen, so the game you play on needs it.

3. Servers: Effects can be triggered from server commands. If a server mod uses Canvas, follow that mod's instructions about installing it on the server as well.

When it is missing

If a mod that depends on Canvas or Core cannot find them, your mod loader will usually stop the game at launch and list the missing dependency. Add the named library to the mods folder and launch again.