Luminia Shaders FAQ

Open Options, go to Video Settings, then Shader Packs, and select Luminia Shaders from the list. Apply it and return to your world. If you see no Shader Packs button, your shader loader isn't running, because Luminia is a shader pack and needs one to load.

No. Shaders are purely visual and run only on your own client, so the server never needs them. You can use Luminia on any multiplayer server, and other players won't see your shader effects unless they run it themselves.

Luminia gives light-emitting blocks such as torches and lanterns their own colors, and that colored light spreads onto nearby walls and floors. You can mix different light blocks in a build to create different moods in different rooms.

Light bounces off blocks instead of only lighting the spot it touches. A lit room spills a soft glow into the corridor beside it, and bright surfaces brighten their surroundings. This makes interiors look more natural than vanilla's flat light levels.

Luminia lights the world from real light sources and bounced light, so spaces without light blocks or sunlight stay genuinely dark. Place light sources where you need them. If it's still too dark for comfort, raise the brightness or exposure-related settings in the shader's options menu.

Path tracing and realistic shadows are demanding, so start by lowering your render distance. Then open the shader's settings and reduce shadow and lighting quality. Turning down the heavier lighting effects usually gives the biggest gain.

It's an edit of Bliss Shader, so it will feel familiar to Bliss users. It adds features and ideas taken from Eclipse Shader, Solas, Shrimple, and Rethinking Voxels, with colored and path-traced lighting as the headline additions.

Luminia works on its own, so Vitrail isn't required to use it. Luminia is verified to work with Vitrail, so if you run both, blocks and light setups from Vitrail should display correctly under the shader.

Yes. Luminia casts realistic shadows under buildings, foliage, and mobs. If shadows look blocky or flicker, raise the shadow quality in the shader settings, but expect some FPS cost.

Go back to Video Settings, then Shader Packs, and check that Luminia is actually highlighted and applied rather than just hovered. Then reload the world. If the shader menu reports an error, your shader loader may be missing or another mod may be conflicting with it.