{"id":96438,"date":"2026-06-05T15:36:57","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T12:36:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vpesports.com\/minecraft\/mods\/luminance\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T15:36:57","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T12:36:57","slug":"luminance","status":"publish","type":"mod","link":"https:\/\/vpesports.com\/minecraft\/mods\/luminance\/","title":{"rendered":"Luminance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>![Luminance](https:\/\/raw.githubusercontent.com\/mclegoman\/luminance\/refs\/heads\/development-1.21\/assets\/logo\/luminance.png)<br \/>\n## About<br \/>\nLuminance is a library mod that is primarily designed to help other mods with shaders.<\/p>\n<p>**As a user, you should only need to install this if a mod requires it.**  <\/p>\n<p># Features<br \/>\n&#8211; **Adds Dynamic Shader Uniforms**<br \/>\n  &#8211; These let post-processing shaders have more information about what&#8217;s happening in-game.<br \/>\n  &#8211; Luminance comes with a bunch of these by default, but you can add your own too!<br \/>\n&#8211; **Adds shaders that have been used in previous minecraft versions.**<br \/>\n  &#8211; _Requires Perspective or Souper Secret Settings._<br \/>\n  &#8211; Luminance takes care of rendering shaders, so you don&#8217;t have to!<br \/>\n  &#8211; You can check if Iris Shaders are enabled using Luminance.<br \/>\n    &#8211; This means you don&#8217;t have to have Iris added to your development environment!<br \/>\n  &#8211; You can replace your ModMenu icon using Luminance!<br \/>\n    &#8211; Make your mod icon change depending on the time of year, or via a config option, anything&#8217;s possible!  <\/p>\n<p>## Dependencies<br \/>\n&#8211; Fabric API or Quilted Fabric API (QFAPI)<br \/>\n    &#8211; `fabric-resource-loader-v0`<br \/>\n    &#8211; `fabric-key-binding-api-v1`<br \/>\n    &#8211; `fabric-lifecycle-events-v1`<br \/>\n&#8211; Java 21 or later.<br \/>\n  &#8211; Built with the Microsoft build of OpenJDK 21.0.2.<\/p>\n<p>## How to add Luminance to your mod:<br \/>\n1. Add the following lines to the repository section of your build.gradle:<br \/>\n&#8220;`<br \/>\nexclusiveContent {<br \/>\n\t\tforRepository {<br \/>\n\t\t\tmaven {<br \/>\n\t\t\t\tname = &#8220;Modrinth&#8221;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\turl = &#8220;https:\/\/api.modrinth.com\/maven&#8221;<br \/>\n\t\t\t}<br \/>\n\t\t}<br \/>\n\t\tfilter {<br \/>\n\t\t\tincludeGroup &#8220;maven.modrinth&#8221;<br \/>\n\t\t}<br \/>\n\t}<br \/>\n&#8220;`<br \/>\n2. Add the following line to the dependencies section of your build.gradle:<br \/>\n&#8220;`<br \/>\ninclude(modImplementation &#8220;maven.modrinth:luminance:${project.luminance}&#8221;)<br \/>\n&#8220;`<br \/>\n3. Add the following line to your gradle.properties:<br \/>\n   1. Replace 1.0.0-rc.1+1.21.4-fabric with the latest version of Luminance!<br \/>\n      1. This can be found on the version page on Modrinth.<br \/>\n&#8220;`<br \/>\nluminance = 1.0.0-release.1+1.21.4-fabric<br \/>\n#luminance = 1.0.0-release.1+1.21.4-quilt<br \/>\n&#8220;`<br \/>\n4. 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