By Quintin Smith on May 19th, 2011 at 4:04 pm.
Any mod with the stipulation “WARNING: May make you puke” has got to be worth posting, right? Right. Get ready to see something pretty amazing. Thanks to RPS reader Ross “Big Bangus” Angus for the tip.
The image above and the phenomenal video you can watch below aren’t really the result of a mod, but rather what happens if you combine both this GLSL Shaders mod with this custom shader, which you install by- quoting the video’s creator directly here- “copying it to a txt file then rename the txt to “base.vsh”, then making sure to backup your existing base.vsh, dragging it into the shaders folder located inside your minecraft.jar (once the GLSL shaders mod is installed of course)”.
Anyway, enough chatter. Take a look for yourself.
19/05/2011 at 16:07 Lewie Procter says:
It’s like minecraft on acid!
19/05/2011 at 16:10 trjp says:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tF2fN4MmMAY
19/05/2011 at 16:11 Frapple says:
That’s quite interesting. That’s quite interesting. That’s quite interesting. That’s quite interesting.
19/05/2011 at 16:25 TheFlyingWooly says:
For hours and hours and hours…
19/05/2011 at 16:39 BAReFOOt says:
Shouldn’t there also be weird colors and creepers crawling in the walls?
Not very much acidy.
But I now finally “got” dubstep! Of course it required acid. How could I not have realized this??
19/05/2011 at 16:08 yurusei says:
Looks like one of my dreams.
19/05/2011 at 16:08 Grinterloper says:
It’s…..beautiful……
19/05/2011 at 16:08 Forceflow says:
Fun with geometric shading. I bet you could do a lot of other funky stuff when using other functions than sin/cos :)
19/05/2011 at 16:58 Gnoupi says:
But at least with sin/cos it remains “organically coherent”, only wavy and nausea-inducing.
I guess that more crazy function would possibly break the link you make between the actual 3D world and the image you see on screen, and be in the end more “kaleidoscope” than “distorted world”, if you know what I mean.
Not sure I’m very clear, but I was watching this on fullscreen, so I doubt of my primary cognitive functions.
19/05/2011 at 16:08 rebb says:
Faaar out, maaaaan.
20/05/2011 at 07:59 Evil Timmy says:
Oh wow maaan…i think these things aaarrrrreeeee
finally
k i c k i n g i nnnnnn
*pukes out a sparkling rainbow, then rides it out of the scene like a putrescent scintillating magic carpet*
20/05/2011 at 13:19 Pinkables says:
That’s it. I HAVE to form a band and call it Putrescent Scintillating Magic Carpet.
19/05/2011 at 16:09 Pnikosis says:
Oh, it looks completely aweso…bwaarrggllllggghhhh… ahem, pfeeww… (cleaning my mouth with the sleeve)
19/05/2011 at 16:13 Quintin Smith says:
Yeah, I was doing OK until I fullscreened it.
19/05/2011 at 18:57 Stuart Walton says:
You haven’t really tried it until you’ve turned on the 3D anaglyph mode.
19/05/2011 at 21:18 MiniMatt says:
Related barf note – anyone else really *REALLY* want to play Minecraft (and bought it yonks back before it was cool and everything) but gets that same feeling when playing regular vanilla Minecraft?
Dunno if it’s the low res or the field of view or what but regular FPS corridor shooters are fine for me, but 10 minutes in my subterranean cobblestone mine and I’m ready to heave.
19/05/2011 at 23:29 Lack_26 says:
@MiniMatt, I have to play it in the small window, full-screen minecraft just ‘feels’ wrong and makes my stomach turn. My guess would be that it’s related to the FOV.
19/05/2011 at 16:09 Frapple says:
It’s…beautiful.
Edit: Damn, beaten like a ginger step child.
19/05/2011 at 16:09 _Jackalope_ says:
I don’t understand, this is just a video of me playing Minecraft.
20/05/2011 at 07:26 Rich says:
I thought it was just a video of someone walking around Warwick Castle. Doesn’t the world do that wavy thing for everyone?
19/05/2011 at 16:09 Doesntmeananything says:
That shader needs to be implemented into every ‘nightmare’ level of every game from now on.
19/05/2011 at 16:10 DeanLearner says:
Oh dear, I actually don’t feel great :S
19/05/2011 at 16:13 P4p3Rc1iP says:
Wow!
19/05/2011 at 16:13 john_silence says:
A Minecraft mirage of harrowing beauty.
Coated in vomit.
19/05/2011 at 16:14 Gravy says:
Minecraft pfft , I get a error when i try and login saying to the effect that i haven’t bought the game, i did buy it last sept – after several emails months ago i’ve had no response at all.
- 1 Mohjong
19/05/2011 at 16:34 blorg.beard says:
Gravy, there’s a new support page now, maybe you should have another go: http://mojang.com/2011/05/19/support-and-new-payment-options/
19/05/2011 at 16:14 tomeoftom says:
So boss.
19/05/2011 at 16:14 blankname says:
Finally we can perfectly recreate the Forest Temple from Ocarina of Time in Minecraft.
19/05/2011 at 16:16 Drake Sigar says:
Jeff Bridges would be proud.
19/05/2011 at 16:17 Donjonson says:
Awesome :) I can see myself striding the landscape with giant rubbery legs grinning at everything and successfully communing with nature while the world warps….. drugs are good. Drugs are good.
19/05/2011 at 16:19 Teddy Leach says:
What is this I don’t even.
19/05/2011 at 16:19 McDan says:
…I can’t see straight anymore
19/05/2011 at 16:19 Ovno says:
HHHHUUUUUEEEEEEYYYYYY!!!!!
Why oh god why….
Also ace!
19/05/2011 at 16:22 Hodge says:
That black sheep is totally getting down.
19/05/2011 at 16:24 machinaexdeus says:
Drunk mode enabled!
This is how the world moves when I lie down after a few drinks, *manly cough* more than a few.
19/05/2011 at 16:28 olemars says:
Hmmm. I have a big screen and anaglyphic glasses within reach.
I wonder…
19/05/2011 at 17:23 westyfield says:
Do it!
19/05/2011 at 16:29 JellyfishGreen says:
Was this from eating the red spotty mushrooms or the little brown ones?
19/05/2011 at 16:32 Tinus says:
When I envision vague designs for a game featuring Lovecraft’s non-euclidian geometry, this is kinda what it looks like. More of this, please!
19/05/2011 at 16:32 Jake says:
Can this sort of thing be done to other games? Mirror’s Edge, Portal, Just Cause 2 or Amnesia for example.
19/05/2011 at 16:34 Twilightx says:
this is the first time a video game gave me nausea. Seriously, even Descent wasn’t this succesful :)
19/05/2011 at 16:37 El_MUERkO says:
Best thing about this is the discovery (by me) of Benji, http://soundcloud.com/ibenjidub
All kinds of awesome!!!
19/05/2011 at 17:00 Delusibeta says:
For the record, the track name is “Boneless”.
19/05/2011 at 16:40 Holysheep says:
Can I play this mod while I’m on acid? Can I go deeper?
19/05/2011 at 16:59 PanzerVaughn says:
Wouldn’t that just make it look normal?
19/05/2011 at 16:45 Mashakosha says:
So, who else saw the title image and thought “Inception”?
19/05/2011 at 17:13 Fringe says:
I watched the video (as much as I could stomach) and thought of Inception, definitely.
It would be okay if it was enabled for brief periods but constant waveyness is TOO MUCH
BLEEEURRRRGGGGHHHH!
19/05/2011 at 20:01 Phyla says:
Just make sure to mute the right video: http://goo.gl/fzf2j
19/05/2011 at 21:16 andrewdoull says:
Also: http://inception.davepedu.com/
19/05/2011 at 16:59 Nim says:
I may need to sit down.
19/05/2011 at 17:46 yurusei says:
and watch some nyancat.
19/05/2011 at 17:04 Cpl Trim says:
More of this for all games!
Wasn’t there a level in Thief 1 that was a lot like this?
19/05/2011 at 17:05 Vitamin Powered says:
Love the music matches the late 90s style techno video clip stylings.
19/05/2011 at 17:33 hjd_uk says:
Anyone else thinking of Inception? EDIT : TL’DR Ninja’d
19/05/2011 at 17:52 JKjoker says:
i thought the same thing before reading the title, but then that movie was on acid too
19/05/2011 at 17:45 Stitched says:
Planescape’s Sigil. Make it happen.
19/05/2011 at 17:52 Chizu says:
I’d seen this done before, in some little vid, again with dubstep or somesuch music over it.
:v
Its neat, but then melts your brain ingame.
19/05/2011 at 17:59 sassy says:
I hate 3D but damn do I wish I could have seen this video in it.
19/05/2011 at 18:45 alilsneaky says:
I was just about the post the 3d thing.
This on a 3d projector..
Better keep a bucket ready.
19/05/2011 at 18:05 BunnyPuncher says:
Can we have this mod on Aceof Spades? :D
19/05/2011 at 18:38 shaydeeadi says:
Imagine building with that mod on, urgh.
19/05/2011 at 19:06 stele says:
I also feel sick – I can’t tell if it’s from the wavy effect or that song.
19/05/2011 at 19:08 Tei says:
I did a mod that cause vomit and instan brain hurt once.
It was a FPS karate game in first person. Seems the FPS conventions “the mouse control the camera” is not a convention that you can trown away easy… . I did so the player was able to do a “rotating kicking” making the camera rotating with the player… so wen you see another player doing the rotating kick, his camera is actually rotating.
I deleted the files gl_cmd.c, gl_cmd.h , and I have never done something like this again.
19/05/2011 at 19:28 Quintin Smith says:
Reminds me of that version of The Opera mod for Half-Life which spun the camera around 360 degrees when you did a forward roll or somersault. Zero to nausea in six seconds.
19/05/2011 at 20:43 rapchee says:
ooh i remember the opera mod :D it was very immersive
19/05/2011 at 19:50 Nero says:
Whoa @_@
19/05/2011 at 20:08 gwathdring says:
Somebody touched fuzzy.
20/05/2011 at 02:07 Fiatil says:
Congratulations sir, you win.
19/05/2011 at 20:46 rapchee says:
huh. this made me want a mod where the world looks like a globe. or perhaps is a globe. any wise person know about something like this?
19/05/2011 at 20:49 Dana says:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrcQHF9PK9k
19/05/2011 at 20:47 Dana says:
I tried acid once and all it did was burn my tongue.
19/05/2011 at 21:14 JohnnyMaverik says:
Reminds me more of being very, very drunk than on acid.
19/05/2011 at 22:21 Nimic says:
Okay, I am still a little bit confused, and I saw this a few minutes ago.
I think this video might have made me insane.
19/05/2011 at 22:57 deadpan says:
Yeah, yeah, just let me know when it’s a playable game mode in Team Fortress 2.
19/05/2011 at 23:57 Zelius says:
Something less trippy: which texture pack is this?
20/05/2011 at 05:27 nemryn says:
I too would like to know this.
20/05/2011 at 15:05 Urthman says:
That’s JohnSmith’s 32×32 texture pack:
http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/26727-johnsmith-texture-pack-v72-32×32-15-with-customizer/
You’ll want to use the (currently very solid and stable) high-res texture mod:
http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/232701-update-51bettergrass-mcpatcher-hd-fix-201/
20/05/2011 at 17:22 Zelius says:
Cheers Urthman!
20/05/2011 at 00:08 FLBR says:
As Quintin said, phenomenal.
I’d really like to play Doom with this mod! Someone make it happen please!
20/05/2011 at 01:08 GoliathBro says:
Oh why, oh why, oh why, oh why, of my fucking god WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY
WHY WHY isn’t there more shit like this going in in video games?
Fuck.
20/05/2011 at 01:16 Lukey__b says:
I’ve been to that club. There were more sheep when I went though.
20/05/2011 at 02:07 nullward says:
Anyone remember the old Batman: TAS episode with the villain Vertigo and his balance-distortion eye thingy? Now I know what it’s like to be on the receiving end.
20/05/2011 at 03:15 DOLBYdigital says:
I now want to see a game world that actually acts like its floating on top of waves like this. Sure this may have been extreme but just how the landscape was rolling around would be phenomenal if done right. I could see it really influencing the gameplay too even if it was just a simple mario galaxy like platformer. More things like this please :)
20/05/2011 at 04:33 Moonracer says:
wow, my head is still buzzing from watching that. I am so going to try this on my game. I imagine trying to build and fight would be a terrifying experience.
20/05/2011 at 11:26 Baggypants says:
For Gods sake no one tell Jeff Minter about this.
20/05/2011 at 13:21 happybadger94 says:
Can anyone else not get this to work? As soon as I overwrite the bash.vsh (the extreme graphics mod installed just fine. This is the custom shader), the world is entirely stripped of texture and every object is black. I signed up for an acid mod, not a DXM mod :(
22/05/2011 at 16:37 Araxiel says:
Bwong
22/05/2011 at 23:47 AdamK117 says:
Literally the most awesome thing i’ve seen in quite a while.
23/05/2011 at 12:54 Josh W says:
The last bit spun me out until I realised he started flying!