Soartex Fanver - Minecraft 1.7.5

Soartex Fanver is a beautiful modern Minecraft resource pack that includes high-resolution smooth textures. This texture-pack also supports a large number of mods so that mods don't look odd when used with this texturepack. Soartex Fanver also has a patching utility that allows you to update the resource pack and install modded textures.

Link to official website: http://tinyurl.com/getsoartex

Sonic Ether's Unbelievable Shaders - Minecraft 1.7

Sonic Ether's Unbelievable Shaders (aka SEUS) is a shader pack for Minecraft that allows for more realistic lighting. There are now better shadows, better looking water, better looking skies and overall a better looking game. This shaderpack runs in the GLSL shader mod which allows for custom shaders to run in Minecraft.

Downloads:

Download SEUS Standard for Minecraft 1.7.x

Download SEUS Ultra for Minecraft 1.7.x

Download SEUS Ultra DOF for Minecraft 1.7.x

Download SEUS Ultra Motion Blur for Minecraft 1.7.x

 

Installation instructions and notes:

SEUS requires that GLSL be installed in order to work correctly.
Get GLSL Shaders Mod

Installation instructions:
1. Navigate to your .minecraft folder. If you don't know how, read our guide on how to navigate to the .minecraft folder.
2. Create a new folder called shaderpacks (without capital letters) if it doesn't currently exist.
3. Download the shaderpack.
4. The put the shaderpack in the shaderpacks folder. Valid shaderpacks must be either an uncompressed folder or a ZIP file. To enable the shader, launch Minecraft, go to Options > Shaders, and select your desired shader pack. (Note that valid shaderpacks include .fsh and .vsh files. These files tell your GPU what to do during runtime.)
6. Now, in Options > Shaders, enable "tweakBlockDamage", and disable "CloudShadow".
7. Then, in Options > Shaders, make sure that "OldLighting" is off.

This mod currently isn't available for the latest version of Minecraft. You will have to be running 1.7.5 to run it. If you need to downgrade, read our guide on changing the version of Minecraft.

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Sphax Pure BDcraft - Minecraft 1.7.5

Sphax Pure BDcraft is a fun resource pack for Minecraft that is designed to look cartoon like. BDcraft is used by many popular YouTubers such as the Yogscast. The textures in BDcraft are high resolution and there is support for a wide selection of mods. BDcraft it released in versions ranging from x64 - x512. Also, it supports Minecraft PE and various other games as well as the desktop version of Minecraft.

Latest supported Minecraft version: 1.7.x
Link to official site: http://tinyurl.com/getsphaxpurebdcraft