# GaelQuinta/minecraft-metal-shaders

> Open-source shader pack for Minecraft Java that renders natively in Metal on Apple Silicon Macs, adding shadows, volumetric clouds, god rays, reflective water, and HDR without going through OpenGL.

- Magnitude: 0.5 out of 10 — Steady
- Stars: 78 total · +1 star measured 2026-10-18, 00:29–11:54 UTC, ≈ 2 by evening
- Star trust: star growth looks organic
- Category: Games & graphics · Language: Java · License: Apache-2.0 · Created: 2026-10-12 · Last push: 2026-10-17
- GitHub: https://github.com/GaelQuinta/minecraft-metal-shaders · Page: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/GaelQuinta/minecraft-metal-shaders

## Useful for

- Enable HDR and reflective water on an M-series Mac to improve Minecraft visuals
- Compare FPS across performance, balanced, quality, and ultra presets via the F3 overlay
- Tune 120 shader settings live from the pause-menu Shaders page

## Why it’s here

- Star-counter measurements on 2026-10-18 (UTC), 00:29–11:54: 77 → 78 stars (+1). This is the change over that interval.
- Estimated end-of-day forecast: about +2 stars, using observed gains and the previous day.
- The repository is 6 days old and already has 78 stars. With less than two weeks of history, there's no usual pace to compare the spike against yet.

## Star trust

Star growth looks organic.

Star-trust labels are heuristics based on the repository’s behavior, not a check of every stargazer.

## Numbers

- Forks: 2
- Issues and pull requests: 10
- Watchers: 2
- Average over the last week: 9 per day
- Usual pace: too little history (under two weeks)
- Stars in the last hour (measured): 0
- Latest release: v1.2.3-alpha (2026-10-17)

## Stars per day, last 7 days (oldest → newest, today is partial)

2026-10-12 … 2026-10-18: 35, 9, 5, 5, 7, 1, 1

## Magnitude by day, last 2 days

10-17 1.3, 10-18 0.6

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Magnitude (0–10) measures how fast and how unusually interest in a repository is growing right now. It is not a quality score.
Days are UTC. “So far today” is a fact; “expected by the end of the day” is a forecast.
Summaries and use cases are written by an LLM (DeepSeek V4.1 Flash) from the README and may be inaccurate: verify specific claims (benchmarks, speed, hardware) in the repository itself.
Data as of 2026-10-18 11:55 UTC, updated every 30 minutes.