Umsoea Texture Pack for Minecraft 1.14

The Umsoea resource pack reverses the notion of what a texture pack may be. First and foremost, the goal of this pack is to push the capabilities of path-traced shaders to their ultimate extent (particularly, SEUS PTGI, as advised by the developer). Photorealistic textures and normal maps, sophisticated 3D block models, and intersecting textures are used in conjunction with the beautiful SEUS shaders to achieve this. Individual blocks are brought to a degree of realism found nowhere else by Umsoea. However, this restricts its application to extremely particular circumstances.

This texture pack is fundamentally not designed for use in normal Minecraft gameplay – as it selects only a handful of blocks to change, and is very intensive to run. Instead, this texture pack is designed for those who have a passion for graphics and architecture, and who simply want to take beautiful screenshots or enjoy what modern game engines can do. Think of this texture pack as more of an architecture simulator than an addition to normal Minecraft. The pack comes in a free 512x variant, with higher resolution options available on the creator’s Patreon.

All in all, this really isn’t a texture pack suited for most players; but, if you’re someone who loves creating Minecraft cinematic videos or screenshots (and have a computer that can handle it), then this texture pack is the best of the best – and comes highly recommended for its specific use cases.

Umsoea supports Minecraft Java version 1.14, and is intended to be used in combination with Optifine and SEUS PTGI.