Minecraft Poggy's Luminous Dreams pack: Features, how to use, and more

The Minecraft Poggy's Luminous Dreams pack is a unique texture pack that captures real-life environmental lighting and transforms your vanilla Bedrock world into a universe with stunning visuals. It allows you to get shader-like effects as seen in Java edition without the need to install additional mods.

Here's all you need to know about Minecraft Poggy's Luminous Dreams pack and how you can install it easily.

How to download and install Minecraft Poggy's Luminous Dreams pack

Make sure all experimental features are turned on before you open a world with Minecraft Poggy's Luminous Dreams pack (Image via Mojang Studios/xxpoggyislitxx)

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The Minecraft Poggy's Luminous Dreams pack is available for only the Bedrock edition. Currently, this pack works exclusively on Preview builds of the game since it needs Renderdragon, a feature exclusively available in that mode.

To use this pack, you will need to have Minecraft Preview installed on your device. Once done, here's how you can go about installing the installing Poggy's Luminous Dreams pack:

Download the Poggy's Luminous Dreams pack.
Once downloaded, locate the Poggy'sLum-0.7.3.mcpack from your download directory.
Right-click on the pack and select Open With.
Next, choose Minecraft Preview and wait for the pack to get imported. You will get a notification after it is successfully completed.
Next, create a new world and head down to the Resource Packs tab.
In the available tab, click on the Activate button next to Poggy's Luminous Dreams.
Next, head to the Experiments tab and enable all the features. You will get a warning — simply select Turn on Experiments and proceed. This is an important step since the pack needs Renderdragon to function. However, it is recommended that you toggle all the experimental features to ON.
Now, adjust additional settings like game mode, behavior packs, etc (optional).
Once done, create your world and you will be able to enjoy the stunning visuals of the Poggy's Luminous Dreams pack.

Note: It takes a while for the pack to load. It is recommended you do not close the game while the files load. Additionally, you can head to the Settings tab and modify the parameters of the pack under the Luminous Dreams Options tab. Head to the Deferred Technical Preview option within the tab and make your necessary adjustments like resolution, shadow quality, and more.

Additionally, if you feel like your world is too dark/too bright, it is recommended to click the adjust brightness button under Deferred Graphics options. Adjust the slider till you can see the creepers on the two blocks from the right.

Ensure the creeper in the block on the left is barely visible. This calibration is necessary for the best experience of Minecraft Poggy's Luminous Dreams pack.

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Features of Minecraft Poggy's Luminous Dreams pack

Create stunning visuals in-game using Minecraft Poggy's Luminous Dreams pack (Image via Mojang Studios/xxpoggyislitxx)

Poggy's Luminous Dreams pack is a Deferred Graphics Pack that utilizes the Deferred Rendering technology to transform the vanilla world and give it stunning visuals, similar to shaders like Iris Shaders and Optifine in Java edition.

The pack features custom lighting and textures for mobs, particles, and the UI to create a high-definition world with real-life environmental lighting. It is a graphics-intensive pack that uses your graphics card's capabilities to create realistic lighting and shading effects and can massively improve performance.

Additionally, the pack features intricate customization options that allow you to tweak features such as resolution, shadow quality, volumetric fog, and more. This essentially allows both low-end and high-end devices to utilize the pack to its extent without stuttering or being bottlenecked.

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What is Deferred Graphics in texture packs?

Minecraft Poggy's Luminous Dreams pack uses Deferred Rendering to create stunning visuals without the help of mods (Image via Mojang Studios/XxPoggyisLitxX)

Deferred Graphics Packs are essentially texture packs that utilize the Deferred Rendering technology mentioned above. It is essentially a 3D computer graphics technique that computes the lighting for a particular scene after the geometry has been rendered.

Deferred rendering splits lighting calculations into multiple screen-sized buffers, known as the G-buffer. The first phase of deferred rendering renders the scene's geometry into the G-buffer, which contains information like positions, normals, and materials.

It can reduce the complexity of lighting calculations and only calculates visible pixels. It also makes it easier to implement post effects like Bloom, SSR, and SSAO, as seen in Minecraft Poggy's Luminous Dreams pack.

The Deferred rendering technique requires a compatible graphics card with Multiple Render Targets (MRT), Shader Model 3.0 or later, and additional support for Depth render textures. Most PC graphics cards made after 2006 support deferred rendering, allowing you to enjoy the stunning visuals of Minecraft Poggy's Luminous Dreams pack.

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Edited by Sijo Samuel Paul