[1.8] Light

[Sakuya is my waifu]

so can anyone tell me how light is "created" in minecraft?

how does world get illuminated, cause its not sun ofc ._.

and is it possible to achieve complete darkness?

 

And Notch said, "Let there be light," and there was light. or was it?

[shadowfacts]

TheGreyGhost has a really good blog post explaining how lighting works in Minecraft.

[Sakuya is my waifu]

Nice...

soo if i dig around and change color of lightmap texture i can create colored lights right?

[shadowfacts]

Colored lights requires a huge amount of hacky shit, just because that's not how the engine was originally built. If you are really intent on doing colored lighting, there is a mod[/url[ which adds this and has an API that you can use.

[Draco18s]

Its super mega hacky.

[Sakuya is my waifu]

So why don't create a new lightmap instead of resizing it? idk spent all night searching for a better solution ._.

what i'm trying to create is a prism, so when light beam of beacon (or something like that) passes through it refracts and shines with colors of spectre.

[Sakuya is my waifu]

and that mod looks absolutely amazing ; - ; time to give up on my dreams ｡：ﾟ(｡ﾉω＼｡)ﾟ･｡

[ItsAMysteriousYT]

Colored lights requires a huge amount of hacky shit, just because that's not how the engine was originally built. If you are really intent on doing colored lighting, there is a mod[/url[ which adds this and has an API that you can use.

 

Am i able to create moving lights with that?

[Ernio]

Can't you just look into code?

 

What you need is atomicstryker's DynamicLights mod which has configuration that allows you to make moving lights.

DL is the ONLY (popular) properly written mod that does it. Pure ASM magic - still - very resource-eating.

Note: It's client side only.