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by **JacobF** » Thu Mar 15, 2012 15:22

I always wanted colored light in minetest so I decided to get on and code it to see how it fared.

The Good
It looks great and adds 1000x to the mood.

The Bad
3x more work for the server causing noticeable lag.
Minetest is totally made for singe color light and some situations don't work right.

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MWZxyCsbv4
Try it out: https://github.com/Queatz/minetest/tree/colored_light (edit: link is dead, see this)

by **sfan5** » Thu Mar 15, 2012 15:33

Nice!

by **redcrab** » Thu Mar 15, 2012 15:42

... Wow very nice !

by **Death Dealer** » Thu Mar 15, 2012 15:57

i like it:D but i think you should make a torch mod to combine al the things your placing of that color. like add cactus to torch to make green torch

by **Jordach** » Thu Mar 15, 2012 16:05

Tat's rather nice.

by **Gatharoth** » Thu Mar 15, 2012 16:11

I like it, but I don't think all those things you placed should emit light. Lava and torch are okay because they are meant to emit light. A cactus is not.

by **sfan5** » Thu Mar 15, 2012 16:39

Gatharoth wrote:I like it, but I don't think all those things you placed should emit light. Lava and torch are okay because they are meant to emit light. A cactus is not.

I think it's just for Testing

by **Gatharoth** » Thu Mar 15, 2012 18:46

sfan5 wrote:
Gatharoth wrote:I like it, but I don't think all those things you placed should emit light. Lava and torch are okay because they are meant to emit light. A cactus is not.

I think it's just for Testing

99.99999999999999999999999999999999% sure it is, but just saying. >.<

by **JacobF** » Thu Mar 15, 2012 18:49

It is. ;)

by **sdzen** » Thu Mar 15, 2012 19:26

quite nice

by **TheWesleyOne** » Thu May 10, 2012 21:08

Do you plan on updating to the latest rev.?

by **JacobF** » Thu May 10, 2012 22:37

Hmm seems to be so different now. I tried merging but there's a multitude of conflicts and c55 doesn't even want it so probably not unless it has some type of future.

by **TheWesleyOne** » Thu May 10, 2012 22:53

I liked it a lot, and was hoping to merge it in to mine, and use it to improve my fork

by **JacobF** » Fri May 11, 2012 00:08

Alright, that summons a worth. Give me a few hours and it'll be up to date.

by **TheWesleyOne** » Fri May 11, 2012 00:30

Thank you for your efforts.

by **JacobF** » Fri May 11, 2012 03:33

Hmm, so much has changed, I'll have to pick it up in the morning.

by **MirceaKitsune** » Sat Dec 14, 2013 13:19

I haven't tried the code yet, but 100% approve of adding colored lights! I'm not sure if this can be done before hardware lighting via shaders is (also a must), but it would be fantastic if it could. I hope the feature will reach a state where it can be included into Minetest.

by **xyz** » Sun Dec 15, 2013 01:46

Here's the patch http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=6dXnVvbB (links in the first post are dead) if anyone is interested.

by **Inocudom** » Wed Jan 01, 2014 21:40

I have not forgotten about colored lights, and I still feel that they can add a new sense of beauty to Minetest. Terasology has them...

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