[Mod] Lights+ [12112013] [lightsplus]

[LionsDen]

It's an optical illusion and possibly the way minetest shades things. Here is a photo from above.



And here is a side by side shot.



From the above shot, we can see that they put out the same amount of light. From the side by side, we can see that they are shaded lightly on the sides. This makes them darker looking, especially the large block because there is more surface on the sides to make it noticable. I tried with a completely white (255,255,255) color and the shades are still there. If you want the complete white texture, it is here --> <--. Just right click it and save image as and save it with the name lightsplus_light.png in your minetest\textures\all folder and it will override the original texture. Or you could just save it in your minetest\mods\newlights\textures folder and overwrite the original texture. But it wont help you much.

[qwrwed]

Reuploaded to Mediafire with gold lights.

[nikminers]

Awesome. Willl the new version support the old? Just don't feel like replacing every light in my cities, gets annoying after the first few skyscrapers.

[LionsDen]

Awesome. Willl the new version support the old? Just don't feel like replacing every light in my cities, gets annoying after the first few skyscrapers.

Not really, the old version is named lightsplus, the new version is newlights. I changed mine just in case he/she did re-enable the download. I didn't want them to conflict. Plus he/she has other items in the newer version and now has gold lights. I probably wont be continuing mine because I just did mine so that people could have some version of this. If there is a way to change the lights globally from one version to the other, I don't know it yet. I'm still learning the modding by trying things out with other peoples mods. Sorry about that. If I ever find out how to do the replace object, I will create something to do it and put out a link.

[Dan Duncombe]

I think you can do this thing called an alias which allows one type of node to be changed for another or something like that.

[webdesigner97]

Nice mod, Q! Added to the list of mods for my server (coming soon) :)

[qwrwed]

Thanks, webdesigner :)
LionsDen, I have added your lights to the mod and aliased them (any lights from your modification will be changed to the lights in this mod which are exactly the same apart from the name). By the way, so you don't have to keep using he/she, I'm a he.

[LionsDen]

Thanks, webdesigner :)
LionsDen, I have added your lights to the mod and aliased them (any lights from your modification will be changed to the lights in this mod which are exactly the same apart from the name). By the way, so you don't have to keep using he/she, I'm a he.

Thanks, I had seen the alias but my playing with it didn't seem to do anything and I hadn't needed it yet so I hadn't tried any searches about it yet.

I do have to say my slab lights look slightly different and work slightly different from yours. I made them thinner because I didn't like the looks of the half height slab. I also removed the inverted slab because my slab will properly hang upside down. If you want to use any of my code, feel free. :)

[qwrwed]

I have - I had to in order to alias them. It might seem like it doesn't do anything, but it just means that if you switch from newlights to lightsplus, there won't be any unknown blocks and they will work exactly the same.
(I also added it because I liked the idea/appearance and it is more convenient than having to craft one of the 3 slabs that were in my mod. I would change mine to the same style but I would have to change 3 different nodes into one while still keeping them facing the same direction, which I don't know how to do.)
(EDIT: I did change them to the same style.)

License is WTFPL, textures are by VanessaE and paramat, code for flat lights is by LionsDen.

[qwrwed]

Uploaded to Github

[qwrwed]

Big update: code is almost completely rewritten to be more efficient thanks to Kaeza. There are now only two types of slab light (normal and gold) which act like Stairs+ slabs when you place them, but this might make already existing slab/flat lights lose their orientation. I have kept the old version in case anyone wants to keep their lights as they are.

[Minearriatest]

Nice mod, I like the fact you included some nodes which are not just 1x1x1 but more are more of a complex shape(1x1x0.5 ect...)

[specopsbarton]

Hey, this is really nice mod! I run it at my server, ver 4.9 but there is a problem.
Once I put a white light node, it doesn't disappear from inventory or not getting substracted
from inventory...I can have unlimited Lights :/
Any ideas?

[qwrwed]

Thanks!
Are you using creative mode?
And which type of white light?

EDIT: I see what you mean; I will look into this when I have the time.

[qwrwed]

Hey, this is really nice mod! I run it at my server, ver 4.9 but there is a problem.
Once I put a white light node, it doesn't disappear from inventory or not getting substracted
from inventory...I can have unlimited Lights :/
Any ideas?

Fixed. Thanks for notifying me of this bug.

[specopsbarton]

No problem ;)

[Mihobre]

this is one of my favorite mods ever. it makes lighting a hundred times easier. it's a fucking BLESSING. i've been using this for years and I never got to thank you. so thank you :3 wow im so cheesy