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JacobF
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Colored Light

by JacobF » Post

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)

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by sfan5 » Post

Nice!
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by redcrab » Post

... Wow very nice !
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by Death Dealer » Post

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
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by Jordach » Post

Tat's rather nice.

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by Gatharoth » Post

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.

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by sfan5 » Post

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
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by Gatharoth » Post

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. >.<

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by JacobF » Post

It is. ;)

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by sdzen » Post

quite nice

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by TheWesleyOne » Post

Do you plan on updating to the latest rev.?
Yes I know the name is not proper, it sounds better this way

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by JacobF » Post

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.

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by TheWesleyOne » Post

I liked it a lot, and was hoping to merge it in to mine, and use it to improve my fork
Yes I know the name is not proper, it sounds better this way

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by JacobF » Post

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

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by TheWesleyOne » Post

Thank you for your efforts.
Yes I know the name is not proper, it sounds better this way

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by JacobF » Post

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

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by MirceaKitsune » Post

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.

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by xyz » Post

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

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by Inocudom » Post

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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