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[kymaster]

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Now Updated for Minecraft 1.5.2!

Report with any suggestions/problems/comments you may have!

Hey everyone, kymaster here!
This is the first mod I have released on these forums.
Hope you like it! I will try to make this topic as informational as possible.
I'd also like to give a shoutout to Vazkii, who gave me a ton of help with Gammabright when I first began modding.
Some of the great features like the adjustable brightness were made possible by him. He also created the logo above! =)

Introduction
Hate being unable to see in the dark? Can't stand it not being day? I thought so. Meet Gammabright.
Gammabright is an advanced brightness and fullbright mod for Minecraft! Originally starting out as a simple fullbright mod, Gammabright has evolved into a multi-purpose mod that can be used for a wide selection of purposes. Casual players, PvPers, YouTubers, - Gammabright is for you.

Further Explained
Gammabright allows you to adjust your in-game brightness, the same brightness controlled under the "Video Settings" screen, to whatever your desired level may be. There's no limit. Minecraft's brightness slider is very restrained and can only adjust the brightness between a set range of 0 to 100%. Gammabright allows you to go way beyond (or below!), to make the perfect adjustment. The lighting of all blocks, mobs, entities, even water!, can be maxed out. You don't need to worry about any lighting glitches or dark spots either, and smooth lighting still functions like normal. So, for what would this mod be useful? Check below!

Spotlight
Thanks to Sorenus for this great review! (v1.6.1)

Create your own spotlight and you may see it above!
For more reviews, see here.

Pictures

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A slideshow of Version 1.0.

Open spoiler to view pictures.

Uses & Stuff
● See better while mining in dark caves
● Spot your enemy easier while engaging in PvP
● Give your videos a brightness boost for your viewers
● Never suffer through the darkness of night again
● Ehh, you'll think of something...

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Download Links -  **Gammabright requires ModLoader or Forge!!**

Gammabright v1.6.2 for Minecraft 1.5.2 - Download (dropbox)
Installation Instructions: Open zip file and drag and drop mod_Gammabright.class into the minecraft.jar. Remember to install ModLoader or Forge, and to delete the META-INF folder.

Recommended: Download either the Macro / Keybind mod, ScrollableControls (my favorite), or Forge to extend the "Controls" screen so that the keybindings this mod adds don't go off the screen!

"G" is the default toggle. Can be changed through Minecraft's "Controls" screen. Read the section below (How To Control Gammabright) to learn how to use all of Gammabright's adjustment controls.

Changelog

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Version 1.6.2
- Updated Gammabright for Minecraft 1.5.2.
- No new features, out of ideas!

Version 1.6.1
- Updated Gammabright for Minecraft 1.5.1.

Version 1.6
- Updated Gammabright for Minecraft 1.5.
- Added a requested option to the config file to enable Gammabright at startup.

Version 1.5.5
- Updated Gammabright for Minecraft 1.4.6.
- Fixed toggle sound playing when any GUI was opened.

Version 1.5.4
- Updated Gammabright for Minecraft 1.4.5.

Version 1.5.3
- Updated Gammabright for Minecraft 1.4.4.
- Modified toggling while flying in creative mode.
- Fixed toggle sound playing when typing in chat.

Version 1.5.2
- Pre-release for Minecraft 1.4.2.
- *Content added merged into v1.5.3 (above).

Version 1.5.1
- Updated Gammabright for Minecraft 1.3.2.
- Discontinued "Vazkii's Mod Update Manager version". Standalone only.

Version 1.5
- Updated Gammabright for Minecraft 1.3.1.
- Removed "breakValue" from configuration file. Default will always be 0.0 (Moody).
- Changed the names of some methods and strings inside the mod.

Version 1.4 - Bug Fixes!
- Changed the default Gammabright toggle from "B" to "G".
- Slightly changed the position of the "Gammabright" text on the screen.
- Made enabling and disabling the "Gammabright" text a little bit easier.
- Fixed "Gammabright" text appearing over other GUI's (TooManyItems, Options menu, etc).
- Fixed the broken brightness slider that is accessed from the Main Menu.
- Gammabright's enabledBrightness setting now resets when leaving a world.
- Selecting a value on the brightness slider now correctly disables Gammabright.
- Modified the descriptions in the configuration file.
- Added an option in the config file to show/not show the "Gammabright" text on startup.
- Added a value called "breakValue" to the config file.
  *Gammabright sets back to this value if it breaks (see "Configuration" section).
- (UM Version) Added support for Mod Update Manager 2.2.

Version 1.3
- How much the arrow keys adjust the brightness is now customizable.
  *Inside the config they are "increment" and "increment_sneak".
- Fixed Gammabright not turning off when exiting a world or quitting the game.

Version 1.2
- Brightness is now controlled in smaller values.
  *Changes are now in increments of 0.25 and 1.0 while sneaking.
- By default a clicking sound plays when mod is toggled (optional).
- Brightness is lowered from 20 to 15. Easier to control, no difference.
- The resetBrightness setting is now removed from the config (pointless).
- Format of text on screen has changed and color is slightly more red.
- Code has been cleaned up and useless methods are now gone.
- A new verison of the Update Manager has been implemented.
- Now sneaking while hitting the reset toggle sets the brightness to 0.
- The brightness shown on screen is now a percent instead of an integer
and corresponds with the percent the brightness slider shows.

Version 1.1 (Special thanks to Vazkii for his help!)
- Added: Ability to adjust gamma brightness in-game using arrow keys!
  * Holding shift while adjusting brightness speeds up process.
- Added: Shift click (or sneak key) support! Allows toggling without text.
- Added: Support for Vazkii's Mod Update Manager.
- Fixed: Broken brightness slider.
- Fixed: Text overlapping debug menu.
- Fixed: Text color now a Hex value, phew!
- Fixed: Messy config file.
- Removed: Pointless option to rename keybinding. ;P

Version 1.0
- Initial Release

Older Versions

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All downloads are linked through goo.gl (to track downloads) to dropbox!

Version 1.6.1 [MC 1.5.1] - Download
Version 1.6 [MC 1.5] - Download
Version 1.5.5 [MC 1.4.5/1.4.6/1.4.7] - Download
Version 1.5.4 [MC 1.4.5] - Download
Version 1.5.3 [MC 1.4.4] - Download
Version 1.5.2 [MC 1.4.2] - Download
Version 1.5.1 [MC 1.3.2] - Download
Version 1.5 [MC 1.3.1] - Download
Version 1.4 [MC 1.2.5] - Download
Version 1.4 (UM) [MC 1.2.5] - Download
Version 1.3 [MC 1.2.5] - Download
Version 1.3 (UM) [MC 1.2.5] - Download
Version 1.2 [MC 1.2.5] - Download
Version 1.2 (UM) [MC 1.2.5] - Download
Version 1.1 [MC 1.2.5] - Download
Version 1.1 (UM) [MC 1.2.5] - Download
Version 1.0 [MC 1.2.5] - Download

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How To Control Gammabright - READ ME

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This section will simply explain how to use and control Gammabright.

• Tap G (default) to toggle Gammabright on and off. Default brightness is 1500%.
◊ If sneaking at the same time, "Gammabright: ????%" text will hide and unhide.

• Hold the right arrow key to increase Gammabright's brightness by 10% per tick.
◊ If sneaking at the same time, brightness will increase by 100% per tick.
- Note: Increasing the brightness over 1500% has no noticable effect.

• Hold the left arrow key to decrease Gammabright's brightness by 10% per tick.
◊ If sneaking at the same time, brightness will decrease by 100% per tick.
- Note: Decreasing the brightness below 0% is pretty much pointless. Almost.

• Tap the down arrow key to reset Gammabright's brightness to default (1500%).
◊ If sneaking at the same time, brightness will set to 0% (Moody setting).

All keybindings for Gammabright can be changed in the "Controls" menu just like any other keybinding.
For customization, see "Configuration" below.

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Configuration (located at ".minecraft\config\mod_Gammabright.cfg") [Start Minecraft if not there]

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I tried my best to make this mod as customizable as possible. Inside the configuration file there are many things you can change. Below I will explain what each option does. Firstly, leave every line with a "#" (comment) in front of it alone.

enabledBrightness - Default: 15.0 (1500%)
This is the gamma setting the mod will set and reset to when enabled. It is set to 15 by default, which is equal to 1500%. At this value everything is lit up at 100% brightness. Anything lower begins to cause blocks and entities to darken, fading away from the fullbright approach. However, if you are not using this mod as a fullbright and just want everything to appear a little brighter than what the brightness slider lets you, feel free to decrease the value even more. 0 = "Moody" setting, 1 = "Bright" setting.

increment - Default: 0.1 (10%)
This is how much pressing the arrow keys (left or right) adjusts the brightness. By default it is set to 0.1, which is equal to 10% per tick.

increment_sneak - Default: 1.0 (100%)
This is how much pressing the arrow keys while sneaking (left or right) adjusts the brightness. By default it is set to 1.0, which is equal to 100% per tick.

text - Default: Gammabright\: %g
Modifing this changes the text that appears on screen when you enable the mod. You can stop this from appearing by sneaking while enabling the mod, or by setting the option below (showText) to false. The \ before the colon is because of Java, but you don't need it. The %g indicates the current brightness percentage.

showText - Default: true
If set to true, the "Gammabright" text will show on startup by default. If false, it will start out being hidden. You can still toggle between having it hidden or not by sneaking and then toggling Gammabright.

xPos - Default: 7
The x-axis position of where the text starts to appear on the screen. 0 is the left border of the screen.

yPos - Default: 6
The y-axis position of where the text starts to appear on the screen. 0 is the top border of the screen.

textColor - Default: FF7519 (Orangish-red)
The color of the text that appears on screen. The value is in hex. Click here for a hex color code finder.

toggleSound - Default: true
If set to true, a clicking sound will play every time Gammabright is toggled on, off, or reset. This feature is to help better blend Gammabright into vanilla Minecraft. If set to false, no sound will play.

enableOnStartup - Default: false
This option gives you the choice to enable Gammabright on startup. By default, it is set to false, but if you want Gammabright to turn on automatically when starting Minecraft, set this option to true. It will also be re-enabled when exiting and loading worlds.

checksum - Default: random crap
Your worst nightmare. No touchy.

Along with the descriptions above I've included some smaller descriptions at the top of the config file in case you need to quickly reference what an option does.

Texture Pack Lighting Fix

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When using some advanced texture packs (ex. Misa's Realistic), Gammabright may be limited to how much it can light up the world due to a custom lightmap the texture pack uses (example here). To fix this, open up the texture pack in question with WinRAR (or another unarchiver) and navigate into the "environment" folder. Inside you should find a file named "lightmap0.png". Delete it and the problem should be solved.

Thanks:

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Vazkii, who gave me a ton of help with this mod! Thanks a lot!
Thebombzen for his MobAura mod. Its source helped me out at first with my keybindings.

Copyright

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Gammabright is a mod for Minecraft created and handled by me, kymaster. Feel free to use this mod in videos or any other types of media as long as you supply a link to this forum topic and/or credit me, kymaster, for the mod. Do not use adf.ly or other URL shorteners to make money off this mod. If you would like to use Gammabright in a modpack, please send me a PM informing me. :)

Suggestions? Feel free to recommend ideas!

Thanks for stopping by!
-kymaster

[Vazkii]

Nice to see 1.1 is now out, anything you did past my edits that you didn't tell me?

[kymaster]

Vazkii, on 28 May 2012 - 06:43 PM, said:

Nice to see 1.1 is now out, anything you did past my edits that you didn't tell me?

Hey Vazkii,
With your version, after adjusting the brightness with the arrow keys, when you toggle it off the brightness just stays the same and doesn't go back to the disabledBrightness setting. It took me a little while to figure it out, some trial and error, but I got that fixed. Now all the adjusting works perfectly. I also added a reset key (down arrow key) to make it easier to go back to the default enabledBrightness setting and renamed the keybindings for the mod because other buttons in the Controls menu overlapped the text. Along with that, I made a couple more tiny adjustments and just played around with the code to get it the way I liked it. I'm already picturing some neat ideas for the next update, but we'll just have to wait and see...

I appreciate the help!

[Neon_ColorsFTW22]

Nice nice.

I guess it's good for when somebody is fighting mobs at night or when attacked so you know who hit you.

[Vazkii]

kymaster, on 28 May 2012 - 08:21 PM, said:

Hey Vazkii,
With your version, after adjusting the brightness with the arrow keys, when you toggle it off the brightness just stays the same and doesn't go back to the disabledBrightness setting. It took me a little while to figure it out, some trial and error, but I got that fixed. Now all the adjusting works perfectly. I also added a reset key (down arrow key) to make it easier to go back to the default enabledBrightness setting and renamed the keybindings for the mod because other buttons in the Controls menu overlapped the text. Along with that, I made a couple more tiny adjustments and just played around with the code to get it the way I liked it. I'm already picturing some neat ideas for the next update, but we'll just have to wait and see...

Thanks for all the support!

Yeah, makes sense, I'm using minecraft forge so I see a different keybind menu from you, and as such I couldn't detect the overlap issue.

[Vazkii]

Oh, you have a new banner

I was going to do you one but I guess I got beat to it.

[kymaster]

Vazkii, on 29 May 2012 - 04:05 PM, said:

Oh, you have a new banner

I was going to do you one but I guess I got beat to it.

Yeah, it's just a basic one I made with the mod slideshow in the background.

I also noticed that you updated your main mods thread! The new thread layout looks great.
So QuickFPS is renamed to EasyFPS. Seems like a smart decision...
I will have to try out some of your other mods again, especially Double Workbench and Health Bars. Thanks for updating all of them!

[Neon_ColorsFTW22]

Downloaded the new update plus the update manger

Thanks for the awesome mod

[Vazkii]

kymaster, on 02 June 2012 - 03:15 PM, said:

Yeah, it's just a basic one I made with the mod slideshow in the background.

I also noticed that you updated your main mods thread! The new thread layout looks great.
So QuickFPS is renamed to EasyFPS. Seems like a smart decision...
I will have to try out some of your other mods again, especially Double Workbench and Health Bars. Thanks for updating all of them!

Haha, you don't have to thank me :3

[RuffiansDestiny]

This is GREAT!!!  WOW, I sure am enjoying this mod!!! Thank you very much!!

[kymaster]

RuffiansDestiny, on 17 June 2012 - 07:23 PM, said:

This is GREAT!!!  WOW, I sure am enjoying this mod!!! Thank you very much!!

No problem, glad to hear it! Feel free to leave any suggestions.

[Vazkii]

New update (v1.2) in progress. Brightness will be controlled in smaller values

Wat? Wasn't that already in?

Code is also being cleaned up

More cleanup? Damn.

Off-topic but still: You should check out my new macros mod for some cool text parsings and suff, it may be usefull ^^ (SHAMELESS SELF-ADVERTISING)

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[kymaster]

Vazkii, on 23 June 2012 - 10:56 PM, said:

New update (v1.2) in progress. Brightness will be controlled in smaller values

Wat? Wasn't that already in?

In version 1.1, the increments were by 10 (while sneaking) and by 1. At first for this version I was trying to make the increments 1 (while sneaking) and 0.1 when not. However, floats like the gamma value do not work well with increments of 0.1. Here's an example of what I mean. I've tried for days to increment the brightness by 0.1 using different techniques, rounding, casting it to an integer and dividing... let's just say it's too much of a struggle to continue on with. I've changed the value now to 0.25, which thankfully causes no problems when being added to floats. It's a little higher than what I wanted, but it works just fine.

Vazkii, on 23 June 2012 - 10:56 PM, said:

Code is also being cleaned up

More cleanup? Damn.

There were some bits and pieces of useless code in the mod. I removed that and also renamed some things to make the code easier to work with. Some other features were added, but you'll just have to wait and see.

[Vazkii]

To start off, casting it to an integer won't work since an integer can't have a decimal value, but you could have just converted the value to a double I think.

Well, I guess, let's see what you have in stock!

Edit: I mentioned CM1.1, it's out btw.

[Hydrox6]

A suggestion: what if you made the brightness fade in when the light level falls below a certain pre-defined amount.

[kymaster]

Hydrox6, on 24 June 2012 - 09:17 PM, said:

A suggestion: what if you made the brightness fade in when the light level falls below a certain pre-defined amount.

Good idea. I'm just about to release the next version, but I will definitely consider it for the next update.

[Neon_ColorsFTW22]

Great job with the mod!

Your really working on this mod a lot as i can see from all the stuff you fixed and added

I think i said i was gonna bump the thread by giving it a +1 in my other replies but it looks like i didn't which i would do right now.

[Vazkii]

1.2 is very nice, but why .25? Have you tried setting your gamma value to a double and casting it to a float when you're going to change the render value? That should work I think.

[kymaster]

Vazkii, on 25 June 2012 - 11:26 AM, said:

1.2 is very nice, but why .25? Have you tried setting your gamma value to a double and casting it to a float when you're going to change the render value? That should work I think.

Well this is odd. When trying to get this to work the past few days I did the same exact thing as you've stated. I set enabledBrightness to a double and casted it to a float when changing the value, but the brightness level on screen was always 1% above the real value when going under 0 (ex. appeared as -129 on screen, -130 on brightness slider) and at random times 1% under the real value when adjusting it above 0. After seeing your post, I tried again to get it to work and I think I've got it! From what I've discovered, adding and subtracting 0.1 didn't screw up the percentage shown on the brightness slider, which is what I'm comparing the Gammabright values to, just the percentage shown on screen. To fix this, I wrote a little if statement that says add 0.001 to enabledBrightness when the value is above 0, and subtract 0.001 when it is under. This is all taking place before multiplying the brightness, casting it to an int, and dividing. Anyways, this seems to of fixed it. It's difficult to explain, but it's working perfectly as of now. If you'd like to look at the source to see for yourself just ask and I'll send it to you. I think I'll add this change in a quick update.

[Vazkii]

kymaster, on 25 June 2012 - 02:40 PM, said:

Well this is odd. When trying to get this to work the past few days I did the same exact thing as you've stated. I set enabledBrightness to a double and casted it to a float when changing the value, but the brightness level on screen was always 1% above the real value when going under 0 (ex. appeared as -129 on screen, -130 on brightness slider) and at random times 1% under the real value when adjusting it above 0. After seeing your post, I tried again to get it to work and I think I've got it! From what I've discovered, adding and subtracting 0.1 didn't screw up the percentage shown on the brightness slider, which is what I'm comparing the Gammabright values to, just the percentage shown on screen. To fix this, I wrote a little if statement that says add 0.001 to enabledBrightness when the value is above 0, and subtract 0.001 when it is under. This is all taking place before multiplying the brightness, casting it to an int, and dividing. Anyways, this seems to of fixed it. It's difficult to explain, but it's working perfectly as of now. If you'd like to look at the source to see for yourself just ask and I'll send it to you. I think I'll add this change in a quick update.

Go ahead if you want to send me the source, I guess there should be a more optimal way to do that, I'll try to get a grip on it trough.

EDIT: You should add to the topic that you can use Minecraft Forge instead of ModLoader, that's because of FML.