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[Greg_Ewing]

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Version 1.7.1 - Fixed serious brokenness in IC2 floodlights. Note: If you had any IC2 floodlights with the internal switch turned on, you may need to turn them on again after installing this update.

Version 1.7 - Floodlights can now face in any direction, providing an easy way to light up long narrow spaces such as tunnels and corridors. Some changes have also been made to the recipes, and the unpowered floodlight is now enabled by default. See the Forge Forum Topic for details.

Greg's Lighting

In one of his videos, Direwolf20 was lamenting how hard it is to light up very large rooms adequately without putting light sources near the floor. So, I created a small mod to help with that. This mod currently provides just one item, the Floodlight. It produces light that propagates at full brightness for up to 64 blocks or until it hits a nonempty block.

The following screenshots illustrate the effect. The first one is lit just with a torch near the ceiling, and the second one has the floodlight turned on.



Home Page

Further information and download instructions can be found here:

http://www.cosc.cant.../GregsLighting/

Minecraft Forge Forum Topic

See here for change history and development discussion.

http://minecraftforg...opic,860.0.html

[Apeguy]

This mod ain't so bad. (Downloading)

[EvanCmeh]

nice, ima make a spotlight vid. Message me if you want a link to it when its done so you can use it

also heres some of my other spotlights so you can decide if youd like it:

[supra107]

Yo bro, need a help with textures? I can make some.

Anyways, good mod! It should be called "Reflector Mod"

REMEMBER TO ADD A VERSION NUMBER ON FRONT OF TITLE!!!

[Greg_Ewing]

supra107, on 16 July 2012 - 06:14 PM, said:

Yo bro, need a help with textures? I can make some.

If you have a better idea for what the texture should look like, I'm open to suggestions. I don't claim to be the world's greatest texture artist. :-)

[Azradun]

This looks both nice and useful Plus, it's open source? Even better.

Good work!

[aser96\]

awesome i was looking for something like this!

[Jblade35]

Very cool! I hate building a great looking place for my industrial stuff and then having to stick torches all over the place just so monsters won't spawn. A good simple mod, nice work

[supra107]

Anyways, good mod! It should be called "Reflector Mod"

REMEMBER TO ADD A VERSION NUMBER ON FRONT OF TITLE!!!

Maybe add possibility to place block in other ways like light facing the wall. And maybe light wireless lightswichtes?

[Muazrmar]

Great mod This is awesome and pretty useful.

[knightwolf153]

Hey mate, saw your post in Direwolf20's lets play thread, great mod, so many times I've wanted to light up a large room but don't like the idea of torches everywhere...

Maybe add an API so you can change the "spot" of the light, maybe from a 5x5 block radius to 20x20 block radius??

[Greg_Ewing]

knightwolf153, on 17 July 2012 - 11:39 AM, said:

Maybe add an API so you can change the "spot" of the light, maybe from a 5x5 block radius to 20x20 block radius??

That could be a bit tricky to implement. Currently it works by placing a column of invisible blocks having a light level of 15, and the light falls off sideways from there according to the usual rules. I could reduce the spot size by lowering the light level, but that would make it less bright overall. To make it any larger, I would need to make the invisible block column bigger than 1x1, which could get messy.

Also I want to be careful how I use the 4-bit metadata field. I'm already using 1 bit for the on/off status, and I'd like to reserve the rest for possible orientation support in the future. I know I could attach a tile entity, but it would be nice if I could avoid that much complexity.

[CAM3LS]

Wow.. This is a amazing idea. The other day I was playing minecraft, and had to place like 2 stacks of torches (literally) to cover my entire mine. and house area, this really helps alot

[xchainblade]

Hey greg, Zerren from IRC here, just gonna post here too about the small issue for posterity:

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Any transparent block placed under the direct beam does NOT allow light to propagate downward, instead stopping the beam completely at the block. A glass block placed directly adjacent to the floodlight lamp face blocks any light whatsoever.

[Greg_Ewing]

xchainblade, on 18 July 2012 - 03:58 AM, said:

Any transparent block placed under the direct beam does NOT allow light to propagate downward

Fixed (as much as I can) in version 1.1.

[SpAcE_mOnKeY126]

would it be possible to make it so you can aim the beam of light up, left and right as well?

wonder if it would create a lot of lag if you place it sideways a little high up and turned it on

[Bomberjosh143]

i like this..

[Greg_Ewing]

(Due to a bit of a faux pax on my part in the Minecraft Forge Forums, I'm unable to post there just at the moment, so I'm posting this here.)

I've uploaded a prerelease of version 1.2 for anyone who would like to try it out. Main features of this version are:

• Floodlights are more expensive to craft (1 diamond required for every 4 lights)
  
• Power source required -- currently calcium carbide and water; electric ones coming in a future version
  
• Can be supplied with fuel via pipes and tubes
  
• Will accept water cells, cans and capsules from IC2 and forestry as water sources

http://www.cosc.cant...ing/prerelease/

[Greg_Ewing]

Greg's Lighting 1.2pre2 Available

http://www.cosc.cant...ing/prerelease/

New in this release: IC2 Electric Floodlights

[Greg_Ewing]

Haven't received any bug reports since the last prerelease, so I'm making an official release of 1.2.

I've made one small change since 1.2pre2 -- the IC2 floodlights are now more of a greenish-grey colour. I'm saving the blue-grey for a future Blulectric version.