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I heard that the lighting engine is getting an overhaul for the upcoming update. Hopefully it will allow more light colors.

--Ocram

I love this idea but I do think it would cause quite a lot of lag for players especially on low-end computers. Perhaps coloured redstone lamps could also be added so you could make more compact coloured lighting. This could be done by filling the corners on the crafting recipe with the colour you want the redstone lamp to be. Awesome idea and great pictures!

This would lead to many great design ideas. I definitely support this.

Quote from goldbug

Yes it is. I did not even know what a shader was when I started it.

Very impressive.



So uhh... ??

Quote from hypercaik

Love this idea, been looking for something like this for a while, hope someone makes a mod of this. (or, you know, Jeb adds it to the game)

I'd love to see it added to the base game so we 360 players may also, one day, see it implemented. You guys still have my support and my hopes that this is one of the suggestions they decide to take and run with. So many possibilities here, from Discoteks, to cathedrals, to atmospheric lighting, I even came up with a design for a bar using tinted glass as the windows with red and blue blocks lit up from the inside to shine onto the street. Ah, it'd be great! I'd be tempted to go back and make my city look like Las Vegas with neon signs everywhere!

Quote from anicet74

coloured light,not coloured lighting

Oh hello Herobrine, come to haunt my thread?

Quote from anicet74

coloured light,not coloured lighting

And the difference between the two of them would be....?

Not too crazy about the lighting part of it, but hey, I still support this anyway. If you get lost, you can mark paths using these which is pretty cool.

Quote from anicet74

no,in fact,I'm looking for red lights to be more scary

Thats true, you aren't as scary as you used to be now that all the little kiddies started wearing your skin around. Looks like you need a 'mood' upgrade; you have come to the right place. -_^

Quote from Meekswell24

Is block story really that good?

i wish people would stop saying that oh there is already a mod that does that because if you rely on mods for all the cool ideas
#1 nothing will work in SMP unless the admins add support and require custom clients
#2 the dev team will never implement something as vanilla if they are concerned about potential copyright issues
#3 it is kinda annoying and detrimental to the discussion
#4 it makes me depressed knowing that user generated contend has flown past and is superior to the actual game.

i really want to see this in VANILLA !

GUYS! I was just sent this twitter comment by Dinnerbone! it sounds promising, colored glass and colored light may be a reality soon!!!!

Check it out!
https://twitter.com/Dinnerbone/status/250583946977497088

Amazing!
The screenshots look so scenic!
Hope this is really added!

Quote from Ivysaur1996

He said nothing about colored light... that would be too radical of a change with the lighting engine he's working on, methinks.

Of course he didn't, what's the fun in that!? -_^ and it wouldn't be a radical change, it would be an addition. perhaps they made the new lighting engine with colored light in mind. And if so, it doesn't necessarily mean we will be seeing colored light in the next update or so.

Don't forget; I only said it sounded 'promising.' Not that it was declared. Also, PLEASE try to stay positive everyone; being negative or doubting all the time decreases our chances for colored glass and light because it brings the demands down.

Quote from Galactic_Muffin

GUYS! I was just sent this twitter comment by Dinnerbone! it sounds promising, colored glass and colored light may be a reality soon!!!!

Check it out!
https://twitter.com/...583946977497088

Great! I really like this idea. I thought this would've been brought to Minecraft when the reworked the lighting system (was expecting the glass to come in 2.0).

This NEEDS to be added to Vanilla Minecraft.

Quote from Galactic_Muffin

GUYS! I was just sent this twitter comment by Dinnerbone! it sounds promising, colored glass and colored light may be a reality soon!!!!

Check it out!
https://twitter.com/...583946977497088

Wow this is starting to look like a real possibility. I can't find the link, but i remember there being a tweet a while back about this suggestion being unlikely due to the way lighting works. Hopefully this means they're seriously looking at this!

Quote from corinanth

i wish people would stop saying that oh there is already a mod that does that because if you rely on mods for all the cool ideas
#1 nothing will work in SMP unless the admins add support and require custom clients
#2 the dev team will never implement something as vanilla if they are concerned about potential copyright issues
#3 it is kinda annoying and detrimental to the discussion
#4 it makes me depressed knowing that user generated contend has flown past and is superior to the actual game.

i really want to see this in VANILLA !

Block Story is not a mod. It is a different game, currently only for android.

Stained glass is an old want of mine that I never stopped wanting.

Quote from goldbug

Block Story is not a mod. It is a different game, currently only for android.

Hmm perhaps you just didn't see it...

Quote from Galactic_Muffin

I am a developer myself; we have a team of 8 developing for Xbox live, android and windows phones. But don't worry, we are far from competitors since our games are completely opposite from each other. But we are similar in the fact that both of our games are heavily inspired from another... except we both build a better game.