Hope these are useful to others! I made them because a friend was super into Pixel Reality Luminance lightmaps, and I couldn't find a middle ground between excessive darkness/heavy coloring, and 'too vanilla'. AJ Lightin' is my best shot at a general purpose lightmap providing mood mostly through subtly darker shadows and manipulating color temperature. It works on torchlight, the Nether, the End, and even gives a special light to dawn, dusk, and rainstorms/midmorning.
It just looks a bit warmer. How is it more natural?
The torch lighting interacts with ambient light, causing its warmer colors to make subtle halos in the darkness. Light falls off into the distance especially in the Nether and the End, but also in the overworld, reducing the tendency of everything to look overlit without totally reducing the world to darkness. Dawn and dusk have a slightly rosier tint, and rain gets a faintly bluish tint to suggest light filtering through rainfall. I've tried to do all of this without the 'looking through theater lighting gels' effect I usually see on fancy lightmaps.
I hope it worked! At any rate, it's working pretty well for me the Imgur folder, or using it, might give more of an indication of what this pack is about.
Woohoo! I'm glad I'm not the only one. It bugs me when 'colored light' resource packs are like theater gels. I know about color temperatures and stuff like 'Flux' and the way to adjust color atmosphere is way subtler than I usually see. The trouble is, since it's not outrageous it might not be as immediately different, but I think it really helps
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Here's an imgur folder with more examples: http://imgur.com/a/vN5tY#13
Blog post about the AJ Lightin' lightmaps: http://www.applejinx...-for-minecraft/
Direct link to the lightmaps resource pack in the form of a zip: http://www.applejinx...s/AJLightin.zip
Hope these are useful to others! I made them because a friend was super into Pixel Reality Luminance lightmaps, and I couldn't find a middle ground between excessive darkness/heavy coloring, and 'too vanilla'. AJ Lightin' is my best shot at a general purpose lightmap providing mood mostly through subtly darker shadows and manipulating color temperature. It works on torchlight, the Nether, the End, and even gives a special light to dawn, dusk, and rainstorms/midmorning.
The torch lighting interacts with ambient light, causing its warmer colors to make subtle halos in the darkness. Light falls off into the distance especially in the Nether and the End, but also in the overworld, reducing the tendency of everything to look overlit without totally reducing the world to darkness. Dawn and dusk have a slightly rosier tint, and rain gets a faintly bluish tint to suggest light filtering through rainfall. I've tried to do all of this without the 'looking through theater lighting gels' effect I usually see on fancy lightmaps.
I hope it worked! At any rate, it's working pretty well for me
Woohoo! I'm glad I'm not the only one. It bugs me when 'colored light' resource packs are like theater gels. I know about color temperatures and stuff like 'Flux' and the way to adjust color atmosphere is way subtler than I usually see. The trouble is, since it's not outrageous it might not be as immediately different, but I think it really helps