Greg's Lighting 1.11.2 for Minecraft 1.7.10

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Version 1.11.2

Fixed last beam block not being removed when a floodlight is broken.

Floodlights now turn on and off slowly, to limit the number of lighting updates per tick. There should no longer be a lag spike when toggling a floodlight in a large open area.

Version 1.11.1

Fixed lighting items not appearing on Greg's Lighting creative tab.

Version 1.11.0

Updated for Minecraft 1.7.10 and IC2 2.2.

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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.

You can also light up a long tunnel, corridor or roadway using a single horizontally-placed floodlight. Or put floodlights on the walls to light a wide room.

Home Page

Further information and download instructions can be found here:

http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/greg.ewing/minecraft/mods/GregsLighting/

Handy!

Very handy.  Just need it to be MP capable and probably be more expensive. 

Yes, that too. But for now, it's great.

Very handy.  Just need it to be MP capable and probably be more expensive. 

It's already MP-capable, or at least it should be -- if you find any problems, let me know.

I'm open to suggestions as to what the recipe should be like. I agree it should probably be more expensive, but I don't like to just chuck gold or diamonds into a recipe at random -- there should be a reason for each resource it needs.

I like it. Can it power IC² solar panels? No, it can't.

For the recipe you could create new items: compressed glowdust (fill the grid with glowstone dust) which has the ability to shine very bright, but it has to be activated by a powerful energy source. For this, create compressed redstone (fill the grid with redstone) which increases the amount of energy for example a lever or a redstone wire gives. Then you could replace redstone and glowstone in the recipe. You could use these items for future lightsources. And of course these items can be back-crafted into the dusts!

i have eventually an idea, u could include a feature, that this floodlight need EU from IC2, like a real floodlight in real life, in the day a solar panel could charge up an energy storage device, and in the night the floddlight drains its energy from this storage device.

you can also try to make a light, in which the light level varies, depending on the eu it draws from storage device. for example, a floodlight which draws 128 eu, has a brighter light than a floodlight with 32 eu

well, just an idea

sry if i post this, but often i get ideas for projects, even when i just read the fred (thread^^).

For the recipe you could create new items: compressed glowdust (fill the grid with glowstone dust) ... compressed redstone (fill the grid with redstone)

That doesn't really make it very expensive, though. Redstone and glowstone are both pretty common.

Maybe a high pressure glowstone bulb that has a diamond shell?

u could include a feature, that this floodlight need EU from IC2

I don't want it to depend on another mod, though.

it was just an idea, u dont have to do it, but maybe some1 will create a mod for ic2, with a lamp which uses eu ^^

u could include a feature, that this floodlight need EU from IC2

 

I don't want it to depend on another mod, though.

True. Maybe you could do some fancy things and if Universal Electricity is installed, have it use power?

Maybe you could do some fancy things and if Universal Electricity is installed, have it use power?

Yes, no doubt I can recognise other mods that have published APIs.

The big sticking point seems to be Redpower. That's the one I'd most like to be compatible with, because IMO it has the nicest and best thought out power system of them all. But interfacing with it seems to be off-limits for the time being.

This is a very nice mod. I've tested it out and played with it, but I don't want it in the pack I'm playing with until a more expensive recipe is decided. I'll be keeping an eye on it until you've added such a thing. Oh, I can't wait.

I really like your idea High-pressure Glowstone bulb. Would give another great use to diamonds.

I really like your idea High-pressure Glowstone bulb. Would give another great use to diamonds.

Okay, I'm thinking the recipe would use 4 diamonds but give you 4 bulbs, so the cost would be 1 diamond per floodlight. Does that sound expensive enough?

Another thing I'm thinking about is making the plain version use redstone as a fuel. Maybe at the rate of 1 redstone per minecraft day or so.

Why redstone? Because sticking wood or coal in the things doesn't seem right... they should be a bit more sophisticated than that!

The pack itself is for personal use, and not for download. So, I'm not asking permission to release it or anything.

I wouldn't actually mind if you did... I'm not out to make money from it or anything.

Perhaps make a recipe that gives 2 diamond chunks/nuggets per diamond, and use the nuggets in the recipe instead. This would still be the same rate, but will require less initial diamonds for the recipe. In "otherwise Vanilla", 4 diamonds being necessary for any recipe outside of armour can be a bit harsh.

Fuel sounds reasonable to me. Could you also make it accept glowstone dust as well? Maybe make it 1.5x - 2x the effectiveness of redstone dust.

Also, would you mind if I tried my hand at some textures as well? I'd post them here for you to either use or view.

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Perhaps make a recipe that gives 2 diamond chunks/nuggets per diamond, and use the nuggets in the recipe instead.

 

Fuel sounds reasonable to me. Could you also make it accept glowstone dust as well?

I'm thinking about another fuel idea now -- calcium carbide. This was apparently used in lighthouses at one time, so it's capable of producing some serious light.

The floodlight would use 1 diamond directly in the recipe, and it would have a GUI with slots for a water bucket and a stack of carbide. The carbide would be made by heating a mixture of bonemeal and charcoal in a furnace.

I'll keep the glowstone bulb idea in mind for an electrically-powered version.

Also, would you mind if I tried my hand at some textures as well?

That'd be fine, thanks. I'll be wanting a different texture for the carbide version, something a bit more old-fashioned looking.

 

 

Perhaps make a recipe that gives 2 diamond chunks/nuggets per diamond, and use the nuggets in the recipe instead.

 

Fuel sounds reasonable to me. Could you also make it accept glowstone dust as well?

 

I'm thinking about another fuel idea now -- calcium carbide. This was apparently used in lighthouses at one time, so it's capable of producing some serious light.

 

The floodlight would use 1 diamond directly in the recipe, and it would have a GUI with slots for a water bucket and a stack of carbide. The carbide would be made by heating a mixture of bonemeal and charcoal in a furnace.

 

I'll keep the glowstone bulb idea in mind for an electrically-powered version.

 

Also, would you mind if I tried my hand at some textures as well?

 

That'd be fine, thanks. I'll be wanting a different texture for the carbide version, something a bit more old-fashioned looking.

 

You lost me. Whatever you do with it, I'll keep checking back for when you release new content for it. It's great.

I threw something together. How is this? (attachment) Go easy on me. I'm a novice. Actually, don't go easy on me.

Also, could you possibly make it so that the block itself glows like a torch or a lamp? Or maybe half as much? All the spots in the texture that light shows through on looks awfully funny when it doesn't effect the surroundings.

For cost I would probably go with something like have it be 'cheapish' to make, maybe multiple lights per 'diamond' or so since the diamond only makes up the shell, but have it take a *single* inventory space for something to be fuel, perhaps glowstone dust powers it for a day each or so (maybe less time).  Water buckets are more difficult to automate just for a light, but having it continuously use up glowstone dust would be nice, especially that it is very difficult to get a continuous and stable supply of without always raiding the nether (unless using EE of course).  Plus that kind of automation can be done be both BC2/3 and RP2.

Buckets needn't be the only way of getting water in -- water cells, pipes, tubes, etc. should work too.

One nice thing about the carbide idea is that all the ingredients -- water, bonemeal and charcoal -- can be made from renewable resources, so it's possible to set up a fully automatic system that runs indefinitely. Whereas short of EE, the only way I know of to get redstone or glowstone is to mine it, with the additional complication of cross-dimensional transport in the case of glowstone.

I don't want to make it excessively difficult to set up a self-sustaining lighting system, just not trivially easy.

It makes me really happy to see that my textures were use for something.

What do you think of them? Should I recolor them or perhaps create different ones, you of course have the privilege to create derivatives yourself if you'd like.

It makes me really happy to see that my textures were use for something.

 

What do you think of them? Should I recolor them or perhaps create different ones

The cobblestone one is fine as it is, thanks for that. I think I'll stick with the one I'm currently using for the IC2 version, as it fits the clean, simple graphic style of that mod.

BTW, you've reminded me that I forgot to credit you in readme, sorry -- corrected now.

It makes me really happy to see that my textures were use for something.

 

What do you think of them? Should I recolor them or perhaps create different ones

The cobblestone one is fine as it is, thanks for that. I think I'll stick with the one I'm currently using for the IC2 version, as it fits the clean, simple graphic style of that mod.

 

BTW, you've reminded me that I forgot to credit you in readme, sorry -- corrected now.

It's fine. If I want different textures, I'll just put it in a texture pack. And thanks for the credit! I really didn't notice until you said something about it.

Just a heads up - I just added this mod to my server, and noticed that destroying torches on the ground directly under the beam dropped the "FloodlightBeam" block... which appeared to give me free, sourceless light I could place anywhere.

I corrected the code in the server jar I use, but I just wanted to let you know.

Cool mod, btw... fixed my failed attempt at ceiling lighting using cables and luminators.

destroying torches on the ground directly under the beam dropped the "FloodlightBeam" block...

 

I corrected the code in the server jar I use

Can you tell me what changes you made, so I can incorporate them?

This is what I added to BlockFloodlightBeam.java from seeing it used in other mods:

@Override
public int quantityDropped(Random random) {
return 0;
}