Light Overlay (Rift/Forge/Fabric)
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Last Updated: Feb 2, 2020
Game Version: 1.14.4
This mod provides users with a NEI-like light overlay.
This mod requires Rift, Forge or Fabric. (Fabric API is required for Fabric, Cloth Config (Forge) is required for Forge)
Light Overlay is a client ONLY mod, putting this on a server will do nothing.
Press F7 to toggle the light overlay, configurable through Controls Settings.
A yellow cross means that mobs can spawn at night, a red cross means that mobs can spawn anytime.
Config:
- Rift 1.13.2: Config Screen Not Available
- Forge 1.13.x: Config Screen Not Available
- Forge 1.14+: Mod List > Config
- Fabric 1.14+: Mod Menu > Config
Images:
Known Issue:
This mod does not work well with OptiFine shaders: https://github.com/shedaniel/LightOverlay-Fabric/issues/5
How do I turn the "Numbers" mode on? I really dislike those "Crosses" :<
In reply to Lesniak17:
Look in the config section in the description, there is an option to enable those in the screen.
I was running this on MC 1.15.2 - Forge 31.1.0, ClothConfig 2-2.0 & LightOverlay 4.2 and I got a massive memory leak. It was soaking up 10GBs of RAM after just 10 minutes of game play. I barely even used the overlays, it feels like it's doing calculations while not active. I also couldn't get it to run on Fabric (crash-report here).
In reply to EveryoneBeTwitching:
Fabric API is required for Fabric, also thanks for reporting the issue, I will profile the mod soon to find to memory leak.
In reply to EveryoneBeTwitching:
I was unable to find ram leak when light overlay is disabled, also giving MC to much ram will stop the garbage collector to be active, try giving it less ram.
In reply to shedaniel:
It doesn't happen with vanilla, I don't see why less RAM would help.
In reply to EveryoneBeTwitching:
Are you sure that Light Overlay is not active? Light Overlay itself doesn't do anything unless activated.
In reply to shedaniel:
I'm sure, I usually give it 8GBs and it ate it quick. It works well on Fabric, it's probably forge related.
In reply to EveryoneBeTwitching:
Will look into the forge version later.
I really love this mod it shows even the corners and the little holes you might miss in vanilla.
It would be great to have a status message in the chat if you activate / deactivate the mod by hotkey.
In reply to AC_ID_:
Please request via github! I will be happy to add features if I like them as well. :)
Done ;)
nm. had older version. fixed.
Hai Shedaniel
Really love this mod, extremely usefull for lighting up caves when building mob farms, however I think I have discovered a bug somewhere.
The game will crash when trying to load a smile entity and it doesn't matter where as long as it's in the player render distance. I tested this on a singleplayer world after encountering on a multiplayer server. Is there anything I can do to solve this?
Link to download of the crash report: https://we.tl/t-Css03hLSWh
In reply to InnocentDoggo:
The log doesn't tell us that it is an issue with Light Overlay, however optifine is installed, which does not support 1.15.2, you will have to remove optifine because it is the one causing the issue because it is not updated to 1.15.2, unfortunately we will have to wait until they update it.
In reply to shedaniel:
Ah I see now, I accidentally had an optifine installer in the mods folder. It works now, many thanks! <3
This mod doesn't work very well on 1.5.2 servers with Forge. It gives enemies new models (ex: donkeys are actually creepers), spawns enemies in rivers (12 sheep in a river. Don't ask.), puts dropped items in item frames (no idea why it does this.), and occasionally makes items in your inventory into different items (I got an Elytra and Cartography Table from this.)
All changes are fixed when you remove the mod(s).
Now, my question is if these bugs are due to the Light Overlay mod not being meant for online servers, or if it's because the Cloth Config doesn't work well with online servers.
I am also using Xaero's Minimap and Xaero's World Map. Note that these strange occurrences do not appear in singleplayer.
In reply to civilCornball:
Cloth Config nor Light Overlay is doing anything with how entities are rendered, spawned or handled. Neither this mod would glitch items in or out. Light Overlay is client sided only, with full support for servers, since it only uses the data the client receives from the server.
It would be appreciated if you could share your logs and we can investigate further whether this is an issue from Light Overlay, Cloth Config or any other mods.
Nice mod
Hi! Nice port of the classic mod!
I was wondering, could you make configurable the light level at which the red or yellow X appears?
Sometimes you want to detect when light level is less than 9 or 10 for other mechanics, such as blaze spawning or zombie reinforcement spawning, so the ability to change the detected light level would be very nice.
Thanks anyways for the mod!
Inko