Pixel Reality - Luminance
Realistic lighting with vanilla textures or any other pack, a perfect alternative to shaders if your machine just can't handle them!
- If you like this pack don't ask me if you can include it in your resource pack, but suggest people to use it together with your own pack, that's the whole point of format changes Mojang introduced versions ago.
- If you want to let people know of this pack do it by posting a link to this page so I get credit and downloads.
To make this pack work properly you need to mod your game with Optifine. If you don't, no changes will be visible. Once downloaded, put it in your resource pack folder, start Minecraft, go to the resource pack menu, move them on top of your other resource packs and finally confirm to apply the changes.
NOTE: because of how Minecraft's lighting system works you need to keep your Brightness level as low as possible or the shading will basically be unnoticeable.
It includes 4 alternative packs (open the .zip and read the READ ME.txt file):
PIXEL REALITY - LUMINANCE (FULL)
This version is included in the Pixel Reality resource pack and is intended to heavily influence the gameplay, making the game more difficult.
Realistic shading and colors but with weaker light sources and darker shadows, being pitch black at light level 0 regardless of your Brightness settings. Night vision is hampered by strong light and heat sources (including the sun) making your vision actually worse at day and in the Nether. The End is very dark and even light sources are very dim; Night Vision is a life saver here.
PIXEL REALITY - LUMINANCE (PALE)
Like Full, but artificial lights in the Overworld are vanilla white-ish instead of orange. In the Nether they're still fire-red and in the End they're still dim and yellow-ish, to preserve the otherworldly atmosphere.
PIXEL REALITY - LUMINANCE (BRIGHT)
Realistic shading and light colors but vanilla brightness. Use this if you want bright nights and underground.
PIXEL REALITY - LUMINANCE (LIGHT)
Only realistic shading but vanilla colors and brightness. Use this if you only want nicer shadows but no other changes to visuals.
MORE PIXEL REALITIES!
Also check Pixel Reality - Atmosphere: it adds a realistic sky to vanilla or any pack, it's a good companion to Pixel Reality - Luminance if you want to give a realistic feel to your favorite pack.
Can you make it so that you can have the color effects of torches while not having the "making the game more difficult." I know others have also requested this.
In reply to Gaming32i:
Just to clarify, outside from orange-ish torch light there's anything else you would keep? I assume you don't want total darkness to be... totally dark, but what about dawn/dusk light colors, shadow color, End and Nether light colors etc.?
Pretty much yeah. I don't really like complete darkness, and complete darkness is what keeps me from playing with shaders.
In reply to Gaming32i:
Ok, I uploaded an update with a new alternative pack: Bright. It includes nice shadows and orange-ish artificial lights but the brightness level at night and underground should be the same as vanilla.
Cool!
robux
Sorry, I'm really new to modding minecraft and not exactly sure about it all.
So just to clarify, this is a resource pack (not shaders) that enhances lighting but doesnt touch other textures, making it a sort of enhancement pack to be used with any resource pack?
In reply to transflux:
Yep, you just need to install Optifine and then you can use it with vanilla or any other resource pack, assuming you move it on top of those in the menu.
In reply to Wedhro:
I love it, this is awesome.
is it possible to somehow make the blue fire literally have a bluish illumination different from a normal torch?
In reply to kakashioninjasacana:
No, it's impossible without shaders.
How did you get this to work? It IS JUST A TEXTURE PACK. anyway i am on mac and realism is not accepted by my specs so this was perfect!
COOL! but is there a way to make sunlight yellower and shadows more noticable?
In reply to javagirl7575:
Sorry but no, a yellow sun and harder shadows wouldn't be realistic, and realism is the main focus of this pack. Anyway, maybe shadows aren't noticeable enough because your Brigthness (see your options) is too high? This pack works only at very low Brightness value. the lower the better.
This is PERFECT!! but I have a request : can you make sunlight yellower and shadows more noticable?
The caverns with the mods that exist now are fantastic to explore, I like the "light" option because it is the only one that I can appreciate the atmosphere somewhat (in the caves), but I really like the yellowish tone that it gives to the surface the "full" option, there is no way to configure the light version so that it has the same yellow tone?
great mod
In reply to wachecheiro:
That's what the default version is for, there is something in that you don't like?
In reply to Wedhro:
absolute darkness, I can't appreciate the caverns with that, that's why the "light" version (which can be seen in the dark with it), but with the yellowish tone imitating the sun of the "full" version,
regards
In reply to wachecheiro:
Unfortunately that's not a popular request so it's not worth it to make a pack, sorry.
Does the 1.15.2 version work for 1.16.1?