Discuss Minecraft's graphics and visual effects, including lighting, animations, textures, colors, icons, and overall visual presentation. Share your thoughts on what makes Minecraft look great and how its visuals could be improved.

← Graphics
8
Follow

Replace the current lighting engine (Java Edition)

So basically the lighting engine we have now is awful and I think it could be replaced to boost performance, and maybe even add more capabilities to the lighting engine such as dynamic lighting (but I wouldn't mind if its changed only to make the lighting engine better for performance) there have been mods such as starlight that have proven that we need a faster and just an overall better lighting engine. Thanks for reading.

Avatar
Registered User shared this idea

3 Comments

Post a new comment:

Please sign in to leave a comment.

Date Votes
Sorted by oldest
  • 1
    Registered User commented
    Comment actions Permalink

    YES! We need a lighting engine that will also support colored lights.

  • 0
    Registered User commented
    Comment actions Permalink

    ?

  • 0
    Registered User commented
    Comment actions Permalink

    Agreed. The lighting engine needs rewritten to fully utilize shaders and the GPU. They cannot currently do colored lighting because the current engine is too slow. The solution is not to abandon colored lighting, but to just rewrite the freaking lighting engine already! This would also solve the performance issues with anything that lights up (like Redstone).

    Like, lighting is one of the laggiest things in the game, and they still haven't rewritten the lighting to use the GPU after 15 years. GPUs are there for a reason, use them!

    Not only that, but this is just bad management. Focus on the things that will impact the game the most. If most of your lag is coming from lighting, then you should have been focusing on that 5 years ago already. If you have to move someone from the Bedrock team to the Java team just for the lighting engine rewrite, then do that.