JustLights

🕯️ JustLights — Ultra-HD Colored Lighting & Rustic Fixtures

JustLights brings true, vibrant, colored illumination to Minecraft 1.21.1. Designed from the ground up for high-resolution texture packs, rustic town-building, and high-end shaders (Iris, Sodium, Complementary Reimagined & BSL), JustLights transforms your builds with handcrafted 128×128 Ultra-HD textures, dynamic Connected Textures (CTM), and real colored light radiance that illuminates surrounding walls and fog.

Whether you're decorating a medieval tavern, a sprawling town colony, an industrial mining dock, or a magical underwater grotto, JustLights has the perfect fixture for every build.

🚀 What's New in v1.0.2

• 💡 Modern Flat LED Panel Design: Switched connected lamp fixtures to a modern, solid-color LED diffuser panel design. Eliminates the old static radial "bulb" gradients, removing all offset hotspots, dark seams, and center voids in multi-block fixtures.
• 🔗 Flawless Connected Textures (CTM): 2×2 ceiling panels, long horizontal light strips, and T-junction doorways now connect into unified, uninterrupted glowing light fixtures with 0-pixel seam variance.
• 🛡️ Smooth Lighting & Ambient Occlusion Fix: Disabled vertex ambient occlusion on all lamp block models (ambientocclusion: false). Prevents Minecraft and Sodium from slicing 45-degree diagonal shadows across metal bezels and faces when placed against ceilings or walls.
• 🌟 Optimized Shader Bloom: Uniform emissive maps (_e.png) provide rich, smooth volumetric bloom across the entire fixture surface when paired with Complementary Reimagined, Euphoria Patches, or BSL.

✨ Key Features

• 🎨 All 16 Minecraft Dye Colors: Every single fixture is available in all 16 colors.
• 💎 128×128 Ultra-HD Handcrafted Textures: Brushed anthracite frames, forged wrought-iron metalwork, rustic dark oak fibers, and frosted stained glass diffusers.
• 🌟 Native Shader Integration & Emissive Maps: Pre-configured block.properties for Complementary Reimagined, BSL, and Iris. Casts real colored voxel light onto floors, ceilings, and atmospheric fog!
• 🔗 Connected Textures (Fusion CTM): Multi-block lamp arrays dynamically connect into seamless fixtures without borders.
• 💡 3-Stage Dimmable Brightness: Adjust lamps and floor grates between ambient candlelight (Light 5), cozy room light (Light 10), and maximum security light (Light 15).
• 🌙 Integrated Streetlight Mode (Day/Night Auto): Lamps automatically turn on at dusk and shut off at sunrise—no Redstone wiring required!
• 🖌️ In-World Dyeing: Change the color of any placed JustLights fixture on the fly by simply right-clicking it with a dye in hand.
• 🍖 Full Survival & Vanilla Mechanics: 368 balanced recipes, explosion-proof block drops, and fully functional campfires that cook food!

🏮 The Fixtures Collection

1. 💡 Connected Fixture Lamps

• Aesthetic: Industrial brushed metal casing with hex bolts and frosted glass diffusers.
• Connected Textures: Seamlessly connects horizontally and vertically when placed together.
• Controls: Click to toggle on/off, or power with Redstone. Shift + Right-Click to adjust dimming or enable Streetlight mode.

2. 🕯️ Rustic Torches & Wall Torches

• Aesthetic: Hand-carved rustic dark oak shaft, forged iron collar, and glowing ember flame tip.
• Special Particles: Blue, Cyan, and Light Blue torches produce atmospheric Soul Fire particles (SOUL_FIRE_FLAME), while others produce dancing warm flame particles.

3. 🏮 Wrought-Iron Lanterns

• Aesthetic: Heavy wrought-iron cage with corner rivets, hanging loop, and glowing frosted glass core.
• Placement: Place on the floor, hang from ceilings/chains, or mount to walls.

4. 🔥 Cooking Campfires

• Aesthetic: Criss-cross oak logs over a glowing bed of pulsating embers with procedural leaping flames.
• Full Mechanics: Cooks up to 4 raw food items, produces cozy smoke (or high signal smoke with a hay bale underneath), can be extinguished with a shovel or water, and relit with flint & steel.

5. ⛓️ Heavy Floor Grate Lights

• Aesthetic: Flush cast-iron floor grates with recessed colored uplighting.
• Ideal for: Streets, town squares, harbor docks, castle courtyards, and mine cart tunnels. Smooth walkover with zero collision snags! Fully dimmable.

6. 👑 Wrought-Iron Chandeliers

• Aesthetic: 4-arm circular forged-iron chandelier with scrollwork arms, candle cups, wax candles, and 4 flickering flames.
• Placement: Hang from ceilings and chains or place as a freestanding candelabra. Waterloggable!

7. 🎃 Carved Jack o'Lanterns

• Aesthetic: Ribbed pumpkin rind featuring an ominous carved grin where the eyes, nose, and teeth radiate bright colored light. Rotatable in all 4 cardinal directions.

8. 🫧 Waterproof Diving Torches

• Aesthetic: Reinforced aged-bronze casing with waterproof resin and an eternal submerged flame.
• Mechanics: Waterloggable! Does not pop off when submerged in water and emits rising air bubbles. Perfect for canals, fountains, and underwater grottos.

🎮 How It Works & Controls

🎨 Shader Compatibility & Recommended Settings

JustLights is built from the ground up for high-end shaders (Complementary Reimagined, Euphoria Patches, and BSL).

💡 Automatic Shader Integration:
JustLights automatically detects Complementary Reimagined and BSL in your shaderpacks folder upon game launch and configures them so colored lighting works seamlessly out-of-the-box!

🌟 Recommended Complementary Settings (For Ultra-Vibrant Colored Radiance):

To get the most dramatic, vivid, and atmospheric colored light rays and volumetric fog, open Options → Video Settings → Shader Packs → Shader Options:

1. Performance & Settings (or Other Settings) → ACT Features Settings:

   • Colored Candle Light: ON (Essential: allows all 16 dye colors to cast colored voxel radiance)
   • Colored Light Saturation: 125% (Boosts color richness so it completely overrides bland yellowish light)
   • Colored Light Fog: ON (Enables gorgeous volumetric godrays and colored atmosphere in the air)
   • Colored Light Fog Intensity: 1.00 – 1.50 (Increases the intensity of colored light beams)

2. Performance Settings:

   • Colored Lighting: 512 or 1024 (Controls voxel volume radius and colored light distance)

3. Lighting & Atmosphere (Optional for Extra Coziness):

   • Blocklight Flickering: ON (Creates subtle cozy flame flicker for Torches, Lanterns & Campfires)
   • World Space Reflections: ON (Reflects glowing colored lamps on wet floors, puddles, and water!)

💡 Non-Shader / Vanilla Experience

Even without shaders, JustLights looks stunning! Every block features handcrafted 128×128 Ultra-HD textures with brushed metal frames, wrought-iron rivets, rustic wood fibers, and bright vanilla light emission (Light Level 15).

🛠️ Requirements & Recommendations

• Minecraft: 1.21.1
• Mod Loader: NeoForge (21.1.x)
• Recommended Mods for Maximum Visuals:
  • Iris Shaders + Sodium
  • Fusion (Connected Textures) (enables dynamic connected textures for lamps)
  • Complementary Reimagined or BSL Shaders

📜 Permissions & Modpacks

• Modpacks: Feel free to include JustLights in any CurseForge or Modrinth modpack! No permission needed.
• Bug Reports & Suggestions: Found an issue or have an idea for a new fixture? Leave a comment or open an issue on our GitHub repository.