Starbound lighting

The Vid​

After watching the vid on tho homepage about a little how lighting will be i was like "what the fun"

It looks similar to Terraria's lighting, but only different and much more improved. Flash lights are going to be the bomb and it looks like you can place torches on the wall.

Id like to hear a word from you guys on what you think and maybe what else could be added to the game about the lighting system. One thing that i think will be in Starbound will be something similar to the miners helmet on Terraria, but I'm pretty sure they'll be creative and come up with some pretty cool shnaz. And im pretty sure you guys can think up some stuff too

Ahh from reading this u guys are mentioning mirrors, that would be so cool! Imagine all the things we could do with them and lasers, haha. And i also like the idea of light shining off ores.
I also find that glowing bugs would be pretty sweet and im pretty sure they would be in the game.

The mixing of colors of light thing sounds off the chain, i learn new things every day about all the things going to be in Starbound.

 

I think they should have it that when light hits a shiny like object sliver ore or any metals it shines lighting up a bit around it and I also think they should add glow worms.

 

They are also making colored lighting mix.

(i.e. red torch and a blue torch placed close together will make purple in between them)

 

It's a bit different from Terraria. Like say shadows and stuff. I'm just worried that it would eat up a lot of RAM and lag/crash on slower computers.

 

I love the lighting. Mirrors would be a great addition.

 

Is that your desk?

 

Before the lighting was added, it was mentioned that they had the game running on old hardware. As for the lighting, I believe it was stated somewhere that it uses <0.1% CPU usage.

 

Nope, just an image I found off of Google. I uploaded it because the original was too large so I had to resize it before I posted.

The reason I brought up mirrors is because I remembered the lighting system used for the hatch in Lost.

 

Mirrors would allow us to kill the devil too.

 

I wouldn't say its "amazing", but it is definitely an improvement over Terraria's lighting.

 

If mirrors were added, I think we would have more fun using lasers on them, not flashlights.

 

Mhm, the lightning is quite neat, wants me to have fireflies fly around in a grass field... Thats an neat idea, oh wait now I imagined how it would be on an alien planet where the fireflies are 10x bigger......

 

Rho also said that if you were to shine a blue light onto a red light, in the middle it'd be purple.

 

Well aside the new minecraft shaders mod. I think its the best lighting system in a game like this to date. I think...

 

That's awesome! I always wanted it to do it more like that in Terraria. I hope there are multiple colors, or even the ability to make any color of lense/bulb/crystal thing you want.

 

Exactly what I said!

Oh well

 

Agreed! and how did u get that over 9000 title, and im also wondering where its from because ive heard it alot and i am clueless.

And everyones ideas are great, im just so astounded, i just hope Starbound will have some of these features.

 

I was lucky and got the 9001st post in GD.

 

*Bows down*

 

I wonder if there will be lasers. Like the minecraft lasers mod, but different....