Any existing colored lighting mods?

[McCar7hy]

I'm wondering since there are different colored lights, why not colored lighting effects? Maybe they exist but I haven't been able to find them. Kind of defeats the purpose of having colored lights if they all still emit "white" brightness.

 

[SteveTech]

If memory serves, and it often does not, there have been multiple attempts at adding different colored lights to MC. But due to the way the rendering engine is written it is quite difficult.

I know at one point long ago I saw a youtube video claiming to have done it, but I have never seen it in mod form. I believe Eloraam was working on it at one point as well but she too gave up(or at least put it aside).

Edit: According to Elo:

“You should make lights shine the color that they are.” I wanted to, and when I saw 1.8 the first time, I thought that Notch had actually added colored light. Instead, he moved to a new system of multitexturing for light level code (basically using a second texture where the coordinates are torchlight and sunlight levels), which actually makes it much, much more difficult to ever make this happen. It would now take not just a complete rewrite, but also a redesign, of the lighting code.

 

[McCar7hy]

I can imagine. Bummer.