Lighting adjustments for "Out the map" builds

[glad jungle]

As you can see in the photos, when "Out the map" blocks are in a dark location, in this example under the water, they become very dark to the point where its very hard to differentiate between the different blocks. In addition to this, when a "Out the map" block is painted a glowing colour, it doesn't light up said block, nor blocks around it. This means that lighting up dark areas "Out the map" is bascially impossible.

My suggestion is to make glowing blocks outside the map work the same as they do inside the map, so lighting up an area around the painted block. This would allow players to have more freedom when building out the map, and allow them to control the lighting for darker areas

[shy flare]

Uh oh, axilotils typing

[cinder quartz]

the reason blocks outside the map are (mostly) unaffected by lighting is because it would cause a lot of lag
or at least, I assume that's why

[tough geode]

They are just rendered as normal blocks

And count too

[cinder quartz]

so that's more normal blocks the game has to update the lighting for

[tough geode]

Yeah

Which is weird cause they are affected by lightning just its outside the map which like in 1.0 is pitch black outside

[glad jungle]

I do agree with it causing more lag, but I dont think this should be too much of an issue during actual gameplay, as the light is primarily still. However, I am no where near being a game designer, so I may be wrong about this

[cosmic tangle]

What about a block to adjust lighting like the normal lighting block

Or does it have to be specific areas

[uncut hound]

i think there just shouldn't be fog outside the map in creative

like it just be a wall in creative

or is that not what you mean?

[summer anvil]

nope

you can already do this in game

using water

If it were laggy they wouldn’t of had added the feature

oh wait

I see the suggestion now

yeah no

[glad jungle]

I dont really mind the fog too much, but I think a way to toggle it on/off woild be a really good idea

[naive agate]

Idk man the dark one looks kinda cool

[glad jungle]

I do agree with the dark looking cool, but it'll still be good to have the option to light these areas up

For example with my build, I would preferably like it to be dark, but also have some patches of light to make a more spooky atmosphere