How do I get my optifine and dynamic lights to work?

[potent coyote]

I've never had trouble using optifine in the past for dynamic lighting and zoom, for some reason it's not working though, can I get some help?

[sage panther]

uhm

are you using optifine on fabric?

doesnt optifine have its own built in dynamic lighting system? adding another mod to do it would make the conflict

but if you're running fabric, dont use optifine

optifine bad
sodium good

[potent coyote]

thanks you're so helpful!

[sage panther]

for fabric, sodium will give a higher performance boost. adding on many other mods will give you the capabilities of optifine.

Iris for shaders
LambDynamicLights for dynamic lighting
Zoomify or Logical Zoom for the zoom feature
Connectivity for connected textures

etc etc

@potent coyote

here's this: https://lambdaurora.dev/optifine_alternatives/

[potent coyote]

Does sodium not create built-in zooming capabilities and dynamic lighting?

[sage panther]

it does not. sodium by itself greatly optimizes minecraft's rendering engine and fixes many graphical issues

Iris adds shader support

so you can choose which capabilities you'd like, but overall, much much better

optifine doesnt even seem to help with perfomance nowadays and it's closed source so only the single creator can fix bugs and such, so its slow to update

[potent coyote]

i'm not looking for performance I want zoom and dynamic lights is all, thank you though

[split zephyr]

Both of those functions are separate mods in Fabric.

[Side note: it’s not just that Fabric players and mod devs think Sodium is better than Optifine at what they do, it’s also that mod devs often recommend getting rid of Optifine because of bugs it causes.]

Lamdynamiclights is a dynamic lighting mod: https://modrinth.com/mod/lambdynamiclights

Zoomify adds zooming: https://modrinth.com/mod/zoomify

There are other mods that provide those functions too.

[sage panther]

Test out logical zoom too. Have heard some lag problems with one of the two zoom mods from poor optimization