Create: Lightworks

This mod brings functional lighting to Create: searchlights, floodlights, beacons and vehicle lights that light up whatever they're pointed at. They keep doing it on moving contraptions, trains and airships too.

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1) Aim a Beam

The Searchlight throws a long, narrow beam across the dark. For lighting a whole area, use the Floodlight instead.

You can aim either one to the exact degree with its Pan and Tilt value boxes. Or mount it on a Pan-Tilt Head and let a shaft turn it round. Redstone tilts it up, and the head can sweep back and forth on its own.

2) Signal and Mark

The Rotating Beacon spins its two beams with the shaft that drives it.

Warning Lights have several patterns, from a steady glow to a strobe, and can be set to come on only at night. Line up Edge Lights to mark runways and platforms, in any colour you like.

3) Light Your Vehicles

Headlights only shine the way the vehicle is going, so when it reverses, the ones at the other end take over. Tail and Brake Lights glow red at the back and brighten whenever the vehicle slows down.

All of this works on Create contraptions, trains and Sable airships. Point a Searchlight at a passing airship and the beam stops on its hull and lights it up as it flies.

Colour and Control

Dye a light and everything it casts takes the colour: the lens, the beam and the spot it lights. Overlapping colours mix the way light does, so red and green make yellow.

Redstone dims any light. Create's Clipboard copies settings from one light to another, and Engineer's Goggles show what a light is doing. Every block has its own Ponder scene, too.

Optional Integrations

Moving lights light up the world around them on their own: each one places invisible light where it lands, on your client only. LambDynamicLights or Sodium Dynamic Lights take over when installed.

Sable and Create Aeronautics let you put lights on airships and other vehicles.

Sodium and Iris are supported, shader packs included: beams, lens glows and coloured light look the same with a pack as without one. Tested with Complementary Reimagined, BSL, MakeUp Ultra Fast, Solas, Bliss and Photon.

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Links

• Report bugs/suggest features: GitHub Issues
• Source code: GitHub