morelights (GitHub, ContentDB) has several very nice lighting nodes.
This add-on mod allows to turn all light nodes from morelights off or to dim them.
morelights already provides sensible light level variations for the light nodes.
But there is no way to get two lights of the same design with different light level.
This mod adds a dim variant and an off variant to every design.
Light levels can be changed by right-clicking light nodes with the bulb item from morelights (default configuration).
morelights_dim gives you more flexibility to build different lighting sceneries.
You can emphasize a certain area by just dimming the other lights:
The dimmed and off nodes use darkened textures (in addition to emitting less light), so you can imitate broken neon tubes:
You can turn the lights off when going to bed:
If you turn the oil lamp from morelights_vintage off, the animated flame is hidden:
The functionality of dimming light nodes, and cycling through them on right-click, is exposed in morelights_dim/api.lua.
In short, you first register the textures which shall be darkened on dimmed nodes with morelights_dim.register_texture_for_dimming, and then call morelights_dim.register_dim_variants with a node name.
With morelights_dim.register_light_level_tool, you can register additional tools which can be used with right-click to change the light level. (These tools are global, not per node.)
If you want to make further modifications to the node definitions, you can use morelights_dim.make_dim_variants, which returns the node definitions which would be registered by morelights_dim.register_dim_variants otherwise.
You can do that, for example, to make more additional variants than dim and off.
The registered nodes have a field _morelights_dim_next_variant, which holds the name of the node which you get on right-click.
This field is used by the on_rightclick handler, which means you can add more variants, or change the node names, by changing this field.
The dim and off variant will be registered :<original_mod>:<original_node>_morelights_dim_dimmed and :<original_mod>:<original_node>_morelights_dim_off.
This mod is organized as modpack, with the mod morelights_dim providing the functionality and API.
The mods morelights_dim_morelights_extras, morelights_dim_morelights_modern, and morelights_dim_morelights_vintage depend on morelights_dim and the respective morelights_... mod, and call the API for the respective light nodes.
The functionality of this mod was requested by myself while playing on the LinuxForks server, because light bleeded too much through my houses’ walls and ceilings.
First, I submitted a pull request to the original morelights.
That pull request used crafting recipes to get dimmed variants, which added too much complexity to the intentionally lightweight morelights.
The maintainer of morelights suggested to use right-click instead of crafting recipes, and to provide the functionality in a fork instead.
I liked the right-click idea, decided to make this add-on mod, and provide off variants too.
This mod is intended to be installed from Minetest’s own content manager, ContentDB.
You can also clone the repository to your mods folder.
You will need to disable the “LICENSES” and “screenshots” mods, if your Minetest can not figure out that these aren’t mods.
The mod is licensed as CC0-1.0 and MIT.
(This means that this modpack may be merged to morelights at will.
I am perfectly fine with that.)
Screenshots depict artwork from other Minetest mods, and are licensed as CC-BY-SA-4.0.
The source code is hosted at https://invent.kde.org/davidhurka/doxy_morelights_dim. Problems should be reported at https://invent.kde.org/davidhurka/doxy_morelights_dim/issues.