Sodium Shadowy Path Blocks (SSPB)
Sodium Shadowy Path Blocks (or SSPB for short) is an addon to Sodium that reintroduces vanilla-like smooth lighting to non-fluid non-full blocks (e.g. dirt paths and how they have dark shading when directly next to a full block), as Sodium removes this (or rather, fixes this, as it's technically a bug).
This was mainly made because I liked the shadowyness of the vanilla dirt paths, hence the name.
This lighting is not exactly the same as vanilla, only vanilla-like, as the way I'm doing this is entirely based on Sodium's smooth lighting code.
Requires Sodium (duh) and only has an effect with smooth lighting enabled.
Not associated with Sodium or CaffeineMC.
Options
- Shadowyness: How strong these "bugged" shadows are from 0-100%. Defaults to 85%.
- Only affect path blocks: This lighting "bug" (both in vanilla and this mod) also affects other non-full blocks, such as farmland, slabs, stairs, fences, etc. Turn this setting on to only apply the "bugged" lighting to path blocks, and use sodium's fixed lighting for everything else. Defaults to off.
Incompatibilities
- LambdaBetterGrass - Dirt paths do not become shadowy when LambdaBetterGrass is installed. The lighting changes, however, still work on other blocks, and the game will still launch. I don't think this is possible to fix due to technical reasons.
- IF YOU STILL WANT SHADOWY PATH BLOCKS WITH LAMBDABETTERGRASS AND SODIUM: Go to .minecraft/config/indium-renderer.properties and change "ambient-occlusion-mode=auto" to "ambient-occlusion-mode=hybrid". You will no longer need SSPB after this unless you still want the lighting changes for blocks other than path blocks. Note that if you keep SSPB installed, the shadowyness option will still have no effect on path blocks. The shading for path blocks will look like the vanilla screenshots below, rather than the SSPB screenshots, regardless of whether or not SSPB is installed.
Screenshots/Comparisons (using all default options)
Comparison on a fancy path (and also some bamboo)
Comparison on a simple path (and also some fences)