There's now a reasonably functional internal development build of the game with the new lighting system! As explained a couple of blogs ago, Colony Survival has two lighting values: one for direct lighting and one for ambient lighting. These values change throughout the day - to make sure that sunrises aren't as bright as the middle of the day. The ambient lighting affects everythings in the shadows. These all had the exact same shade of darkness, whether it was the interior of a house or a deep mine. And this also means that you could track the day/night cycle while in that deep mine: the ambient lighting would pretty obviously change during the day. The new flexible system analyzes your surroundings and tries to choose an appropriate value based on that. This means that mines are finally properly dark!
Choosing the right values is tremendously difficult. We've got to rebalance the strength of direct lighting with the flexible ambient lighting nd eye adaptation. We don't want to change the look of the game too much, but of course we'll improve things whenever that's possible. I feel like sunrises and sunsets have become a bit 'softer' - something I mostly like and slightly dislike.
Bloom has been reduced. This is something that got quite a lot of complaints as well, with things like sand being very bright. I actually kind of liked that, so we'll probably rebalance it a some more in the coming days. Together with the floodfill torches/lanterns, this is quite a big change to the lighting system. Performance has been optimized a lot. Update 0.7.2 is nearly ready for release, but we'd still like to do some minor UI improvements before we release it.
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