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[DustyDrake]

Huh.
I liked the previous one better (wonder why, heh.), but that seems to make more sense with moonman's flat style.

[rek]

Update: Did a few adjustments to the lighting.

MUCH better! All the shading was making everything so busy and dark.

[eigenbom]

Yeh I'm really struggling with the lighting, here's some more pics. There's always some situations where the lighting looks a bit funny, but I think I'll finish this up next week and then move on to more interesting world generation, adding block types, etc. I can always come back to it later.

[jmcmorris]

Nice lighting. What was the reason for simplifying the shadows? It looks like there are less steps to pure darkness. Lighting is definitely a tricky beast. Good luck with it!

[eigenbom]

I didn't like having multiple parallel bands of shading, it made it look a bit 3d I guess. And I'm trying, trying to adhere to a minimalist aesthetic, whether I'm succeeding or not, I don't know .. :| And thx!

[sk2k]

Oh, i like to look of that game. Somehow the graphic style reminds me of the old game Below the Root.

Can't wait to try it.

[happymonster]

I think I prefer it without the lighting. 

[eyeliner]

Is that lighting of a kind of "fog of war"? If it is a "fog of war", you'd better make that possible to remove entirely by exploring.

I have an OCD that makes me want to remove every single bit of black spots from the map. I hate it when I can't.

[eigenbom]

Is that lighting of a kind of "fog of war"? If it is a "fog of war", you'd better make that possible to remove entirely by exploring.

It's just lighting at the moment, it's not based on what is visible, but rather the shortest distance of a block to an empty 'light' block.

I have an OCD that makes me want to remove every single bit of black spots from the map. I hate it when I can't.

I know what you mean.

@happymonster, I prefer no lighting when moonman is above ground, and lighting when he is below ground. But I can't resolve this inconsistency.

[Belimoth]

Player-placed blocks are always lit? Some scenarios have lighting and some don't? Differentiate between natural and artificial light to seperate above- and below-ground regions?

[rek]

Yeh I'm really struggling with the lighting, here's some more pics. There's always some situations where the lighting looks a bit funny, but I think I'll finish this up next week and then move on to more interesting world generation, adding block types, etc. I can always come back to it later.

That looks pretty hinky, but fixable. Maybe slightly randomize (by a block or two) how deep light penetrates, and don't draw shadows for areas less than X blocks wide... Anyway, you'll find a solution.

[Ocid]

I think the more simplified lighting looks best for what you've shown but I might also be with happymonster on this one in that I like it aswell without the lighting.

[GCshepard]

I'd say try having the lighting levels decrease twice as fast on the foreground. That would get rid of the problem that I see most in the castle screenshot.

[eigenbom]

@belimoth, some good ideas, thx!

the for the comments guys, the image I showed is probably one of the worser case scenarios, @rek randomising the energy attenuation is a good idea, and would break up the straight lines at least.

@gcshepard, doing that would produce a similar result for castles with thinner walls.

[happymonster]

For the lighting, I'd say it works better with the inter-block shading rather than the whole block approach. It looks a tricky problem though..