Emissive Textures

_images/icon16.webp

Emissive diamond ore.

File location

/assets/minecraft/optifine/emissive.properties

Emissive Textures add a second texture on top of a block which will render with no darkness and will be unaffected by lightmaps.

Important

They do not change the actual lighting around them. This does not affect actual lighting, just the pixel's brightness.

It is possible to add overlays to block textures, which will always rendered with full brightness. This can simulate light emitting parts of the textures.

_images/ores.webp

An example of emissive ores in a dark water cave.

_images/settings8.webp

Button and tooltip for the option, found in Video Settings ‣ Quality.

The emissive overlays have the same name as the base texture + custom suffix. For example:

  • bedrock.png: base texture

  • bedrock_e.png: emissive overlay

The emissive overlays are rendered in the same block layer as the base texture, except overlays for textures from layer SOLID, which are rendered as CUTOUT_MIPPED. The overlays can also be used for items, mobs and block entities.

Properties

suffix.emissive

Values: String
Optional
Default: _e

The suffix a file must have to be registered as emissive.

Armor trims

Emissive armor trim textures are defined by adding one of the following material suffixes to the trim base name:

  • amethyst

  • copper

  • diamond

  • diamond_darker

  • emerald

  • gold

  • gold_darker

  • iron

  • iron_darker

  • lapis

  • netherite

  • netherite_darker

  • quartz

  • redstone

For example (if suffix.emissive is _e):

coast_amethyst_e.png, host_iron_darker_e.png, dune_leggings_netherite_e.png

JSON schema

Note

Although this page is .properties based, it can be mapped to JSON.

{
	"$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
	"$id": "https://gitlab.com/whoatemybutter/optifinedocs/-/blob/master/schemas/emissive_textures.schema.json",
	"title": "Emissive Textures",
	"description": "Emissive Textures add a second texture on top of a block which will render with no darkness and will be unaffected by lightmaps.",
	"type": "object",
	"properties": {
		"suffix.emissive": {
			"type": "string",
			"default": "_e",
			"description": "The suffix a file must have to be registered as emissive."
		}
	},
	"additionalProperties": false
}
Assumes latest OptiFine version.
Updated to commit 8ed2130d.
Open source at https://gitlab.com/whoatemybutter/optifinedocs.