Unlike standard Minecraft lighting, Tint Shaders uses path-traced light bounces to make both indoor and outdoor spaces look natural. Light interacts with nearby surfaces instead of simply brightening blocks in a flat grid, which changes how you place windows and light sources inside a base.
Letting Outdoor Light Bounce Inside
1. Cut windows, skylights, or open archways along walls that face direct sunlight.
2. Place brighter vanilla blocks—such as quartz, birch planks, sandstone, or white concrete—on floors and interior walls where sunlight lands to help bounced light fill the room naturally.
3. Step back from the opening and check shaded corners; path-traced bounces soften the transition between sunlit floors and dim interiors while maintaining clean vanilla-style shadows.
Placing Indirect Indoor Light Sources
Because light bounces off surrounding geometry, you do not need to line every floor with exposed torches to make an interior readable:
- Tuck lanterns, glowstone, or sea lanterns into ceiling recesses, behind stair trim, or inside wall alcoves to spread soft, bounced illumination across the room.
- Press
F3in survival mode to verify that darker-looking corners still meet vanilla mob-spawning light thresholds, since semi-realistic shader shading can look brighter or darker than raw block light values.