[MC-206] lighting bug (chests, signs, minecarts, skin)

Illumination of minecarts, chests and signs is not perfect. But this "bug" is there since I started play Minecraft (1.8.3 beta).

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MC-226 Flickering Items Resolved

MC-559 Something to do with the lighting. Resolved

MC-728 Sign Blackening (Lighting Problem?) 1.3.2 and 1.4.2 Resolved

MC-1189 Chest become dark Resolved

MC-1411 lighting errors for charaters hand and for chests Resolved

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relates to 1

MC-3084 Models improperly shaded at certain angles. Resolved

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Cloudy (Aaron Mills) 2012-10-24T21:21:51Z

What graphics card are you using?

Quique Arokip 2012-10-25T09:50:59Z

On my old PC is Intel(R) 82945G Express Chipset Family graphic card. But it happens on new PC too. (I cannot find out its graphic card now). It happens on my friend's PC too. I am used to it

BaineWolf 2012-10-30T13:48:47Z

This may be related, I noticed mushrooms were lit in a dark cave

Ethan Neumann 2012-10-31T18:05:55Z

I've had this problem too ever since beta 1.8. Really annoying. I have an Intel HD Graphics card.

Austiin glan 2012-10-31T21:58:30Z

yea i have this. they need to fix this because i dont see any reason why a signs,chests,minecarts and even for me you characters hand has to do this but everything els is fine. must have to be a bug not because of your specs because i dont see why chests the others are the only ones that get affected because of new lighting and not everything els.

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BaineWolf 2012-11-02T15:22:22Z

Also realized this is happening in Vista for me

Pixelgraph 2012-11-07T06:02:18Z

Confirmed on my Windows Vista laptop with an Intel integrated graphics card.

Mustek 2012-11-23T12:38:55Z

Please confirm that this is still happening in the latest version.

Dean Baset 2013-01-07T03:07:37Z

I can confirm in 2013, you can see it in this video. I am using mods in this video, but it happens in vanilla, too. http://youtu.be/MvwszBZneh8?t=4m33s

Yaroslav Sterkhov 2013-01-09T10:02:10Z

Some say that this happening only on slow computers or some certain settings. Actually wrong. It's VISIBLE on slow computers, if fps is below 20-25... but actually happens all the time. On new, powerful computer with GTX 5xx video and multi-core GPU minecraft able to render 200+ frames per second.. frame on which "darkness happens" just becomes lost and overwritten in buffer before appears on screen.
(P.S. VSyncn switched on doesn't seem affect FPS at all for me. Environment x64 Win 7, latest JRE x64, GTX560, CPU Core i7-3960X. FPS: 290-480 with unmodded client, highest settings and draw distance, VSync on)

Just today I spotted some connectionbetween two facts and two bugs which haunts people:
Since 1.3.6 on slow machine this effect causes client to disconnect from server with famous error "Software caused connection abort: recv failed".
On my main rig (specs) above I unable to log in into chunks near those areas,where effect was caused by significant amount of objects. After log in, I get "End of stream" error during chunk loading. Few seconds before disconnect happens, I'm able to move away from offending area.. If I move far enough, next login would be succeful. Not moving aty all results in endless "End of stream". I tried to use Magic Launcher to get log results "Software caused connection abort: recv failed" instead.
It's hard to track this, as first I though that "dangerous" area is area where I stayed longer, but of course I was putting down chest, I was thinking that chunks getting broke somehow, but it repeast over and over in new chunks, since Adventure update.. Most players have connection issues too, as random recv failures, but I'mm only one who got big latency (230ms) just because my geographic position.
Quite new "base" ereceted by other player in one day, with lots of said entities created new large area with such issue. I should double check correlation be
There is certain difference in stability between x32 and x64 versions, between 6u24 and 6u25 JRE (6u24 much more stable), and between i7 and Core2 Duo CPUs. I suspect, that issue causes some problem with thread synchronisation, GC, mutexes or semaphores.

Yaroslav Sterkhov 2013-01-09T10:03:57Z

Oh, forgot to add.. same "slow" hardware, linux, no lighting issue, no disconnects. Would try that on fast one next weekend, just for science

Wolfe Peavley 2013-03-02T22:27:21Z

This still happens in the latest snapshot, 13w09c.

Pedro M. Zamboni 2013-04-26T17:49:50Z

this is so annoying... why the hell this happen?

fake fakes 2013-05-01T14:05:10Z

Happens to the arm on my skin sometimes in 13w17a

BoxFigs 2013-06-18T18:38:09Z

I've noticed this happening on chests, signs and the player's hand in first person view.
They are either too dark in a light environment or too light in a dark environment. Sometimes the lighting changes when you move around.
With chests, sometimes it's just the lid that's not lit correctly.

I have a screenshot of all three at once. I'm going to attach it.

Pixelgraph 2013-06-19T04:26:21Z

I have discovered on my Intel GMA 950, that this graphical glitch often occurs when facing a downward position. When looking up, the entities appear light, when looking down, the entities appear dark.

kumasasa 2013-08-02T07:50:39Z

@all still having this issue:
Please update your graphics card drivers following these instructions: Updating Graphics Card Drivers.

Do not rely on automatic searches for driver updates.
Do not use Windows Update or Device Manager - Microsoft doesn't install OpenGL, they promote DirectX.
If you know the brand and type of your graphics card, go to the links provided above and search manually for the most recent driver for your card. The automatic detection tools of the card manufacturers is not recommended.

Ezekiel 2013-10-21T23:10:57Z

Is this still a concern in the latest Minecraft version 13w43a? If so, please update the affected versions in order to best aid Mojang ensuring bugs are still valid in the latest releases/pre-releases.

Timothee Knobloch 2013-10-22T13:31:09Z

@ Ezekiel.

Yes, currently on 13w43a.

I 've MBA mid-2012, HD 4000, java 6 apple.

Cheers

Ezekiel 2013-10-22T13:49:39Z

I have reason to believe it's an issue with the MBA cards.

Ezekiel 2014-01-16T00:07:22Z

Timothee, does updating to 10.9 (Mavericks) fix this issue?

Ethan Neumann 2014-06-30T15:30:30Z

Downgrading my graphics card software has fixed this issue

kumasasa 2014-06-30T18:30:45Z

@unknown Downgrading from what to what version ?

Ethan Neumann 2014-06-30T21:40:59Z

It was a optional update for my Intel HD Graphics Display. I just uninstalled the latest one and it fixed the lighting issue for me. This might only work for people with Intel HD Graphic cards though. Here is what it looks like in Windows Update: http://snag.gy/Sg6UC.jpg

EDIT: I dont know how to look at the version of the update.

BoxFigs 2014-06-30T21:58:05Z

You know, I don't think I've had this bug since I got my new laptop. It has a NVIDIA GT 755M graphics card.

I don't know what my old laptop had, but it was probably an Intel one. Whatever it was, it wasn't very good.

kumasasa 2014-06-30T22:11:10Z

@unknown, thanks.

Itouch2 2014-08-19T20:39:13Z

Is this still an issue in the latest 1.8 snapshot ?

kumasasa 2014-11-24T18:59:12Z

Reopened (MC-74658)

kumasasa 2015-12-06T22:17:41Z

Is this still an issue in the current Minecraft Snapshot 15w49b or later? If so, please update the affected versions in order to best aid Mojang ensuring bugs are still valid in the latest releases/pre-releases.

user-f2760 2016-03-17T15:09:32Z

No response for a number of months.

Swekob 2019-11-24T07:50:17Z

That issue may be MC-160324.

gregopeck 2019-11-24T21:38:19Z

Thanks Swekob. I found what you were referring to. In that post, a moderator commented that it relates to another ticket, which is labeled as "Works As Intended," so I deleted my previous comment here. Thanks for helping by pointing me in the right direction. I appreciate it.