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• Are there any good lighting mods with rays, reflections, shadows from artificial light(since those aren't made in 5.6.0) and rays? I saw a cool demonstration of rays being worked on in a sec build or something.
  1 project | /r/Minetest | 15 Sep 2022

  There is a new render pipeline in the workings (I actually think that the PR got merged earlier) which should support post-processing, which may lead to a light rays mod. I am not completely sure about the shadows from artificial light, because the way the shadows work right now doesn't support that. It uses a sort of sky-oriented shadow map to draw the shadows, and it would be much harder to update that for every light-based node on the map. Reflections and waving water have been something that the community has wanted for years, and probably years to come. There was a video that demonstrated a real-time water reflection shader, to which the GitHub link I believe is here. So water is very possible, it just needs to be implemented properly.