True Real Lighting is a lighting-only visual polish mod for Factorio 2.0 / Space Age.
It makes nights darker and more atmospheric, improves vanilla lamp warmth, and adds believable machine-specific hotspot lighting to active factory buildings. Furnaces, boilers, foundries, refineries, chemical plants, labs, power buildings and Space Age machines,
Features:
- Darker, cleaner nights
- Warm natural lamp lighting
- Machine-specific working glow
- Furnace, boiler, foundry and refinery hotspot tuning
- Space Age machine lighting support
- Small detail lights for infrastructure
- Night light boost for better contrast
- No shadows
- No smoke
- No haze
- No gameplay or recipe changes
This is designed to stay close to Factorio’s vanilla style while making the factory feel more cinematic and alive at night.
What i use
Machine and factory glow: ON
Small detail lights: ON
Hotspot glow strength: 1.20 – 1.30
Small detail light strength: 0.65 – 0.75
Night light boost: ON
AAA glow spread: 0.85 – 0.95
Idle ember glow: OFF
Small light spill around hot parts: ON
Real dark nights: ON
AAA natural colour grade: ON
Night brightness: 0.040 – 0.050
Natural warm lamps: ON
Naturalise built-in lights: ON
