SmoothMaps

A Minecraft mod to provide smooth lighting and performance improvements for framed maps, paintings and rails.

Respects your smooth lighting setting and won't cause a noticeable performance hit.

Features

• Fast smooth lighting for framed maps
• Fast smooth lighting for paintings
• Enables smooth block lighting for rails
• Improved painting performance by removing interior faces
• Improved server-side map rendering performance (up to 60% faster)
• Reduced GPU bandwidth overhead for map rendering (partial texture updates)

!Picture of Toby in Minecraft maps, showing the smooth lighting.