I have just started making a mod for minecraft, I learned how to make items and import custom png's and have gotten all of that to work. I have been searching around the code trying to find a way to make an item being held or in the inventory give off light around the player. I do have experience coding in java, but I am not well acquainted with the minecraft code.
(This is using mcp 5.6 with modloader in minecraft 1.1 with eclipse)