What's been added since the plugin was first released:
- Spritesheet animations for lighting
- Custom animation settings for lighting (animated lights without using images)
- Light culling and various optimisations
- PNG-based lights + settings-based lights
- Custom directional offsets (for flashlights and such)
- Light rotations and angle wideness
(The help file has more detailed instructions, make sure to check it out!)
Spoiler: GIFs
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Hey there!
I've been working for a while now on a new lighting plugin for both MV and MZ.
My reason for starting down this road was due to this post from about a month ago: MV - Khas UltraLighting Remake for Commercial Purposes
Hey everyone, So a little introduction. Khas has left the rpg maker scene entirely and has stopped making and supporting his javascripts. There is no response on any of his available contact links. This makes it so that nobody can get a commercial license for some of his scripts that require...
forums.rpgmakerweb.com
I've researched the most efficient 2D-RTS lighting systems, and have decided to base mine on a pure-hardware (GPU) implementation.
In its current state, without culling (meaning that for now every light in the scene is being rendered/updated, regardless of whether it's even on the screen or not), the game can handle ~650 lights (with shadows) in one scene without its fps dropping.
If you could try it out, and leave your thoughts down in a reply below, I would really appreciate it! My goal is to make a plugin that is more diverse than khas' while still being as optimized as possible.
Plugin commands (MV) (no need for MZ plugin command instructions):
dae_light setambientlight r g b
Sets the current ambient light to the specified color.
r, g and b are numbers from 0 to 255 that represent an rgb color.
Example: dae_light setambientlight 0 20 0
THE REST OF THE PLUGIN COMMANDS ARE THE SAME AS THE EVENT COMMENTS, BUT WITHOUT "[" AND "]"
Event comments (run whenever event page changes):
[dae_light addlight uniqueID type]
Adds a new light and sets its position to that of the event. Light will follow the event wherever it goes
uniqueID can be either "null" or any word (letters, numbers and underscore). If set to null, the light will not be stored as a unique light (meaning that it won't be designable by other commands / comments)
type must be one of the light types from the plugin parameters. For example, "halogen". New light types can be created in the plugin parameters.
Example: [dae_light addlight halo2 halogen]
[dae_light setoffset uniqueID offsetX offsetY]
Sets a manual offset for the designed light, if it exists.
Angle is between 0 (no light) and 360 (full light)
Example: an angle of 180 will create a semi-circle light
[dae_light setintensity uniqueID intensity]
Sets the intensity of the light.
Intensity is between 0 (no light) to 200 (bright light).
For some reason, the MZ plugin can't handle a single intense light, but works fine with multiple lights added together. Until this is fixed, you can overlap multiple lights together to create a bright light.
[dae_light setrotation/f uniqueID rotation]
Sets how much the light rotates every frame.
Rotation is any number, negative or positive, and with decimals allowed.
Map notes:
<dae_light off> -- Disables lighting for that map
<dae_light shadowpicture picture_name> -- Uses the given picture as a shadow map for that map. The picture must be in the "img/shadows/" folder.
Shadow maps can be easily created by saving a picture of a map (right-click on map -> save), going to a picture editor (I used piskelapp.com), and drawing black in a new layer wherever you want shadows to be.
There is no current customization for RegionIDs (it is easily implementable, just wanted to get the demo out first), but you can currently use the regionID 17 to create a blue light, and regionIDs 4, 6 and 7 to create shadows. (4: full block shadow, 6: left wall shadow, 7: right wall shadow)
Changelog:
v 1.5
Added support for light spritesheet animations.
Added support for light custom animations (settings-based)
Implemented customisability for Region Shadows and Region Lights.
Implemented various performance optimisations.
Implemented basic light-culling.
v1.3
Added support for custom images for lights! (like khas' plugin)
Added customisability support for custom-image lights (resizing, color tinting, + everything else)
Added direction-based custom offset option for lights, useful when making flashlights