[Solved] Multiple lights in a cave

[Lycosa]

Hi all,
I know this has been discussed before and I did find some other threads, but I didn`t find an answer to this question:
How do I create a pitch black screen with a light around the player (no problem so far) AND lights around some lamps, so that the player can see everything inside his own light radius and everything around the lamps, but nothing else?

 

[Mundane]

A script by SephirothSpawn will do the trick. I don't know if there are any working links to it though. Do some searching.

 

[Lycosa]

This one here?
http://www.rmxp.org/forums/index.php?topic=12143.0

Kraft says that it`s very laggy when there are more than 2 or 3 events with light and the circles have a hard edge...
And the link to the demo further down doesn`t work any more.

I can`t understand that there is no event based solution to this problem - would be much easier in my opinion.

 

[seven]

There is an event based solution.
Check out Angelman's Light Tutorial. :thumb:

 

[Zekallinos]

If you really have some times, this can make even nicer effects since it takes into account walls, sun light from windows and all of that. Not convinient when you edit your map though.

http://www.rmxp.org/forums/index.php?topic=15030.0

 

[Lycosa]

Thanks you two, but I already had a look at Angelman`s tutorials and I think his methods don`t work with a pitch black screen. And Calibre`s Tutorial does only work for lights that don`t move, but I have a light that moves (around the player).
So sorry, both don`t work for me...

 

[Fertility]

I wanted something very similar too, but I couldn't find the answer either. We may have to wait for someone to create a unique script for it.

 

[HarryE]

Hmm... I'm not sure if this will work, but TRY messing around with the "Add" blending techniques on the sprites around the lamps and players. Can't guaruntee it'll work, though.

 

[Lycosa]

I did, but I didn`t manage to find a solution...
But I found something else: You can tint the screen very dark, so that you don`t really see anything, and the show an animation on the player. It´s not the perfect solution, but it works quite well.

 

[Brewmeister]

Ok, I just tried this out, and it looks good.

Your 'spotlight' that follows the player is a solid black rectangle (2x size of screen) with a transparent center.
You have a parallel process that makes it follow the player.
Each place you have a stationary light, capture a screen image of that spot, and edit the image to fade out the edges, making an
opaque center & transparent edges.
Display these as pictures above the spotlight image.

This works nice on a 15x20 tile map. If your map is bigger, you'll need to add event commands to your parallel event to move the stationary pictures when the map moves as well.

TTFN

 

[Lycosa]

Correct me when I´m wrong, but when you have an opaque picture, you can`t see through the picture and therefor can`t see the map. So you can`t see any moving events (e.g. enemies) in the light... And that would be what I need.

 

[Beran]

Then give it a 0, or very low opacity

 

[Lycosa]

How do you do that? I thought there only were two things you can set in the RPG Maker: One transparent and transculent colour...

Anyway, if you make it transparent or translucent, the picture below (the black edge) will shine through again.

 

[Beran]

That's horribly true lol...