MV - Community Lighting MV & MZ

ImaginaryVillain · 2020-07-20T18:57:26+0900

Today I propose an experiment. For awhile now I've been editing and "improving" Terrax Lighting, which was originally released under the MIT License (as is Community Lighting, so it free to use across the board)... After awhile it is now thousands of lines different than the original. So rather than confusing it with Terrax Lighting by posting it in that thread with the same name, I've forked it to Community Lighting. So why call it Community Lighting? Well that's simple, and where the experiment comes in. Everybody is invited to edit this plugin (with the hopes of improving it). If you make any changes, please post your updated version of the plugin here along with your change notes. Then we the community will test your changes and see if they're better. If they are, I'll put your version of the plugin in the first post. Oh and don't forget to add yourself to the authors if you do (though don't delete anybody). The hope here is that by getting everybody involved, we will end up with the best possible lighting plugin... Or at the very least, if that fails you'll get whatever edited version I've done for my game at the time. Contributors: Terrax, iVillain, Aesica, Eliaquim, Alexandre, Nekohime1989, Snaphat Change Notes: Spoiler: Click Here 1.0 @ImaginaryVillain Rescoped all of the variables to no longer be global. Updated for PIXI 4 & 5 Removed the outdated Terrax ABS, Quasi ABS, and Mog Time stuff references. Added compatibility for Ultra Mode 7 Fixed the issue with the Lighting plugin needing to be in a specific order in the plugin list. The plugin is now roughly 800 lines shorter and much faster, at least in my testing so far. Not going to lie, I made some other changes... But wasn't noting them because I didn't know I was making this thread at the time. 1.01 @ImaginaryVillain var rnd = -Math.floor((Math.random() * 20) + 10); $gameMap.setPEmitterZ(this._eventId, rnd); Removed the "fix" for the plugin order list due to issues with other plugins. Fixed issue with Mog Character Particles giving a "Clamp" error. 1.015 @Aesica Organized the plugin parameters into logical sections Removed the redundant "Add to options" plugin parameter. It can be ommitted from the options menu by leaving "Options Menu Entry" blank Changed the casing in a few plugin parameter names to be more consistent (minor nitpick, I know) Added the option to use modern note tag syntax " " to avoid conflicts with other plugins that may also use event/map note tags. Those note tags currently break Terrax's tagless implementation Added better default day/night colors. These can also be changed in the plugin parameters now for easier customization Added a "night switch" which, if assigned to a switch, will set to true during night or false during day (which hours count as day and night are user-defined) Expanded the "Daynight" note tag in maps so you can also set the speed if desired: "Daynight 10" for the default speed, "Daynight 0" to stop time and use the current hour's tint in one go. "Daynight" by itself uses the current speed Fixed a bug where the "Daynight" tag wouldn't tint at all if the speed was 4999. Added "Tint daylight" plugin command which is essentially "Tint set [whatever the current hour's color is]." "Tint daylight" should be used instead of the "Daynight" map note tag if you plan on applying any manual tints on the map. (Daynight blocks the use of the tint command) Changed map note tag reading to happen only once per cycle instead of X times per cycle, where X is the number of events on the map (seriously why was it done that way!?) Replaced the word salad in the help section with (what I hope is) a clearer breakdown of each command/tag and how to use it. I hope I didn't leave anything out. Added a "version" property to Community.Lighting so other plugins can ask it what version it is. 1.016 @ImaginaryVillain Removed a strange debug system that ran twice per light per frame. Removed a speed test system. Restructured the code to use a switch statement and objects instead of a huge stack of Ifs. Removed assorted commented out code from the original plugin. 1.017 @Aesica Fixed a variable scoping issue introduced by the latest optimization pass. Added explanation how to set speeds via the daynight map note tag to the help section. 1.018 @Eliaquim 1. Stored the RegExp note tag into a variable for the code does not compile the RegExp every time he uses getTag() function. 2. Replace the plugin command switch statements with an array/object lookup table. 3. Optimized some for loops changing the way they are handled from this: for (let i = 0; i < tilearray.length; i++) to this: for (let i = 0, len = tilearray.length; i < len; i++) *I did not reverse the iterator order because I don't know how the plugin works, to be sure if the order matter or not. 4. Some minor changes to if statements that are redundants like: if(args[0] == 'on' || args[0] == 'ON') to if(args[0].toLowerCase() == 'on') 1.0185 @Eliaquim…

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ImaginaryVillain

#781 Dec 7, 2021, 01:36 AM Source

Galkamik said:
Thank you! I'm assuming I'll find the new script in the Github link?
The main link should work now.
Galkamik

#782 Dec 7, 2021, 12:30 PM Source

I replaced the plug-in and the light active radius works just like it did for MV!
Thank you!

I've run into a problem with the battle tint not displaying when set to between.
But I've managed to solve it by comparing the scrip from the previous version.
Merryjest

#783 Dec 11, 2021, 07:38 PM Source

Oh boy... I think the MZ update today broke the lighting plugin- is anyone experiencing the same? Nothing lighting-related seems to be working for me.
Fortunastreet

#784 Dec 11, 2021, 08:43 PM Source

Maus Merryjest said:
Oh boy... I think the MZ update today broke the lighting plugin- is anyone experiencing the same? Nothing lighting-related seems to be working for me.

I tested the latest version of the plugin with MZ 1.4.0 right now, but I didn't see anything strange. Did you do anything else strange recently?
Merryjest

#785 Dec 11, 2021, 08:56 PM Source

Alexandre said:
I tested the latest version of the plugin with MZ 1.4.0 right now, but I didn't see anything strange. Did you do anything else strange recently?
No, nothing at all- today was the first day I've picked up the project to work on since the second week of the kickstarter, and it was working then (I took several screen caps, some of them were in night-lit screens). This is very strange. I shall poke around and see what might have happened.
Fortunastreet

#786 Dec 11, 2021, 09:08 PM Source

Maus Merryjest said:
No, nothing at all- today was the first day I've picked up the project to work on since the second week of the kickstarter, and it was working then (I took several screen caps, some of them were in night-lit screens). This is very strange. I shall poke around and see what might have happened.

If you press F8 in game to open the console, is there any error there?
Merryjest

#787 Dec 11, 2021, 09:49 PM Source

Alexandre said:
If you press F8 in game to open the console, is there any error there?
No errors present. What's interesting is that I disabled all other plugins except this one and ran my project, and I had the same effect: no lighting anywhere.
Fortunastreet

#788 Dec 11, 2021, 10:44 PM Source

Possibilities:
-You turned off the 'Lighting effect' option. So no lights are present.
-The current tint is '#FFFFFF' (no darkness at all)
-The script has been desactived via plugin command.
-You actived the plugin parameter to require a light event to show the light effects but on the map you test there is no light events.
Merryjest

#789 Dec 12, 2021, 12:04 AM Source

Alexandre said:
Possibilities:
-You turned off the 'Lighting effect' option. So no lights are present.
-The current tint is '#FFFFFF' (no darkness at all)
-The script has been desactived via plugin command.
-You actived the plugin parameter to require a light event to show the light effects but on the map you test there is no light events.
That's a negative on all of those, and I made sure to check. Tints are happening, as you can see with the screenshot below

however, the lighting effects aren't. Map tags are enabled, <cl: Daynight 68> is it, the map is set to midnight and the fire is set to be <cl: fire 150 #ff8800 b15 night>- but the lighting effects aren't working. I ran an event that advanced time faster and the transition from day to nighttime tints are working just fine, but no lights. This is happening when this is the sole plugin left active as well as when sharing the stage with others.
Fortunastreet

#790 Dec 12, 2021, 12:45 AM Source

I created the 'minimum project' with your settings, and I have the expected result.

Can I see your plugin settings? May be you did something weird like having 'Lights Active Radius' at 1.
Merryjest

#791 Dec 12, 2021, 05:57 AM Source

Alexandre said:
I created the 'minimum project' with your settings, and I have the expected result.

View attachment 209451

Alexandre said:
Can I see your plugin settings? May be you did something weird like having 'Lights Active Radius' at 1.

I am going to re-download the plugin and re-install it one more time, just in case.

UPDATE: That seems to have done it. Exact same settings, but on a new download and inclusion of the plugin. I have no idea why this would have happened.
Fortunastreet

#792 Dec 12, 2021, 01:07 PM Source

In all seriousness, glad to see it's solved itself. May be you were using some weird old version of the plugin, I will never know.

PS: You don't need such a huge Lightmask Padding, even for your bigger resolution, 100 should be more than enough.
ShadowDragon

#793 Dec 12, 2021, 01:58 PM Source

is theDEMO file removed? while I only see the folder but not the zip?
so there is no download for the demo unless I miss something?

can you direct the link to the demo?
Fortunastreet

#794 Dec 12, 2021, 02:05 PM Source

ShadowDragon said:
is theDEMO file removed? while I only see the folder but not the zip?
so there is no download for the demo unless I miss something?

can you direct the link to the demo?

There are still there, you need to have a look at the releases: https://github.com/ImaginaryVillain/community_lights/releases

However, the last release was made a while back,
so you should put in it the latest version of the plugin.
ShadowDragon

#795 Dec 12, 2021, 05:37 PM Source

I used MV, but the main link is to JS and folder DEMO to MV/MZ.
but I downloaded the masterList which included MV/MZ demo,
not sure why the zip is linked though.
Fortunastreet

#796 Dec 12, 2021, 05:39 PM Source

Sorry, I gived the link to the MZ demo, here is the one to both releases: https://github.com/ImaginaryVillain/community_lights/releases

EDIT: Actually, I don't get what you are asking, can you explain it again more clearly?
ShadowDragon

#797 Dec 12, 2021, 08:18 PM Source

top image is the DEMO folder where it should be the ZIP to down, but there is none.
download the files seperately takes to much town.

the bottom image is the masterlist, which has code, download ZIP which download
this enter list (MV,MZ Demo and the rest of the items in it.

wasn't there ZIP download when you click the folder? or where did it go?
Fortunastreet

#798 Dec 12, 2021, 10:18 PM Source

They are there. You just have to update the script to its latest version.
ShadowDragon

#799 Dec 13, 2021, 10:42 AM Source

I lost the demo, so I wanted to get everything :)
but that link when rechecking only goes to MZ version,
so the MV version isn't included.

but I got the Demo when I downloaded teh master List,
included the JS file and MV demo, I deleted the rest.

but I keep that part in mind, while github seems to be changed too.
Fortunastreet

#800 Dec 13, 2021, 12:58 PM Source

To see the MV version, click on the '+1 release' button.