Lighting and Time Editor - Continued!

Feelzor · 2017-10-30T04:26:44+0900

Lighting and Time Editor v1.7.4 FeelZoR - Originally created by Level No Matter Free to Use for both Commercial and Non-Commercial projects. Credits not required but highly appreciated: do not hesitate to also credit Level No Matter (aka Sebastián Cámara). You can find a more in-depth version of the TOS here. Introduction Seeing from the old post that the plugin had some bugs that needed to be solved and the original author seems to have abandoned it, I decided to continue it and share it with you. This is a plugin that implements a Time System and a Lighting Editor (in game or with events). You can make a lot of incredible light places with this plugin, and it can give a new dimension to your game! Features Possibility to enable or disable the Time System. Possibility to change time whenever you want with simple commands. Possibility to set a specific Tint into a map by putting a single line in the Notes: the Time System will be ignored. Possibility to add lights by using the editor in game or with events. Screenshots This video has not been updated: it is the same than the one on the original post: How to Use To install the plugin: Download the plugin on the given link and click the "Clone or Download" button, then simply click "Download ZIP". Extract the contents of the img folder into the img folder of your project. Extract the contents of the js folder into the js folder of your project. The file ".gitattributes" is not useful for you, you can delete it. Enable the plugins using this order: LNM_GameEditorCore.js LNM_GameTime.js LNM_LightingTool.js To add a light, you have two ways of doing so: Using the In Game Editor: Press TAB and then press over the lamp icon. Then select the type of light you want to add. You can drag and edit your properties at any time.Adding default lights from events: You can create default lights by simply typing Torch, Bonfire or Ambient in the field “Note”. Adding custom lights from events: Simply create an event and then in the field “Note” add the following line: Light(filename, scale, hue, alpha).addPulse(pulseMin, pulseMax, pulseSpeed).addFlick(flickIntensity, flickSpeed) Filename: (string) Sprite used for the light, located in img/lights/ Scale: (float) Scales the sprite. (1.0 = 100%, 0.5 = 50%, ...) Hue: (integer) Tint scale for colors from 0 to 359. For more information visit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:HueScale.svg Alpha: (float) Transparency of the light, from 0.1 to 1.0 pulseMin: (float) Minimum scaling for pulse animation pulseMax: (float) Maximum scaling for pulse animation pulseSpeed: (integer) Speed for pulse animation flickIntensity: (integer) Intensity for flick animation flickSpeed: (integer) Speed for flick animation You can set the default power status to off by simply adding .turnOff() at the end of the line. Examples: Light(default, 5.0, 28, 1.0) - These are the settings used for Ambient lights. Light(default, 1.0,15, 1.0).addPulse(0.98, 1.02, 7).addFlick(1, 3) - These are the settings used for Torch lights. Light(default, 1.3, 28, 1.0).addPulse(1.1, 1.3, 15).addFlick(1, 3) - These are the settings used for Bonfire lights. Adding custom lights to enemies: For battles, you may want enemies to hold a light. Simply do so by writing in the notes part . Just replace yourLight with the same pattern than for event lights. Examples: Using the Player Torch: You can activate or deactivate it using the switch set in the Plugin Manager. Default switch is #0001. You can also change it to use 4 different directions, like so: From the Plugin Manager, set the "Player Torch 4 Directions" parameter to true. Note the value of the "Player Torch Filename" parameter. Create 4 different files, all starting with the name set in the "Player Torch Filename" parameter, each followed by either "_2", "_4", "_6" or "_8". These will be for respectively Down, Left, Right and Up directions (same as the arrows on a numpad, if it can help). All these files must have the .png extension and should be located in the img/lights/ folder. For example, if you want to use the default image files provided with the plugin, set the "Player Torch 4 Directions" parameter to true and the "Player Torch Filename" parameter to "player_torch" (without the quotes). Run the game and see what it does!Light System commands: For the following commands, light_id is the id of the light. It can be found in the In-Game editor on the top right corner of the screen. For event lights, the id starts with an e and is followed by the id of the event (without the first 0). For example, the light for event 0042 will have id e42. You can also select multiple ids. Specifying a-b as an id with a and b being integers will select all lights from a to b, inclusive. To select a range of event lights, just specify ea-b, with a and b being integers. Non-existing lights ids will be ignored without any warning. You can specify a list of…

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definite_lee

#181 Dec 12, 2018, 06:28 PM Source

What are the note tags to put in a specific tint for a map?

Discordian

#182 Dec 18, 2018, 02:22 AM Source

Hey, I edited LNM_GameEditorCore.js to add in an option to disable "tab" functionality. Is there another way to do this? If not I recommend adding it, it's really easy:

Code:

 * @param Enabled
 * @desc Enables or disables "tab" functionality.
 * Set this to false before release.
 * @default true

Code:

GameEditor.TOOLS.Enabled = JSON.parse(GameEditor.Parameters["Enabled"] || false);

Code:

//-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
// Graphics._onKeyDown
//
// Toggle the editor by pressing Tab.

Graphics._callEditor_onKeyDown = Graphics._onKeyDown;
Graphics._onKeyDown = function(event) {
    if (GameEditor.TOOLS.Enabled && !event.ctrlKey && !event.altKey) {
[...]

I made the parsing default "false" so developers don't accidentally release the game with the editor enabled because of a typo, while making the normal default "true" for better flow for developers when they're first checking out the plugin.

BlueZircon

#183 Dec 31, 2018, 02:40 AM Source

I recently added these plugins to my project, but have some questions about the plugins and how to achieve my lighting goals.

My main goal is to just have a simple torch toggle where the player can use a Torch item, and it activates the Player Torch. This would be relevant in dark areas such as caves or dungeons and possibly also during combat. Currently, I'm modifying the screen tint for those dark areas using events.

With these plugins, my idea was to suspend the time tint when the player was in the dark areas, but the screen tint events I have already setup use a gray factor, whereas the time tint configurations do not. I also found the the time tints seemed very overpowering (for example, at midnight everything was almost solid blue), and I don't see an alpha configuration that allows me to control how dominant the time tints are.

So then I thought that I could just disable the time plugin so I could just use the lighting with my existing screen tints, but after I set the time feature flag to false, the player torch no longer seemed to function. Does the lighting only work with the tint effects that originate from these plugins?

Any insight would be appreciated.
Discordian

#184 Jan 2, 2019, 10:54 PM Source

You can change the time tint for each hour in the plugin settings. Not sure about an alpha option, don't think I saw one. But 255,255,255 is the same as no tint at all IIRC, but with this plugin, you're pretty much surrendering your tints to the plugin while it's enabled I believe.

As for your torch issue, I haven't implemented lamps yet so I don't have something I can just jot down real quick and I'm sure someone here (or a previous post) can help you.

Edit: FeelZor has been away since November. I'll likely be making some changes to this plugin, albeit minor, but if I do, I'll submit them here so others can use them.
KaitoKuroba

#185 Jan 5, 2019, 03:45 PM Source

Hello,

first of all: Thanks for this plugin. Excellent work.
I have just two questions that hopefully you can answer.

1.) When pressing TAB ingame nothing happens. No onscreen editor, nothing. Not even in the demo. What do I do wrong?
2.) How can I define new hue lights via event?-> Okay, found it in the original thread.

Thanks so much.

Best regards
Kaito

Edit: Another question: Is it possible to use different playertorches? I mean: Normal (little) sight without item and increased sight with lantern, torch, eg. Of course I know I can switch on and off the playerlight, but when being in a dungeon I would like the option of having at least a little area of sight even without an item.
Discordian

#186 Jan 8, 2019, 08:51 PM Source

KaitoKuroba said:
Hello,

first of all: Thanks for this plugin. Excellent work.
I have just two questions that hopefully you can answer.

1.) When pressing TAB ingame nothing happens. No onscreen editor, nothing. Not even in the demo. What do I do wrong?
2.) How can I define new hue lights via event?-> Okay, found it in the original thread.

Thanks so much.

Best regards
Kaito

Edit: Another question: Is it possible to use different playertorches? I mean: Normal (little) sight without item and increased sight with lantern, torch, eg. Of course I know I can switch on and off the playerlight, but when being in a dungeon I would like the option of having at least a little area of sight even without an item.

1. No idea how that can happen, are you sure you have all 3 plugins enabled and in order? Do you get any errors?
2. Awesome!
3. Not sure, but you might be able to attach a light to an event, and have it mimic player movements. I'm not 100% sure on that idea, but I believe it should work.

I hope this helps!
KaitoKuroba

#187 Jan 8, 2019, 10:25 PM Source

Discordian said:
1. No idea how that can happen, are you sure you have all 3 plugins enabled and in order? Do you get any errors?
2. Awesome!
3. Not sure, but you might be able to attach a light to an event, and have it mimic player movements. I'm not 100% sure on that idea, but I believe it should work.

I hope this helps!
Thanks for your answer.
Regarding 1.) I even tried it with the demo. Didn't work at all. :( Maybe because of my german keyboard layout? I didn't have any error notification.
2.) Thanks. :D
3.) I was thinking of this, too. But I am not sure if this is possible in a way to make it even look good. I was even trying to configure another player torch via the javascript, but this didn't work at all. Is it maybe possible to change the parameters of the player torch ingame via event? This would maybe help.

Best regards
Kaito
Discordian

#188 Jan 9, 2019, 10:12 PM Source

KaitoKuroba said:
Thanks for your answer.
Regarding 1.) I even tried it with the demo. Didn't work at all. :( Maybe because of my german keyboard layout? I didn't have any error notification.
2.) Thanks. :D
3.) I was thinking of this, too. But I am not sure if this is possible in a way to make it even look good. I was even trying to configure another player torch via the javascript, but this didn't work at all. Is it maybe possible to change the parameters of the player torch ingame via event? This would maybe help.

Best regards
Kaito

1. Hmm I haven't tried with very many layouts so that could be the issue! Usually the error console (F12) has something. I'm really not sure, I'm just a user and it's been working for me!

3. It doesn't appear to be possible to change player torch via in-game event (unless someone programs the feature in). Is it choppy if you use an event that mirrors the user? I haven't tried it myself yet, that was just the first idea I had. I recommend you keep playing with the Javascript if you can't do in-game events.

I might take up development of this plugin but only in a minor capacity. I still hope the developer comes back.

Sorry I couldn't be of more help :).
SoulOfRock

#189 Jan 11, 2019, 01:15 AM Source

Hi, im using himework custom page conditions and im trying to make an event that appear only when the time is 6:00, so i need a script call for the game time, and i dont know what to put.
this is my event page.

<page condition>
if : Script $gameTime(6:00) <------------- This is only an example, i really dont know what to put here.
plugin comand: activate_page
end
</page condition>

help me pls,ty :)
KaitoKuroba

#190 Jan 11, 2019, 12:08 PM Source

Discordian said:
1. Hmm I haven't tried with very many layouts so that could be the issue! Usually the error console (F12) has something. I'm really not sure, I'm just a user and it's been working for me!

3. It doesn't appear to be possible to change player torch via in-game event (unless someone programs the feature in). Is it choppy if you use an event that mirrors the user? I haven't tried it myself yet, that was just the first idea I had. I recommend you keep playing with the Javascript if you can't do in-game events.

I might take up development of this plugin but only in a minor capacity. I still hope the developer comes back.

Sorry I couldn't be of more help :).
1. No error visible in the console. Pressing Tab just does nothing. :(

3. Actually I am pretty good with using events. But a mirror to the user seems a bit difficult and maybe slows game even down.

I found your answer very helpful. So thank you. I think, the players of my actual game should just be ok with the fact that the world is very dark, when they don't collect torches then. ^^

Best regards
Kaito
Discordian

#191 Jan 13, 2019, 11:30 PM Source

SoulOfRock said:
Hi, im using himework custom page conditions and im trying to make an event that appear only when the time is 6:00, so i need a script call for the game time, and i dont know what to put.
this is my event page.

<page condition>
if : Script $gameTime(6:00) <------------- This is only an example, i really dont know what to put here.
plugin comand: activate_page
end
</page condition>

help me pls,ty :)

See first post:

Time SAVE hour_var minutes_var
Saves the current time in the specified variables.
eg: Time SAVE 2 3 will save the hours in the variable #0002 and the minutes in the variable #0003.

Before doing check, run that plugin command to save the time to variables, then check those.
SoulOfRock

#192 Jan 14, 2019, 02:03 AM Source

I try with save time,and the event now have this page condition.

<page condition>
if : Variable hour = 6
plugin comand: activate_page
end
</page condition>

But the variable dont change
automatically,and the event dont disappear at the 6am. Help TnT.
Prescott

#193 Jan 16, 2019, 04:53 AM Source

I intend to create my game with only two times: day and night. Just to simplify things. Is there any way to configure this plugin to make it have only two times of day instead of a dynamic clock, and do a screen fade out then fade in when the time of day changes (to account for NPCs moving)? I really want the ease of placing lights like in the video rather than going through every event and customizing it, but my game does not have this dynamic clock.

Worst case, I'll change the game to accommodate this plugin though, because it's pretty amazing being able to place lighting effects like that.
Discordian

#194 Jan 19, 2019, 04:58 AM Source

Prescott said:
I intend to create my game with only two times: day and night. Just to simplify things. Is there any way to configure this plugin to make it have only two times of day instead of a dynamic clock, and do a screen fade out then fade in when the time of day changes (to account for NPCs moving)? I really want the ease of placing lights like in the video rather than going through every event and customizing it, but my game does not have this dynamic clock.

Worst case, I'll change the game to accommodate this plugin though, because it's pretty amazing being able to place lighting effects like that.

Yeah you can simply use plugin commands to set the time with an event that does the fades when you want, or even let the time run normally, and have an event run at a certain time. You can also configure the colours for each time of day. My game I keep time paused at all times, and advance it after the player triggers certain events that advance the day.

Hope that helps, good luck!
Prescott

#195 Jan 19, 2019, 07:31 AM Source

Oh I see, so you just keep it paused until a certain condition is met and then manually change it, awesome! It'll be much easier to set up a time system that way, right now I'm doing it with just eventing.

Now I just have to figure out how to make my game not freeze while a parallel process event throws out a wait command if it's a common event rather than a normal event put on every single map.
Fox12

#196 Jan 24, 2019, 10:58 PM Source

Hey, this plugin looks perfect for what I need, but im having a weird problem. The TAB button won't bring up the editor. I noticed that the game has a slightly darker hue, which makes me think it's properly installed, but I can't actually access the editor itself. I've installed the jvs. and images properly, i believe, so im not sure what the issue is.
Discordian

#197 Jan 27, 2019, 02:09 PM Source

Fox12 said:
Hey, this plugin looks perfect for what I need, but im having a weird problem. The TAB button won't bring up the editor. I noticed that the game has a slightly darker hue, which makes me think it's properly installed, but I can't actually access the editor itself. I've installed the jvs. and images properly, i believe, so im not sure what the issue is.

One other user has this issue and I'm not sure why (just a few posts up). If you're not already set for it, try setting your keyboard layout to USA, and make sure you're pressing tab while in-game.

If I could reproduce this issue, I could fix it, or at least support it. Unfortunately I just don't see what's wrong.
Fox12

#198 Jan 28, 2019, 04:19 AM Source

Now, I'm not sure if this helps anyone, but I just tried using Yanfly's Grid Free Dudads, and encountered the same problem. So the issue seems to be with in game editors in general. My keyboard is set to USA, so I'm not sure what the issue is. Curious.
Daisetsu

#199 Jan 28, 2019, 04:15 PM Source

I have really a Problem. Dont know what happened but i cant acces the ingame light tool . Nothing happens if i press TAB.
The Lights that i already made working without Problems.

Edit: I have read that the user above me have the same problem. but i never updated i think . its really strange a real big problem. My Game is based on the Light Engine.

Edit2: tried the way with the keyboard layout... nothing..
and even in the demo the tab dos nothing.. i dont get because it worked perfectly...
Discordian

#200 Jan 31, 2019, 08:35 PM Source

Very strange, thanks for the information guys! Nobody has any errors in the console? I'll keep investigating, but currently, I've made no progress tracking down the root cause of the issue.