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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Daisetsu

#201 Feb 1, 2019, 10:36 AM Source

This is really strange and anoying. And it make no sense at all because it worked perfectly.
No issues in the console at all. Hope somebody can fix this soon.
Discordian

#202 Feb 1, 2019, 09:27 PM Source

Daisetsu said:
This is really strange and anoying. And it make no sense at all because it worked perfectly.
No issues in the console at all. Hope somebody can fix this soon.

What confuses me is the demo project not even working. Like, it's not a plugin conflict, it's not a keyboard layout issue, it doesn't seem to be anything! The entirety of steps I do is: Download RPG Maker MV from Steam, setup the plugins in order, and it just works! But it seems like many people are doing exactly that, and it just doesn't work for them, for whatever reason.

Perhaps try exporting it to web/desktop and try those respective versions and maybe there's a difference? I really wish I had this issue because I could track it down if I could reproduce it no problem.
Daisetsu

#203 Feb 2, 2019, 09:42 AM Source

Yes this is the strangest things of all. But one good thing then it isent my project that have a issue :).
If we cant fix it then we can use the other method in events with scripts... but the other is a easier and faster way.
Daisetsu

#204 Feb 6, 2019, 04:47 PM Source

edit: please delete i was on the old version.
Now Tint Remove working fine. Good Job.
Kyuba

#205 Feb 7, 2019, 09:02 PM Source

I just want to say, amazing plugin !
But it took me ages to understand how to use time limit so it doesn't make the game unplayable, until I though of searching the page.
It really should be more visible or more explained on how to use it correctly. I'm glad I didn't stop trying tho
Eliaquim

#206 Feb 12, 2019, 05:40 PM Source

Anyone knows how to make a white light?
Because of the hue colors, i cannot make it, only colored ones. =/
Daisetsu

#207 Feb 13, 2019, 11:21 AM Source

yeah this would be really good to know.
Discordian

#208 Feb 17, 2019, 11:37 PM Source

Eliaquim said:
Anyone knows how to make a white light?
Because of the hue colors, i cannot make it, only colored ones. =/

Daisetsu said:
yeah this would be really good to know.

A hue of 30-60 will give you a yellow/whiteish hue. Play around with it to find a hue which looks natural from the source in the environment instead of focusing on the hue colour itself.

I hope this helps!
Mayendra

#209 Feb 23, 2019, 06:43 PM Source

it looks great i have not start working on it jet becease i have a little problem
i think i can find my work around but i am hoping it can be done difrrent
i am using seasons in my game and that means that the sunrise and setdown will be diffrent the the dedault setting use here

i am thinking but doing some hard clock calculating by using my event time system as a main system and use it in a season wise way
in this plugin (need to be able to hide the clock for that but i saw that is posle)
i hope more people like my idea (think its usefull for farming games)

can i use normal mv tinting wile using this plugin
i wanna use the normal mv tinting for regio tinting

thx for lisining and keep up the good work
it this part cant be done i wil try to work my way trough it

and for people who are intrested in

my day and night (using this plugin) with random weather changing (events) combined with regio tinting (not sure) and seasons
just send me a message
Cyp999

#210 Mar 4, 2019, 04:58 PM Source

hey,
I've included this plugin into my project. and while the lightning and also in editor tools all work well I've encountered a problemm on
larger maps (in my case 60x60) whenever I run from one side to the other the picture stutters for a few secs at random points. (fps drop from 60 to around 30)
I'm using both newest plugin version and maker version 1.61
Anyone having the same issue or knows how to solve it?
Mayendra

#211 Mar 6, 2019, 04:52 PM Source

Cyp999 said:
hey,
I've included this plugin into my project. and while the lightning and also in editor tools all work well I've encountered a problemm on
larger maps (in my case 60x60) whenever I run from one side to the other the picture stutters for a few secs at random points. (fps drop from 60 to around 30)
I'm using both newest plugin version and maker version 1.61
Anyone having the same issue or knows how to solve it?

i dont know if 60 by 60 is big
but what you can do is split up the map and use a none fading transfer map
that way it stil looks like 1 map and and you make you game easyer to load
definite_lee

#212 Mar 12, 2019, 06:01 AM Source

Cyp999 said:
hey,
I've included this plugin into my project. and while the lightning and also in editor tools all work well I've encountered a problemm on
larger maps (in my case 60x60) whenever I run from one side to the other the picture stutters for a few secs at random points. (fps drop from 60 to around 30)
I'm using both newest plugin version and maker version 1.61
Anyone having the same issue or knows how to solve it?

I too am having this issue. But for me it happens when I try to move for the first time after starting the game. From 60 fps to 30 fps for a second. It's very jarring.
Daisetsu

#213 Mar 12, 2019, 10:08 AM Source

If this happens i think you are using the plugin wrong. I had at the beginning the same problems with fps. I think somewhere on the first 5 Pages there is a solution.
definite_lee

#214 Mar 12, 2019, 06:00 PM Source

Daisetsu said:
If this happens i think you are using the plugin wrong. I had at the beginning the same problems with fps. I think somewhere on the first 5 Pages there is a solution.

The solution you're talking about is related to using the Time System wrong, and in my game I'm not using the Time System at all.
I made a video to show the 30 FPS drops that I am getting just like the other user.

In the video if you watch the FPS counter in the top left you will see it drop 30 FPS very frequently from just standing still.
I really want to use this plugin, it's the coolest looking lighting plugin out there, but this performance issue makes it unusable for me currently. :(

Edit: This lag only seems to occur if the Lighting Tool plugin is ON. so there's something with the lighting causing these performance issues.
Daisetsu

#215 Mar 13, 2019, 01:37 PM Source

This is really strange... hope you can fix it!

Someone know if it is possible to show the clock on the map without the window?
Eliaquim

#216 Mar 17, 2019, 12:37 PM Source

Hey there!
Someone already have this error before?

Spoiler

I can't use in any map. Say that not found the map25, but he is there in the data folder. Also i have one map that already have hte lights works. But for some reason when i try to put more lights using TAB inside the editor, this happens. :(
RM MV 1.6.2
TheCosmicSlug

#217 Mar 17, 2019, 01:21 PM Source

Eliaquim said:
Hey there!
Someone already have this error before?

Spoiler

I can't use in any map. Say that not found the map25, but he is there in the data folder. Also i have one map that already have hte lights works. But for some reason when i try to put more lights using TAB inside the editor, this happens. :(
RM MV 1.6.2
Ive seen that error with this plugin. I believe it was when i had manually upgraded the NWJS binarys. Reverting to 1.6 NWJS and it went away... Hope it helps you too
Henryetha

#218 Mar 23, 2019, 08:57 PM Source

Hi!
First of all, thank you so much for continueing this plugin. It's my always & forever favourite lightning tool! :)

I could successfully deploy a game with it, but watching the Let's Play, I've seen a small issue which surely isn't supposed to happen.
It's not really disturbing, but I thought, I'd report it anyway.

On 32:27, just when the battle is about to start, u can see in the upper left corner the editor icons. I checked another battle and it was the same.

Also battles would have tinted screen - which they hadn't before deployment of the game.

It's really not a big issue, but thought you'd maybe would like to know about this.

The plugin is updated. I did just right before deployment.
Eliaquim

#219 Mar 28, 2019, 08:45 AM Source

Hello! I've been using this plugin for some time. I think he's the best lighting I've ever come across. However, I am having a difficult time lighting, especially indoors. See the picture below.

If I put a torch on the wall, it ends up illuminating the ceiling (A4 TILE). To solve this, I had to make some edits to the images. But this was very difficult because I had to adjust the size of the image to the amount of tiles I wanted to light and every time I have to make a new image if there are many tiles in front, or for example an image like the statue in the photo.

My question is:
Is there any way for me to change the LAYER light that is drawn?
For example, let it always be below the A4.
Or a way that would not draw the light in certain places? For example in tiles containing the X region, or the TAG of the X-ID field.
Thanks!
Berkay

#220 Apr 7, 2019, 10:42 AM Source

i'm trying to change the player's torch color and setting it to 0 in plugin options, because i want it to be "null" color, i mean like natural white light, but it's not working. I don't know what i'm doing wrong, no matter what i do, it stays always the same color and size...