Lighting and Time Editor - Continued! (page 14) — RPG Maker Forum Archive

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…

leonhart42 said:

Okay, this is driving me crazy. I must be doing something wrong here.

The lighting plugin works perfectly...until I disable the game time plugin. Once I do so, all lights disappear. I can still press tab to bring up the in-game editor, with the light bulb icon in the bottom corner, the ambient/torch/bonfire options in top left, and my previous custom lights designated with mini light bulb icons. Everything appears to be functioning, but I'm not getting any lights. I tried manually tinting the screen, lighting with events, etc. Nothing works when the game time plugin is disabled.

I'll note that I disabled the game time plugin properly as instructed (setting the Enabled heading to a false value) and listed the plugins in the proper order at the bottom of my plugin list.

I know it's not a conflict issue with another plugin, because I also tested this on a brand new test project with zero additional plugins, and experienced the exact same results. Once I disable the game time plugin, my custom lights disappear.

I feel like I'm probably overlooking something obvious here, but I can't figure it out. I love this editor and would love to utilize it without the game time component.

Any suggestions for a fix?

EDIT: Figured out a solution while I was waiting for post approval. After disabling the game time plugin, you can manually set a base map tint in an individual map's note field with "
<Tint: R, G, B>." After setting a base tint, the custom lights should show against it. Hope that helps somebody else out there!

Its been like, 2 years, but this still happens to me. i dont really understand what you mean by map notes, but if its this, then it unfortunately didnt work for me besides making the screen all black. any other suggestions?

hey y'all, kinda desperate so ill try to reach out here.
I moved projects from windows to macOS and ran into many, many issues outside of this plugin.
however, I managed to fix all. all but this one.
see, once I enter play testing and press tab everything works fine. too fine. after trying to MOVE a Light Source I had created prior or CREATE a brand new one I would get a peculiar error

typeerror [err_invalid_arg_type]: the cb argument must be of type function. received undefined

I have no idea what other type of info I should provide, I guess I can say im on RPG Maker MV 1.6.2. a screenshot won't do much - it's just a black screen with this exact text pasted on it; f12 reveals no information whatsoever.
ive heard that the plugin is sorta buggy but have never really encountered any problems before, perhaps its just macOS being macOS aka flop central.
any help is greatly appreciated.