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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Ripple

#161 Aug 2, 2018, 04:51 PM Source

Feelzor said:
Well, we'll try something.
When you're in the game, in the map where you have the light problem, open the console (F8), and type in $gameLighting.list[5].turnOn(); then press enter. It should turn the light on. If it doesn't, that means you have something else, somewhere in the map, set to parallel, that turns it off. If it does, I have no idea what could be the problem.
Also, you can check the plugin command. I often write LIGHT ON 5 instead of Light ON 5, and I've spent a few minutes on such problems to figure out why it doesn't work ^^'

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Forget everything I said please, I found out what caused the problem and it's quite embarassing. My event has 11 pages and I set the light to on on the wrong page which wasn't called in this particular test case. I have 3 similar pages that should all turn on the light (depending on user choices) and I forgot the plugin command in one of the conditional branches that needed it (I thought another page was called, which had the Light ON 5 in it, so that's why I thought it had to work..)

Wow.. Sorry for wasting your time on this one! Keep up the good work! Looking forward to what you have planned with this plugin going forward :)
Feelzor

#162 Aug 2, 2018, 05:01 PM Source

Ripple said:
Forget everything I said please, I found out what caused the problem and it's quite embarassing. My event has 11 pages and I set the light to on on the wrong page which wasn't called in this particular test case. I have 3 similar pages that should all turn on the light (depending on user choices) and I forgot the plugin command in one of the conditional branches that needed it (I thought another page was called, which had the Light ON 5 in it, so that's why I thought it had to work..)

Wow.. Sorry for wasting your time on this one! Keep up the good work! Looking forward to what you have planned with this plugin going forward :)
Don't worry for "wasting time", it's not even a problem :D
I'm glad you found a solution, and good luck on making the rest of the game ^^
Nacura

#163 Aug 3, 2018, 07:42 AM Source

Feelzor said:
Don't worry for "wasting time", it's not even a problem :D
I'm glad you found a solution, and good luck on making the rest of the game ^^

Hello friend again I am going to bother you, I wanted to know if you can fix a problem, buebo I explain to you, when I'm going to export the game and I just export the sprite that is being used, because the publisher's files do not export them, and besides it does not encrypt them so when I add them these are not recognized by the exported game. In the same way tomorrow I will upload a video of the problem. regards
Ripple

#164 Aug 3, 2018, 10:06 AM Source

Feelzor said:
Don't worry for "wasting time", it's not even a problem :D
I'm glad you found a solution, and good luck on making the rest of the game ^^

Hello, it's me again - finally! :D

Could you possibly do a test for me and deploy a test project? When I deploy the game (Windows) and run the .exe on your latest plugin versions - all lights in the game are off. When I do normal tests it works, after deploying the game they all don't.

Any ideas what could cause this?

I deployed using ALL assets to be sure (Also: Is there any way to make the .json lighting files requiredAssets or are data objects copied by default?) but it didn't work.

EDIT: When deploying a Web-Project it works, using the Game.exe it doesn't. Are there different renderers being used? I don't think that's the problem though, since the lights are basically overlay-images..

Here's a comparison screenshot (left deployed as web-project, with lighting displayed correctly / right, Game.exe with no lighting enabled)
Feelzor

#165 Aug 3, 2018, 11:24 AM Source

Nacura said:
Hello friend again I am going to bother you, I wanted to know if you can fix a problem, buebo I explain to you, when I'm going to export the game and I just export the sprite that is being used, because the publisher's files do not export them, and besides it does not encrypt them so when I add them these are not recognized by the exported game. In the same way tomorrow I will upload a video of the problem. regards
If you want to add a file to requiredAssets, just add to the plugin @requiredAssets path/to/the/file without writing the .png extension, for example.

Ripple said:

Hello, it's me again - finally! :D

Could you possibly do a test for me and deploy a test project? When I deploy the game (Windows) and run the .exe on your latest plugin versions - all lights in the game are off. When I do normal tests it works, after deploying the game they all don't.

Any ideas what could cause this?

I deployed using ALL assets to be sure (Also: Is there any way to make the .json lighting files requiredAssets or are data objects copied by default?) but it didn't work.

EDIT: When deploying a Web-Project it works, using the Game.exe it doesn't. Are there different renderers being used? I don't think that's the problem though, since the lights are basically overlay-images..

Here's a comparison screenshot (left deployed as web-project, with lighting displayed correctly / right, Game.exe with no lighting enabled)
Indeed, lights aren't loaded properly when starting the deployed game. I'll investigate that and try to correct it as soon as possible! Please just be patient and look at this post to see if there is a new update correcting it! ^^

EDIT: And for files in the data folder, they are automatically included in the game, even with the exclude unused files checked ^^

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LightingTool v1.7.4 is out!
It corrects the bug where the lights cannot be loaded on a deployed game.
Nacura

#166 Aug 3, 2018, 11:39 PM Source

Feelzor said:
If you want to add a file to requiredAssets, just add to the plugin @requiredAssets path/to/the/file without writing the .png extension, for example.

Indeed, lights aren't loaded properly when starting the deployed game. I'll investigate that and try to correct it as soon as possible! Please just be patient and look at this post to see if there is a new update correcting it! ^^

EDIT: And for files in the data folder, they are automatically included in the game, even with the exclude unused files checked ^^

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LightingTool v1.7.4 is out!
It corrects the bug where the lights cannot be loaded on a deployed game.

Hello friend, I mean this, when I'm going to export the game here is where I'm going to encrypt the image and exclude the files that are not being used, but it leaves me out the light editor files
Feelzor

#167 Aug 5, 2018, 08:07 PM Source

Nacura said:
Hello friend, I mean this, when I'm going to export the game here is where I'm going to encrypt the image and exclude the files that are not being used, but it leaves me out the light editor files
Can you please tell me the version of every plugin (LightingTool, GameTime and GameEditor have different versions) and the name of the files which aren't included please?

Right now, the only workaround I'm thinking of is to deploy a game without excluding unused files, copying encrypted files into another deployed game with, this time, unused files excluded.
Nacura

#168 Aug 5, 2018, 09:47 PM Source

Feelzor said:
Can you please tell me the version of every plugin (LightingTool, GameTime and GameEditor have different versions) and the name of the files which aren't included please?

Right now, the only workaround I'm thinking of is to deploy a game without excluding unused files, copying encrypted files into another deployed game with, this time, unused files excluded.

Hello friend, look at the files that are not encrypted are the files that are in the light and editor folders, because after encrypting I open the game and ask me for the files that you mention. I'll send you a photo anyway.
Nacura

#169 Aug 21, 2018, 04:59 AM Source

Hello friend so long without bothering you jajaaj, query you could add that one can edit the LightSourceID, so one put the number you want and that foama edits the lights and adds the ID that one needs, because when I delete 1 and paste the ID changes, example the first one is LightSourceID: 0 and if the copy and paste I get LightSourceID: 1, but if I erase it and paste it again it says LightSourceID: 3, it's an error I think, that's why one adds its Own ID in the LightSourceID would be better, same thanks: D
Nacura

#170 Aug 26, 2018, 10:36 PM Source

Amigo, cuando pongo más de 10 interruptores paralelos, cuando llega en el momento en que debería estar, se enciende con la ID de la luz, pero el problema de que los FPS se reducen poco a poco hasta que llegas a 2 FPS, si pudiera ayudarme con saludos

The FPS are downloaded, I realized that happened after the 1.6.1 update, even the error it has is that when you enter a dark place and you leave, it is also in the dark, you tell me thank you.

I attached this gif, where pressing the button to open the editor works fine, but then it gets slow
Scorpioni

#171 Sep 23, 2018, 09:21 AM Source

Is there a way to have the current time from LMN_GameTime available in a variable or some other way? That way you could use this data to for example lock doors or use it in a custom hud.

If it's not possible, it would be a nice feature to implement at some point.
StrikerVT

#172 Sep 28, 2018, 03:07 PM Source

Hey @Feelzor .
This plugin is very good and easy to use. Keep up the good work!
But I noticed that in your DEMO I had a feature that I can not use in the latest version of the plugin.
I can not use the shortcut to turn the player's flashlight on and off. I do not know if I forgot any settings or if I did something wrong.

I am using these versions:
Game Editor Core: v1.2.2
GameTime: v1.5.1
LightningTool: v1.7.4
LordAnno

#173 Oct 12, 2018, 01:21 AM Source

Can you say how you exactly put the files in the project folders? I followed the introductions step by step and can activate the plugins in my settings but the plugin don't work.
Silversmith

#174 Oct 12, 2018, 02:53 PM Source

I am having the same problem as Nacura, if I understand them correctly. I enter a room which has a dark tint set in the tags. When I exit the room, I find that same tint applied to the "outside" maps, even though the outside maps are supposed to be tinted depending on time of day. What am I doing wrong? I feel there must be something simple I'm missing.

Edited to add: There was something simple I was missing, namely adding "Tint REMOVE" to every door in and out of the darkened area. Bit of a pain if your area has multiple exits, but it works. Nacura, if you're still reading this, you need to add Plugin Command: Tint REMOVE to the exit to your cave map. That seems to take care of the problem.

Teach me to post a question without rereading the documentation and fiddling with things.
purpleflame

#175 Oct 12, 2018, 09:47 PM Source

Can someone help me, please?
After making a light in the editor and setting a parallel event with the plugin command 'Light LIMIT 19:00 23:59 0' so the light only turns on at night, everytime the character changes maps an error occurs. What am I doing wrong?
cedr777

#176 Nov 1, 2018, 04:30 AM Source

Edit: fixed it by copying from an existing project.
raMasters

#177 Nov 4, 2018, 04:06 PM Source

This plugin is awesome! Thank you so much for doing this :)
Eliaquim

#178 Nov 9, 2018, 01:45 AM Source

I found this awesome! It solves many problems of lights for who doenst know make it in image editors!
Found a error. (using latest version of mv)
Rahmora

#179 Nov 13, 2018, 03:00 AM Source

Really good plugin but I have a slight issue. Whenever i type "Time SET [time]" in the notes section of an event, it doesn't actually set the time when I arrive to the area. Anyone know what I could be doing wrong?
Prodi

#180 Nov 14, 2018, 04:37 PM Source

Oy! This plugin is really awesome. Great job!

@Eliaquim
That error usually happens when your plugins are out of order. Make sure LNM_LightingTool is below LNM_GameTime in your plugin list.

@Feelzor
Found one possible bug and have two suggestions.
Bug: The command 'Light HUE RESET' doesn't work with event lights

And my suggestions, though I don't know how easy or hard they'd be to implement:
Suggestion 1: A way to use a custom image for lights placed in the editor would be nice.

Suggestion 2: It would be nice to have a plugin command that can change the settings of the player torch in-game. Such a command could, for example, be used to make a flashlight with limited power that gets darker over time as the batteries run out. I'm currently doing exactly that using script calls to change the data so this one shouldn't be too hard to do...