MZ - [MZ & MV v1.9.7] Shora Lighting & Shadow System

Shora · 2020-12-26T01:02:21+0900

Version: 1.9.7 Itch.io Page. Wiki Page. ―――――――――――――――――――――IntroductionA Lighting and Shadow plugin for RPG Maker MV/MZ, powered by pixi.js library. Features- Create different lighting types using custom light images, with different defaults parameters easily from Plugin Manager. - Deploy your lighting in events and items, automatically using comment/note, with the ability to override the default setting on demand. - Tons of plugin commands for both MV and MZ versions to change each light's parameters, in desired tick(s) and transition. - Light comes with real-time shadows (optionally). With 2.5D soft shadows casted, your game can be enhanced a lot nicer. Makes the shadow caster detection happen automatically using terrain tags, or using region IDs. - Light comes with animations (optionally). Including automatic pulse animation and flicker animation. Easily create your own light animation using plugin command and/or scripts. - Battle lighting is finally here! - Both lights and shadows are deeply optimized for RPG Maker MV/MZ, specifically the PIXI.JS library. Just integrate the plugin into your game without worrying about performance. - Always there to help you if you’ve encountered any problems, and open to any suggestions! . Tutorial Spoiler: Plugin Installation Grab the plugin js file from itch.io official page, and place it inside the js/plugins folder. Enable the plugin inside the Plugin Manager. I suggest placing it above every other plugin. Make a new folder named lights inside the img/ directory. This folder will store all your lighting images. If you don’t have any, a good way is just copy and paste from my demo project. It is done! Spoiler: Lights Simply add [light] comment to an event's page, and F5 to see if it worked correctly. If you use the lights image directory from my demo, you should see this: You could override the light default parameters by adding custom arguments after the name. Eg: [flashlight -r 120 -a 45] will give the event (‘s page)/ item’s note a light of name flashlight, with their radius set to 120% and angle to 45 degree. Almost every default parameter could be overridden like this. Current light parameters include: name, images, status, radius, angle, event’s direction, color tint, color filters, offset, shadow, and animations. Spoiler: Shadows There are currently 2 ways of creating shadow casters (objects that block lights): automatically using terrain tags or/and manually using region IDs. I suggest using terrain tags as you don’t need to draw regions again and again for every map, but region IDs can be useful in some cases if you want to draw it manually. Method 1: Terrain Tags Open Database -> Tilesets -> Terrain Tags, and set all the Wall Tile to 1, and Top Wall Tile to 2. You can change those default constant value inside the Plugin Setting -> [Game: Settings] You should have something like this: Now just draw your map normally, and the shadow caster will be automatically detected. This detection is prioritized over the region IDs, which we will talk below. Method 2: Region IDs If you used Khas Advanced Lighting before (which has been deprecated), you pretty well know how this works. Just place the region IDs on top of all the wall you drew as the height. You can change the region IDs range in the Plugin Settings as well. Spoiler: Custom Lights You can create various custom lightings for your project, with different image and default settings, using Plugin Settings -> [Lights: Custom]. A custom light template currently look like this: You also can just copy my custom lights to your project! Simply copy & paste it. Spoiler: MZ Plugin Commands MZ Plugin Command: Set Light Parameters: Blank settings will remain the same, transition type is optional. Leave the Light Id section blank to target the event that call this command. Set Map Ambient: Spoiler: MV Plugin Commands You can shorten the eventId for the current lighting (lighting of the event which call the commands) by using a simple "=" instead of typing it id. This is the same as "leave the id blank for this event" in MZ plugin command. ambient offset offsetx offsety radius angle tint status shadow Spoiler: Animations Spoiler: Automatic Animating Animation that consistently happens with lights throughout the scene. There are currently 2 implemented: Flicker and Pulse. Spoiler: Flicker Flicker animation makes the light randomly flick. Flicker Intensity, range from 1 to 10, determines the opacity that light achieves when flickering. At 1, it is ~90% opacity. Flicker Speed determines the frequency of light flickering. Spoiler: Pulse Pulse animation makes the light shrink constantly up and down. Pulse R…

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#182 Feb 8, 2022, 09:50 PM Source

Nicke said:
Yep me too. Just tried to Save and I can't load the game now from that Save file.
Cool. Well not cool lol. But I am happy to hear that the problem wasn’t just on my end. This means it’s not a plugin compatibility issue. So there’s the plus side to this.
Shora

#183 Feb 9, 2022, 05:04 AM Source

Updated to 1.8.1, which is a hotfix to patch the syntax error @Nicke mentioned and load save file error @Enigma_Productions mentioned. You can download it from itch.io for directly from here:
jackassets

#184 Feb 10, 2022, 04:37 AM Source

ReferenceError
require is not defined

Mobile devices or Chrome Windows 10
jackassets

#185 Feb 10, 2022, 01:32 PM Source

What would be the configuration so that the map has the exact colors as if the plugin was not active? I'm trying to use several types and the lighting is always too strong. For example if I use #FFFFFF

Thanks, if this plugin is mobile-friendly I will buy a license on the itch website.
Eusong

#186 Feb 10, 2022, 01:47 PM Source

cropots said:
What would be the configuration so that the map has the exact colors as if the plugin was not active? I'm trying to use several types and the lighting is always too strong. For example if I use #FFFFFF

Thanks, if this plugin is mobile-friendly I will buy a license on the itch website.
I believe if you set the overall brightness to 1 then #FFFFFF works perfectly. It's 1.5 by default.
jackassets

#187 Feb 10, 2022, 02:03 PM Source

@Eusong Perfect! Thanks
CMS

#188 Feb 10, 2022, 02:33 PM Source

Hey @Shora, I love the plugin.
I switched over from Khas to this one because I really like the options this one provides.

I did however notice a significant drop in performance in some maps. I disabled the lighting system and the lag spikes disappeared.
No idea what is causing it yet. It doesn't seem to have anything to do with the quantity of lights.

EDIT: upon doing some further testing, I still can't figure out why it is lagging my game out so badly. It dips from 60 to 40 fps every couple seconds, getting more frequent when moving. Even if the map is completely void from light sources, it still lags out.
Shora

#189 Feb 11, 2022, 02:01 AM Source

cropots said:
ReferenceError
require is not defined

Mobile devices or Chrome Windows 10
I will take a look about it. Probably need to change the way the plugin preloading image.

CMS said:
Hey @Shora, I love the plugin.
I switched over from Khas to this one because I really like the options this one provides.

I did however notice a significant drop in performance in some maps. I disabled the lighting system and the lag spikes disappeared.
No idea what is causing it yet. It doesn't seem to have anything to do with the quantity of lights.

EDIT: upon doing some further testing, I still can't figure out why it is lagging my game out so badly. It dips from 60 to 40 fps every couple seconds, getting more frequent when moving. Even if the map is completely void from light sources, it still lags out.
That weird. I can understand if the performance dropped if you using animating lighting (and currently I'm working on rewrite the renderer to handle those more efficiently), but if your map don't even have lights, it can be one of the two problems:
- If the CPU usage of the game is high, maybe it because of my function (like reading item/actor notetags etc.) get called unnecessary repeatly. If that the case, then I would try to find it out and fix it (maybe I would PMs you for a demo).
- If the GPU usage of the game is high, then maybe it because of those filter, like the soft shadow one. Try disable them in the plugin manager and try again.
And, did you try disable the plugin though script instead of entirely turning it off? Can you try running $gameLighting.disable() in the console and tell me the differences?
jackassets

#190 Feb 11, 2022, 03:10 AM Source

Shora said:
I will take a look about it. Probably need to change the way the plugin preloading image.

That weird. I can understand if the performance dropped if you using animating lighting (and currently I'm working on rewrite the renderer to handle those more efficiently), but if your map don't even have lights, it can be one of the two problems:
- If the CPU usage of the game is high, maybe it because of my function (like reading item/actor notetags etc.) get called unnecessary repeatly. If that the case, then I would try to find it out and fix it (maybe I would PMs you for a demo).
- If the GPU usage of the game is high, then maybe it because of those filter, like the soft shadow one. Try disable them in the plugin manager and try again.
And, did you try disable the plugin though script instead of entirely turning it off? Can you try running $gameLighting.disable() in the console and tell me the differences?
I will be grateful if you can give an answer soon, I'm depending on this adjustment to continue using your plugin or not and buying the license.

Thanks!
Shora

#191 Feb 11, 2022, 03:41 AM Source

Updated to 1.8.2. Fixed the angle setting not working when set using comment syntax, and (tried) to fix the plugin on Mobile/Chrome device.

cropots said:
I will be grateful if you can give an answer soon, I'm depending on this adjustment to continue using your plugin or not and buying the license.

Thanks!
Please check this update out and see if it work. If it still doesn't work, I will PMs you for more detail (though I think it should work now).
You can download the update from itchio
Trihan

#192 Feb 11, 2022, 04:10 AM Source

Is this the release where you've figured out the optimisation as per your last status update?
Shora

#193 Feb 11, 2022, 04:31 AM Source

Trihan said:
Is this the release where you've figured out the optimisation as per your last status update?
Almost it. This release have a quite decent performance optimization boost, like x3 fps compare to the last version. But it can be expanded even more, deeper to the PIXIJS renderer.
That what I'm currently working on right now, and the goal is to make the plugin as fast as (and even faster) than Khas one. That optimization will maybe come in some forms in v1.9 update, and will be fully deployed in v2 update as well as the light GUI design and shadow GUI editor. That the roadmap for now :).
jackassets

#194 Feb 11, 2022, 11:33 AM Source

Shora said:
Updated to 1.8.2. Fixed the angle setting not working when set using comment syntax, and (tried) to fix the plugin on Mobile/Chrome device.

Please check this update out and see if it work. If it still doesn't work, I will PMs you for more detail (though I think it should work now).
You can download the update from itchio
Thanks for the quick response, unfortunately it doesn't seem to work. The error has changed:

ReferenceError
nw is not defined
Shora

#195 Feb 11, 2022, 02:21 PM Source

cropots said:
Thanks for the quick response, unfortunately it doesn't seem to work. The error has changed:

ReferenceError
nw is not defined
It should work now (again). Pretty certain since I completely removed my old cache system xd. Please check this version:
P/S: If you having error please re-downloading the file again, I mistyped the syntax :kaocry:
jackassets

#196 Feb 11, 2022, 03:13 PM Source

@Shora
Now it's working perfectly. Thank you very much, I will be happy to support your work by purchasing a license.

I noticed a small problem that I don't know if it's something normal with the plugin, see the attached image that the shadow of the footer of the wall is over the character.
Shora

#197 Feb 12, 2022, 02:04 AM Source

cropots said:
@Shora
Now it's working perfectly. Thank you very much, I will be happy to support your work by purchasing a license.

I noticed a small problem that I don't know if it's something normal with the plugin, see the attached image that the shadow of the footer of the wall is over the character.

View attachment 215933
Its is a normal though, since the game is rendered in 2D, and the shadow affect the light, which effect the character. I may try to fix this in the future if needed, but currently I'm in process of further optimizing the plugin first :p. It would be ~3x faster than the 1.8 one.
jackassets

#198 Feb 12, 2022, 06:39 PM Source

Shora said:
Its is a normal though, since the game is rendered in 2D, and the shadow affect the light, which effect the character. I may try to fix this in the future if needed, but currently I'm in process of further optimizing the plugin first :p. It would be ~3x faster than the 1.8 one.
No problem my friend, keep up the great work.
jackassets

#199 Feb 13, 2022, 05:15 PM Source

I encountered a problem with this update. See in the attached image the test I did in the DEMO MZ 1.8 project
Niekitty

#200 Feb 13, 2022, 07:42 PM Source

I... feel like an idiot...

I spent 2 hours fighting and going back and forth between my current project at the light demo trying to figure out why the mega heckers mine wasn't working. I was even about to post for help.
And then my SO walked by behind me and pointed at the plugin settings and said "Aren't you using MV?"

Yyyup. I had not notice the plugin setting was defaulting to MZ.

Head.
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Desk.
jackassets

#201 Feb 14, 2022, 02:45 AM Source

I noticed that there is a conflict with the GALV_ActionIndicatorsMZ plugin, see the attached image.