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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Started by Shora Dec 25, 2020, 04:02 PM 656 posts Page 12 of 33 View original ↗

AeroFunk80

#222 Feb 24, 2022, 05:30 AM Source

Is there a way to place a light on the map but have it start OFF with a switch or command that turns it on via another event? I can't find the command (if it's an option).
Shora

#223 Feb 24, 2022, 11:55 AM Source
CMS said:
Hey Shora! I keep loving this plugin and the work you are actively putting in to updating it.
I think I've found a small possible bug!

When using a transfer player command and transfer the player to the same map they are on, it doesn't show the lighting until the player takes a step.
Thanks for the report, I will try to fix it.

AeroFunk80 said:
Is there a way to place a light on the map but have it start OFF with a switch or command that turns it on via another event? I can't find the command (if it's an option).
You can do that by append the -status flag in it comment, like this:
Code:
[light -status off]
Then when you want to turn it on again, just use the Set Light Parameters command and change only the status setting to ON. I haven't think about allow switch/variables automatically to be light settings, that idea is pretty good!
McAron

#224 Feb 28, 2022, 02:47 PM Source

~~No matter what I try (applying same settings, starting from scratch) latest version 1.8.4 (even though it says 1.8.3 in game) doesn't work in MV maker.~~

EDIT: It works. No idea how it got messed up but after re-installing it again it seems to work.

EDIT2: IS there a way to make this compatible with plugins that allow walking behind tiles using regions? Like CityShrimp's Cover Tiles. For example it uses Region ID 19 to hide events behind it. Maybe modify CityShrimp's plugin to include all the regions below that number, not just one.
BoneCollectors

#225 Feb 28, 2022, 06:20 PM Source

@Shora , thank you for the plugin.

I'm trying to implement a full conversion to your light system, but I have a question:
we use equipable flashlights as armors in Dino Hazard. The notetag doesn't seem to work in armors, just items.

Is that right?

Alternatively, is there a way to toggle on and off the flashlight with plugin commands or scripts? I looked for it all over but couldn't find that info.
AeroFunk80

#226 Mar 5, 2022, 06:46 AM Source
Shora said:
Thanks for the report, I will try to fix it.

You can do that by append the -status flag in it comment, like this:

Code:
[light -status off]
Shora said:
Then when you want to turn it on again, just use the Set Light Parameters command and change only the status setting to ON. I haven't think about allow switch/variables automatically to be light settings, that idea is pretty good!

Do I need to combine the [light -status off] with the [light] comment, too? Trying and can't get it to work. I'll keep messing around with it.

Thanks for this and the switch would be a nice feature. Would love to see that added at some point if possible. I'm really looking forward to the GUI! :) Really excited to put this in my game. Already purchased off itch. Loving it so far!
ChoVah

#227 Mar 7, 2022, 07:27 AM Source

Can the lighting be turned off from scene to scene?

If I have lighting for indoor scenes using it with torches etc, but then I go outside and its basically constantly night time is the problem. Is there something I can put in the maps Notes to have "use lighting plugin yes/no" type thing?
ChoVah

#228 Mar 11, 2022, 09:30 PM Source

I have figured out how to make my default AMBIENT to essentially no darkness aka #ffffff, what is the call in each map that needs to happen when it should be dark and changed? [AMBIENT#232323] or is it [Lights:#232323]
ChoVah

#229 Mar 11, 2022, 09:48 PM Source

You can also set the ambient color from the map notetags too, just put [ambient <color>] (color can be #ffffff, day, night, etc. inside the map notetags.
I tried this, and nothing happens. I set default ambient to #ffffff essentially making no darkness layer... then on a single map I added [ambient <#232323>] and no result, also tried [ambient <black>] and no result
ToshaAngel

#230 Mar 13, 2022, 03:06 PM Source

When you select an element on which something is written in the notes, the plugin tries to launch it as a light source.

Error

Item Settings
BoneCollectors

#231 Mar 22, 2022, 06:44 PM Source

Hello, Shora. I guess I found either a bug or incompatibility.

When the player quit the game from the menu (during a game) and chooses to return to the Title Screen, if the person chooses to start a new game, this bug happens:

However, if you simply restart the game and start a new game, it works just fine.

This happens with Shora's plugin both on top and bottom of the plugin list.
Mr. Beknacktoman

#232 Mar 30, 2022, 09:16 PM Source

Any chance to make this compatible with AltimitMovement(a pixel movement plugin)? Right now, if the player has a light source the shadows don't work, the shadows are stuck at the starting position. The light source still follows the player but the shadows aren't changing. Difficult to explain, so here are two pictures:

This doesn't happen if I disable AltimitMovement, but then there is no pixel movement, which is essential for me.
FinnGuy

#233 Apr 7, 2022, 02:12 PM Source

Is someone else here using MZ is having some flickering too? it works as it should but have a random flickering in every light
AeroFunk80

#234 Apr 11, 2022, 05:38 AM Source

Question. I believe Shora is taking some time away for a bit, and I got a majority of this plugin working in my game. However; I can't figure out the comment code that offsets the lights.

I tried both [light -offsetx 48 -offsety -48] and [light -x 48 -y -48]. Neither of those move the light in any direction, though. I've attempted multiple numbers in the x, y coordinates. Does anyone know if there's a different code? Or if it's just a bug within the plugin?

Also... anyone know if there's a way to change the brightness of the light itself? Make it dimmer, etc?

Hope to see you again soon, Shora! Looking forward to whatever else you do with this amazing plugin! :)
ShadowDragon

#235 Apr 11, 2022, 08:42 AM Source

@AeroFunk80 the -offsetx or -x are correct, could you try
[light -x 30 -y 30] to see if that work as test purpose?

if it does, than I wonder why negative numbers are ignored.
there is also a structure for the offset to use.

brightness can also be lower from 0 - 255.
AeroFunk80

#236 Apr 12, 2022, 10:35 PM Source

ShadowDragon said:
@AeroFunk80 the -offsetx or -x are correct, could you try
[light -x 30 -y 30] to see if that work as test purpose?

if it does, than I wonder why negative numbers are ignored.
there is also a structure for the offset to use.

brightness can also be lower from 0 - 255.
Thanks for the reply. I tried what you recommended and the light still isn't moving: [light -x 30 -y 30]

As for the brightness... do you know what the comment code is? Or how it should be written?
ShadowDragon

#237 Apr 13, 2022, 07:39 AM Source

it should be in the helpfile, if it isn't, I can look into the code for you later.
but I dont know if the -x and -y works in the demo, if it does there or in
a clean project, than some plugin is conflicting, so you have to move
the light plugin up or down the plugin database or see which one is
conflicting to turn them all off, and on 1 by 1.

DM me on discord later, when I got time, I look into it for you.
Splatterguy

#238 Apr 22, 2022, 02:06 PM Source

Hey @Shora!
Your PlugIn is just awesome and I'm really grateful to you for that!!!
Thanks for your nice work! :)

There's just one thing I can't fix.
Do you see that dead tree on the picture? (it's just an example)
It's very high above my character, but the top of the tree is illuminated.
When I try to set it to "Roof-Top ID", it transforms into an dark ugly square.
Is there a nicer way to leave the tree completely dark?
pennylessz

#239 Apr 25, 2022, 07:35 AM Source

I came here to ask about an issue, but I think I've gotten it resolved. Thank you for the beautiful looking plugin!

Edit: Actually, I can't seem to get it to let me keep transition type blank, it only allows for 1 or 2, if I leave it, the game crashes on opening.
AeroFunk80

#240 Apr 26, 2022, 12:01 AM Source

Quick question. I don't see anything in here about it.

Is there a way to get lighting to transfer over into combat? Right now I have the lighting on my maps and they look great. However; my game has a darker theme, so when combat starts... it's bright and just doesn't blend well with my maps. Is there a way to get the plugin's Brightness parameter to transfer over into battles, as well?

If so... is there a way to add some overhead light into combat so it isn't completely dark?

Thanks!
jackassets

#241 Apr 27, 2022, 07:43 PM Source

Abandoned plugin?