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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bikshoo

#262 Jun 18, 2022, 02:44 AM Source

Hey guys, just got this plugin and I'm having trouble getting it to work..

I keep getting this screen, even though I've already made a folder in the img folder called lights, and put in a default lighting image.. How do I fix this?
pennylessz

#263 Jun 19, 2022, 08:51 PM Source

bikshoo said:
Hey guys, just got this plugin and I'm having trouble getting it to work..
View attachment 229668
I keep getting this screen, even though I've already made a folder in the img folder called lights, and put in a default lighting image.. How do I fix this?
You need to set it up to recognize that specific light in the plugin parameters.
bikshoo

#264 Jun 20, 2022, 04:39 AM Source

pennylessz said:
You need to set it up to recognize that specific light in the plugin parameters.
ah, I finally figured it out!! I know it said to set up the parameters in the startup but i didnt really know what that meant exactly... clicked some things and it worked. thank you!
Eddowhateveresst

#265 Jul 5, 2022, 03:18 PM Source

Okay the Plugin doesnt work ... What could i be doing wrong?
AeroFunk80

#266 Jul 6, 2022, 05:46 PM Source

Eddowhateveresst said:
Okay the Plugin doesnt work ... What could i be doing wrong?
I can't promise I can help, but you may want to give more details about the issue you're having. That was pretty vague. It works for me just fine. Are you getting any errors when you press F12?
Eddowhateveresst

#268 Jul 7, 2022, 11:02 AM Source

I have done everything necessary... (insert default, lights folder,specify in plugin manager...)

i found an erreor here...
ShadowDragon

#269 Jul 8, 2022, 08:33 AM Source

@Eddowhateveresst please Edit your post next time, as that screenshots
arent helping, you need to show the "console" TAB, not the any other tabs,
as that doesn't give us the info we needed.

also a screenshot of your events what doesn't work is usefull and in case your
plugin database as most plugins need to be in a specific order to work correctly,
if not a compability issue or conflict.
slimmmeiske2

#270 Jul 8, 2022, 08:37 AM Source

@Eddowhateveresst I merged your posts together. As Shadow stated above, please use the 'Edit' button if you want to add some extra info.
KevinTheHunter

#271 Jul 10, 2022, 11:38 AM Source

Hi, how do you change the radius? I was trying to change fire, torch radius, but nothing happens, because I think I was changing the parameters in the wrong slot in the plugin.
AeroFunk80

#272 Jul 11, 2022, 10:47 PM Source

@KevinTheHunter

Use this comment. You can also change the tint and x, y coordinates. This would be for each individual lighting event, but that way you have a bit more control of each light:

[light -tint #ff0000 -radius 85 -x 48 -y -48]
oimatrixio

#273 Jul 13, 2022, 04:48 PM Source

Hello and thanks for sharing this! Can this plugin just run on one single map instead of all the maps I have created? I have a dungeon which I would like to darken using your plugin but not the rest of the maps.
ToshaAngel

#274 Aug 2, 2022, 09:55 AM Source

Shora, I hope you still support this plugin. I have encountered a compatibility error with another plugin...
The error occurs when trying to save.
Is there any way to fix this?
BoneCollectors

#275 Aug 13, 2022, 10:09 PM Source

I also get breaking bug errors every time when I leave a game, go to the title screen and then choose to Start a New Game.

Our players are mad about this. And I have no idea how to fix this.
Hypers

#276 Sep 4, 2022, 04:10 AM Source

cool plugin
Dark_Ansem

#277 Sep 13, 2022, 05:09 PM Source

I really like how warm the light looks compared to other plugins
nnl94

#278 Sep 20, 2022, 02:27 AM Source

Question: where can I get alternative lights, in addition to the one available in the wiki? Nothing wrong with the default one, I'd just like to add one whose light is more "white" (the current one is reddish in color)
retrofiction

#279 Sep 21, 2022, 06:49 AM Source

I noticed that the plugin doesn't seem to be compatabile with Galvs MessageBusts (the busts simply don't appear as long as Shora Lighting is switched on). Does anyone have the same issue? (or does anyone know how to fix it? :) )
ShadowDragon

#280 Sep 22, 2022, 10:57 AM Source

@retrofiction did you try to switch them? shora above or below
galv_MessageBust plugin?

as the light dont target the message plugin, it would be weird not working.
Issac7

#281 Sep 22, 2022, 12:17 PM Source

I love this plugin and am pondering about using it.
I still have a couple of questions. If someone could answer, that would be great.

1- Is there a way to simply turn the plugin on/off with a switch? I can't find this anywhere and some maps won't need shadows or lights.

2- Is there a list of the different plugin commands or script calls we can use?

Both these features are very common but I can find the information about this anywhere.
Thanks in advance
ShadowDragon

#282 Sep 23, 2022, 08:47 AM Source

@Issac7 you can use that in 3 ways by scriptcalls:

1) by using: $gameLighting.enable();
2) by using: $gameLighting.disable();
3) by using: $gameLighting.setPluginStatus(true/false);

by 3, use either true, to "enable" it, use false to "disable" it