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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ShadowDragon

#443 Jul 14, 2023, 06:54 AM Source

the light like that is an easy fix if you set the x,y offset correctly.
not sure if its in the parameter or by scriptcall, as I think you could
do it in he parameters.

y-24 or less should work, but play with the numbers :)
LyraVultur

#444 Jul 14, 2023, 07:02 AM Source

Is the problem that the flashlight isn't centred on the player? Try editing the "flashlight" custom light settings and playing with the section marked [Advanced: Offset].

If that fails, try making a copy of the image that the light uses (/img/lights/flashlight.png, from memory), and editing it so that the light is centred more how you'd like it.

Edit: ninja'd
Sarandiel

#445 Jul 23, 2023, 05:08 PM Source

I'm experiencing some issues with the plugin. Whenever an event/player with a light effect moves, the graphics become distorted, expanding into a large circle. Does anyone have insight into the possible cause of this problem? I'm at a loss here and would appreciate any help I could get :)
blakerjaker

#446 Jul 24, 2023, 04:15 AM Source

how do you add offset to the comment tags?
example I have a light called [light beamN] I want to move it 16 pixels to the left, but only for this particular event (I don't want to change the plugin setting for this custom light overall). is this possible? if so, what is the syntax required? thanks.
Dark--Paladin

#447 Aug 2, 2023, 07:16 PM Source

Hi, I found a conflict about the plugin with MV3D plugin. Is there any fix for this? If not, is there anyway to disable the plugin using notes, plugin command or script? Anyway, I think your plugin is amazing and thank you.
edit: Also, I found [lighting off] a way to disable the plug in on map notetag. But does it work also using event?
ephesus

#448 Aug 3, 2023, 04:48 AM Source

Zer0Morph said:
Just an FYI, OCRam's Lighting plugin uses MULTIPLY instead of ADD, not sure why, but the results look about the same for lighting overlap, so who knows, haha. ;)
Hey, maybe way old news but the light pngs (in img\lights folder) used for the plugin are all tinted, even the white looking ones are actually a little blue. This would effect the light colors. for total control of color they should be completely desaturated.
Shora

#449 Aug 5, 2023, 08:54 AM Source

blakerjaker said:
how do you add offset to the comment tags?
example I have a light called [light beamN] I want to move it 16 pixels to the left, but only for this particular event (I don't want to change the plugin setting for this custom light overall). is this possible? if so, what is the syntax required? thanks.
You can try [beamN -x -16]

Dark--Paladin said:
Hi, I found a conflict about the plugin with MV3D plugin. Is there any fix for this? If not, is there anyway to disable the plugin using notes, plugin command or script? Anyway, I think your plugin is amazing and thank you.
edit: Also, I found [lighting off] a way to disable the plug in on map notetag. But does it work also using event?
Yes, you can use the Plugin Command for MZ, or use the script "$gameLighting.disable()". You can enable the plugin again in the same way. As for MV3D, this plugin is not intended to work with any plugin that change the way the game rendered (such as from 2D to 3D).
Dark--Paladin

#450 Aug 5, 2023, 02:58 PM Source

@Shora Thank you!
Nightshade

#451 Aug 28, 2023, 10:27 PM Source

party member is a light source powered by oil once you run out of oil party member turns lights off.
is there a way for this system to only turn the light source on if said party member has a specific item in the inventory
Aandel

#452 Aug 31, 2023, 03:02 PM Source

Hello! After 40 maps I decided to add a lighting plugin and yours was the best received by my project! But unfortunately due to some incompatibility with some possible plugins that I use to do Parallax or any other that I haven't identified yet, when I activate the lighting plugin, the camera stops following the Character and becomes static.

So anyway congratulations and thank you very much!

Another thing, could you tell me where I can dynamically see the light effect, like in the gif you posted?

(sorry for my english via google translator)
0hKay

#453 Aug 31, 2023, 03:48 PM Source

Hello!! I tried to use custom lights with the fluorescent lighting from your example, but when I set it up, it didn't work despite putting it in custom lighting with [light fluorescent] as its name and fluorescent.png as the image and doing the comment change. Any advice?
Shora

#454 Sep 1, 2023, 11:10 AM Source

Nightshade said:
party member is a light source powered by oil once you run out of oil party member turns lights off.
is there a way for this system to only turn the light source on if said party member has a specific item in the inventory
Since you can use plugin command/scripts to add/remove lighting for your player, you can achive what you want by simply integrate that with some other items controlling plugin that fire a scripts when a item is added/removed. I'm pretty sure there are plenty of these.

Aandel said:

Hello! After 40 maps I decided to add a lighting plugin and yours was the best received by my project! But unfortunately due to some incompatibility with some possible plugins that I use to do Parallax or any other that I haven't identified yet, when I activate the lighting plugin, the camera stops following the Character and becomes static.

So anyway congratulations and thank you very much!

Another thing, could you tell me where I can dynamically see the light effect, like in the gif you posted?

(sorry for my english via google translator)

Thanks for you kind words! Can you tell me which plugin it is incompatible of? If it a general usage plugin like for parallax mapping, I will try to fix the incompatibility.
As for the GUI, I'm working on a better one right now for directly editing light into the map, so stay tuned! The one in the GIF is to only demonstrate which effect the light can have (and it is very old).

0hKay said:
Hello!! I tried to use custom lights with the fluorescent lighting from your example, but when I set it up, it didn't work despite putting it in custom lighting with [light fluorescent] as its name and fluorescent.png as the image and doing the comment change. Any advice?
You need to register the lighting in the plugin command. The image is just a source material, you can use one image for many different lighting type, which could have different radius, rotation, or color/tint.
Pearsona

#455 Sep 1, 2023, 02:34 PM Source

The link to the 'getting started' guide isn't working. Can anyone help me find it?
Pearsona

#456 Sep 1, 2023, 02:51 PM Source

Sorry about the double post, but I decided to try and figure some stuff out while I'm still looking for the tutorial and... well that was a mistake. I've got no idea what I just broke.

(phone pic because not even Gyazo wanted to touch this one)

Can anyone help me figure out what happened here? D: It happened when I hit 'new game' to try a test map.
bortolonio

#457 Sep 1, 2023, 05:22 PM 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.
I am experiencing the exact same issue. Is there any update on this?
Aandel

#458 Sep 2, 2023, 12:59 PM Source

Oh very grateful for the attention!

Well, I guess I'm the plugin freak! I must have more than 100 plugins in my project(!!!!)

The main ones that mess with Parallax are:

►Galv_LayerGraphics

However, I have numerous other plugins that somehow deal with pictures and the screen.

PS :. I currently use LightningCommunity, however it creates a dark layer that hides my pictures

Below is the complete list of them! (Sorry for the size)

Spoiler
Pearsona

#459 Sep 2, 2023, 05:52 PM Source

Scratch both of my previous posts, I've done more investigating and I've figured out the problem, and it's more bizarre than I ever could've imagined. The plugin doesn't work if both Yanfly Party System + Yanfly Item Core are both active. When it's just one or the other, it works fine! But when it's both... my head hurts @-@

Here's a link to my help thread if anyone has any ideas as to what sort of digital spirit I could've possibly offended for my game to fall apart in such a weirdly specific and terrible way:
MV - Shora's Lighting Incompatible With Yanfly's Party System
BoneCollectors

#460 Sep 4, 2023, 02:04 PM Source

Pearsona said:
Scratch both of my previous posts, I've done more investigating and I've figured out the problem, and it's more bizarre than I ever could've imagined. The plugin doesn't work if both Yanfly Party System + Yanfly Item Core are both active. When it's just one or the other, it works fine! But when it's both... my head hurts @-@

Here's a link to my help thread if anyone has any ideas as to what sort of digital spirit I could've possibly offended for my game to fall apart in such a weirdly specific and terrible way:
MV - Shora's Lighting Incompatible With Yanfly's Party System

It works for me even with those 2 YEP plugins activated in the same project.
BoneCollectors

#461 Sep 4, 2023, 02:10 PM Source

I had a problem with the light system after I updated it to v1.9.1 in my MV project.

The flashlight turns off randomly when I step on some tiles, or when I step over blank events. Of course, there is no turn-off command on those events.

Did anyone have a similar problem?

There is also a problem with the Wall tiles. They are black at the top but they now allow the flashlight to cross the walls. This wasn't happening in earlier versions.

I loved the fps optimization of 1.9.1. I must find a solution for these bugs.
Nightshade

#462 Sep 4, 2023, 07:05 PM Source

BEASUTIFUL : D =^-^= can't believe i got this thing to work : D

ummmm....... realllly dark in this mine :LZSlol:
might have to make it slight more brighter but not to much else the light system wouldn't look right but man its pretty XD