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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Puppet Knight

#463 Sep 5, 2023, 12:20 PM Source

So fun fact i found out today, don't know if its ever been previously reported.

If you put this plugin below YEP Item Core with independent items going, it will break. Works fine if placed above tho. Just something to note for folks

And Yes. I'm using MZ with FOSSIL.
Nightshade

#464 Sep 5, 2023, 01:06 PM Source

that would explain what happened to me then : ) thank you for the heads-up puppet knight
Pearsona

#465 Sep 7, 2023, 12:23 AM Source

BoneCollectors said:
It works for me even with those 2 YEP plugins activated in the same project.
Well that's... bizarre. It might just be something wrong with my project, then...
Puppet Knight

#466 Sep 7, 2023, 01:34 PM Source

Pearsona said:
Well that's... bizarre. It might just be something wrong with my project, then...
Its likely a plugin order issue,

Throw Item core above and Party below
Nightshade

#467 Sep 7, 2023, 01:49 PM Source

i know you can give an event Light source but how do you give a follower a light source?
Seedspreaderent

#468 Sep 8, 2023, 05:33 PM Source

Shora said:
Current light parameters include: name, images, status, radius, angle, event’s direction, color tint, color filters, offset, shadow, and animations.
Did anyone figure out the shorthand for these overrides? I am trying to override the Color Tint.
Splatterguy

#469 Sep 9, 2023, 09:02 AM Source

Hello everyone!
I really love the light plugin -ShoraLighting-.js!!!
But I've got one problem:
The light's turn off as soon as the actor is not within 8 or 10 tiles of them.
Is there a solution for this? With similar plugIns, you can set the range of the lights to be charged. But I would much rather use this PlugIn.

Kind regards
-Splatterguy-
exiledknight

#470 Sep 9, 2023, 06:33 PM Source

I havent dig around the plugin but in another plugin thats the active radius of the light how far it will activate from the player, by the way thank you for this its a great plugin! i might use this for my new project because of how it project shadows lights the dynamics its cool.. i am still tinkering or playing with how everything is done.. This plays good in testplay, in maldives and in joiplay the region 2 set to roof/walls are being carried into a new room or previous room as black blocks/boxes.
Splatterguy

#471 Sep 11, 2023, 03:20 PM Source

Splatterguy said:
Hello everyone!
I really love the light plugin -ShoraLighting-.js!!!
But I've got one problem:
The light's turn off as soon as the actor is not within 8 or 10 tiles of them.
Is there a solution for this? With similar plugIns, you can set the range of the lights to be charged. But I would much rather use this PlugIn.

Kind regards
-Splatterguy-
I have found a solution to my problem.
After I used another image as a light source (I think it had a different scale), it stopped disappearing at the edge of the monitor.

Problem solved!
exiledknight

#472 Sep 11, 2023, 07:23 PM Source

Splatterguy said:
I have found a solution to my problem.
After I used another image as a light source (I think it had a different scale), it stopped disappearing at the edge of the monitor.

Problem solved!
Didn't thought of that nice
twosnakes

#473 Sep 11, 2023, 08:58 PM Source

Hey @Shora, how are things looking on the optimization front(MV)?
Shora

#474 Sep 12, 2023, 04:47 AM Source

Hello everyone. The plugin is currently being refactored/rewrote for better performance and scalability for the 2.0 version. It is almost complete, but unfortunately for the next month I'm gonna be mostly unavailable for personal reason. I will try to give support when I have time.

Nightshade said:
i know you can give an event Light source but how do you give a follower a light source?
It is currently implemented, but if you have some knowledge with Javascript you can directly modify the code to give light to any Game_Character you want.

Seedspreaderent said:
Did anyone figure out the shorthand for these overrides? I am trying to override the Color Tint.
You can use --tint <color>. Ex: [light --tint #FF0000]

Splatterguy said:
Hello everyone!
I really love the light plugin -ShoraLighting-.js!!!
But I've got one problem:
The light's turn off as soon as the actor is not within 8 or 10 tiles of them.
Is there a solution for this? With similar plugIns, you can set the range of the lights to be charged. But I would much rather use this PlugIn.

Kind regards
-Splatterguy-
I will try to look into this. But this is mostly an issue with the optimization of automatically turn off the light when it is not in screen ("culling"). You can try some other solution mentioned above like using a different image.

twosnakes said:
Hey @Shora, how are things looking on the optimization front(MV)?
I think the optimization is already pretty good in the lastest 1.9.1 version, did you still get worse FPS? Can you send some performance profile in your application?
Nightshade

#475 Sep 12, 2023, 01:06 PM Source

thanky shora : )
konekon

#476 Sep 22, 2023, 03:09 PM Source

hello! can somebody help me with my problem? lights are working but main hero just can't move. he don't react on any buttons
Nightshade

#477 Sep 22, 2023, 04:59 PM Source

It is currently implemented, but if you have some knowledge with Javascript you can directly modify the code to give light to any Game_Character you want.

I don't know how to do this XD
DourGames

#478 Sep 24, 2023, 05:05 PM Source

Hey everyone, this might be something obvious I've overlooked, but how do you assign the player to have its own light?

Nevermind, I figured it out! For anyone stuck, you have to have an item in your inventory that has the [light] tag in the comments. You can then add or remove the item to control if the light is on or off, and you can make it a Hidden Item in the item options so the player doesn't see that it's there.
SangHendrix

#479 Sep 27, 2023, 05:45 AM Source

Hi Shora! Is there a way to disable lights by default and only enable them on a specific map, like a map with notetag [lighting on]?
ShadowDragon

#480 Sep 27, 2023, 12:42 PM Source

@SangHendrix why not using the scriptcall to disable it and erase the event?
with a conditional branch, you can control it there too, so it doesn't need to remember
the MapId when ON or OFF.
SangHendrix

#481 Sep 28, 2023, 01:49 AM Source

ShadowDragon said:
@SangHendrix why not using the scriptcall to disable it and erase the event?
with a conditional branch, you can control it there too, so it doesn't need to remember
the MapId when ON or OFF.
If you have a lot of maps then you'd need to call that script on every map, which is not ideal and not the quickest way, because the plugin is enabled on all maps by default. Regardless of that, I've figured out how to make it disabled by default and only enable it on a map with note [lighting on].

Here's how if someone needs it:
Find this line: this.lightingState = !$gameLighting._disabled,
And change it to: this.lightingState = false,
ShadowDragon

#482 Sep 28, 2023, 08:30 AM Source

I thought there was a comment tag to set the status of the event light
to OFF as well by switch or comment to turn them on.

it depends how the mechanic work and if they stay ON when you transfer
back to the map.

glad you get it working though.