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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Shora

#503 Oct 24, 2023, 11:15 AM Source

Hey there! After receiving feedback from everyone, I had temporary update both the 1.8 and 1.9 version of the plugin to a new version with a minor addition: the Automatic Item Lighting will not usable if you are using Yanfly's Item Core plugin (and instead you will have to use plugin that allow you to run plugin command/ script when you have/lost an item). From the description of the issue, I think this issue will be pretty easy to fix, but the main problem is that I don't have Yanfly Item Core and Yanfly Party System, so it impossible for me to identifying and fixing the issue.

@Magic_Turtle @JBo Please check if your projects can be played right now without any issue. It'd be great if you guys could send a simple demo for showcasing the problem to me, I'd really appreciate that! Most of the past bugs have been solved this way, since I can't have most of your plugins because they are put behind a paywall.

For now, the 1.8.6/1.9.3 version on the itch.io site will safely ignore the gainItem function for your project to be started correctly. Thanks for understanding!
Dark_Ansem

#504 Oct 24, 2023, 11:39 AM Source

thank you for your continued work :)
Dark_Ansem

#505 Oct 24, 2023, 05:32 PM Source

@Shora
I'm a bit confused by how realtime shadows are meant to work - do they get shaped from pixel transparency or shadows are simply solid black?

Example: a gate with some transparency in it because it is made of bars, will the shadow follow the opaque pixels or will it simply project a solid shadow?
JBo

#506 Oct 24, 2023, 09:30 PM Source

Hey there! I am pleased you seek to fix the issue. I will test the new update tomorrow. If it does not work I will make the demo as per requested.
The plugin you have made is an incredible one and I look forward to the significant polish and beauty it is going to add to the game in progress.
Some information on the issue is that the Yanfly Party System allows it to work when you remove the characters from the starting system database section. Adding the characters in manually later makes it work. However, when you change the party max members *using a plugin command* it once again does not work. I will show you the demo with the issues, as soon as I get time.

Thank you for your efforts and for your response to the request. I respect your efforts to provide this wonderful plugin to the community.

Shora said:
Hey there! After receiving feedback from everyone, I had temporary update both the 1.8 and 1.9 version of the plugin to a new version with a minor addition: the Automatic Item Lighting will not usable if you are using Yanfly's Item Core plugin (and instead you will have to use plugin that allow you to run plugin command/ script when you have/lost an item). From the description of the issue, I think this issue will be pretty easy to fix, but the main problem is that I don't have Yanfly Item Core and Yanfly Party System, so it impossible for me to identifying and fixing the issue.

@Magic_Turtle @JBo Please check if your projects can be played right now without any issue. It'd be great if you guys could send a simple demo for showcasing the problem to me, I'd really appreciate that! Most of the past bugs have been solved this way, since I can't have most of your plugins because they are put behind a paywall.

For now, the 1.8.6/1.9.3 version on the itch.io site will safely ignore the gainItem function for your project to be started correctly. Thanks for understanding!
Shora

#507 Oct 25, 2023, 11:28 AM Source

Dark_Ansem said:
@Shora
I'm a bit confused by how realtime shadows are meant to work - do they get shaped from pixel transparency or shadows are simply solid black?

Example: a gate with some transparency in it because it is made of bars, will the shadow follow the opaque pixels or will it simply project a solid shadow?
You could control all the shadow transparency from the plugin manager parameters, in the "Default: Shadow Ambient" section. I could add the ability to give different shape of shadow caster different transparency, but since I don't think it a demanded feature, I will put it aside for now.
Dark_Ansem

#508 Oct 25, 2023, 11:30 AM Source

What I meant was more like, look at this gate - with your plugin, would the shadow only effectively be projected by the parts of it that are opaque, so the shadow would mimic the shape of the gate?
Shora

#509 Oct 25, 2023, 11:36 AM Source

Dark_Ansem said:
View attachment 281379
What I meant was more like, look at this gate - with your plugin, would the shadow only effectively be projected by the parts of it that are opaque, so the shadow would mimic the shape of the gate?
As for this, sorry, currently the shadow will only work with polygon shape, not any image shape. I understand there are some plugin currently could do this by transform the shape from the source of the light, but my plugin not working like that. I would really like to add that as a option in the future.
Dark_Ansem

#510 Oct 25, 2023, 11:38 AM Source

Shora said:
As for this, sorry, currently the shadow will only work with polygon shape, not any image shape. I understand there are some plugin currently could do this by transform the shape from the source of the light, but my plugin not working like that. I would really like to add that as a option in the future.
Thats OK, it is possibly unrealistic to expect this from a pixel art game, thank you for clarifying that
Shora

#511 Oct 25, 2023, 02:40 PM Source

JBo said:
Hey there! I am pleased you seek to fix the issue. I will test the new update tomorrow. If it does not work I will make the demo as per requested.
The plugin you have made is an incredible one and I look forward to the significant polish and beauty it is going to add to the game in progress.
Some information on the issue is that the Yanfly Party System allows it to work when you remove the characters from the starting system database section. Adding the characters in manually later makes it work. However, when you change the party max members *using a plugin command* it once again does not work. I will show you the demo with the issues, as soon as I get time.

Thank you for your efforts and for your response to the request. I respect your efforts to provide this wonderful plugin to the community.
The issue is now fixed, thanks @ShadowDragon for the support on Yanfly's end.
It is now able to use the item lighting function freely with Yanfly's Party System and Item Core.
Please check it if you have any issue!
JBo

#512 Oct 25, 2023, 07:53 PM Source

Shora said:
The issue is now fixed, thanks @ShadowDragon for the support on Yanfly's end.
It is now able to use the item lighting function freely with Yanfly's Party System and Item Core.
Please check it if you have any issue!
It works, I am so happy—no more loading issues. Thank you so much. I respect your efforts to make it compatible with the yanfly plugins.
Have a great day!
I can continue to make the game I am working on have epic lights and shadows!
woootbm

#513 Oct 26, 2023, 05:45 AM Source

Heya, sorry I didn't dig through all of the posts. But can you think of a reason why turning on this plugin breaks my movement routes? I do have a lot of Yanfly plugins like Region Events, but I don't see why any of them would cause this.
ShadowDragon

#514 Oct 26, 2023, 10:37 AM Source

@woootbm what exact moveroutes do you talk about and do you have
an sample of it?

so I can check on my end, the only possibility I can think of is region confliction,
what I mean with that is, if you use region 5 for moveroute and 5 from lightning
because of walls 5 heights, that it doesn't work correctly.

if this is not the case, explain a bit more, so the target cause would be easier
to alter or edited in the event itself if its not the plugin.
woootbm

#515 Oct 26, 2023, 05:40 PM Source

Events with a “custom” move route, and using “set movement route” on the player via an event. I’m already using regions 1-10, so I tried to alter the settings of the plugin to use regions 200+ so they would stay out of the way.
ShadowDragon

#516 Oct 27, 2023, 07:47 AM Source

I dont have that problem on testing with custom move route and set movement
on player, it works as intended.

can you to disable other regions plugin and check if that works for a test?
if that works, than its conflicting with the region plugin, but it's hard to tell.
QuizicalGin

#517 Nov 3, 2023, 12:12 AM Source

Wanted to poke here as well about terrain tags to see if they're usable. Both the itch page and thread say that it's an option, but the settings don't seem to be enabled, and another commenter on the itch page noted that it wasn't. Is it a feature that can be used currently, and I haven't figured out how, or is it a future feature? :kaohi:
zak327

#518 Nov 17, 2023, 03:30 AM Source

First I want to start off with, This Is my favorite plugin. Without It, I find it pointless to even create anything, but I think there are some problems. I would love to have them worked out, and If so, I will buy your plugin. I'm not a programmer per se, so I am pretty nubish even though I played rpg maker 2k back in the day. Anyways, Here are some screen captures. What Is strange Is the older version of Shora works and the 1.9.4 version does not. By works, I mean the game loads up and everything Is fine, but SOMETIMES It doesn't and It makes no sense to me.
and then...

If I reboot game test again, It works usually and I get...

Ok. So, This Is why I love It lol.
I even had this game lag because of the plugin and worked my way out of It somehow and
truly fear I'm going to lose everything i worked hard for.
Ultimately my question Is, what don't I understand and how can I fix this?
Please....please, help.
ShadowDragon

#519 Nov 18, 2023, 02:58 PM Source

can we see your event page?
leshik0104

#520 Nov 25, 2023, 07:39 PM Source

it might be a stupid question, but how can i actually make my main character as the light source? like on this gif

Shora said:

Gallery

:kaoluv:
ShadowDragon

#521 Nov 26, 2023, 02:57 PM Source

@leshik0104
set in actor notetag: [light N]

[light light] might suffice, as it suffice, if you change the name, replace N
with the name you used in the parameter.
Shora

#522 Nov 27, 2023, 02:27 PM Source

QuizicalGin said:
Wanted to poke here as well about terrain tags to see if they're usable. Both the itch page and thread say that it's an option, but the settings don't seem to be enabled, and another commenter on the itch page noted that it wasn't. Is it a feature that can be used currently, and I haven't figured out how, or is it a future feature? :kaohi:
I have done that feature before beginning to refactor my code to version 2.0. It was supposed to be released alongside v2, but the release of v2 was kinda stretched.. I will try to release it as soon as possible, but if you’re interested in using it early, you can leave me a message in my Discord! I will send it for anyone willing to test. :kaoluv:

zak327 said:
First I want to start off with, This Is my favorite plugin. Without It, I find it pointless to even create anything, but I think there are some problems. I would love to have them worked out, and If so, I will buy your plugin. I'm not a programmer per se, so I am pretty nubish even though I played rpg maker 2k back in the day. Anyways, Here are some screen captures. What Is strange Is the older version of Shora works and the 1.9.4 version does not. By works, I mean the game loads up and everything Is fine, but SOMETIMES It doesn't and It makes no sense to me.View attachment 284128
and then...
View attachment 284129
If I reboot game test again, It works usually and I get...

View attachment 284130
Ok. So, This Is why I love It lol.
I even had this game lag because of the plugin and worked my way out of It somehow and
truly fear I'm going to lose everything i worked hard for.
Ultimately my question Is, what don't I understand and how can I fix this?
Please....please, help.
Maybe it because the image is not loaded fast enough for the light to load. I will try to fix it in the next version. :kaoeh: Also, thanks for the beautiful picture!

leshik0104 said:
it might be a stupid question, but how can i actually make my main character as the light source? like on this gif
Hope you figured it out, but in case you didn't, it just set the [light <NAME>] command into the actor note, or in the item note if you want to use item instead. :kaohi: