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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zak327

#523 Nov 28, 2023, 06:24 AM Source

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
I know, right? I can't figure it out either. Will give it a try though!
shepard82

#524 Nov 28, 2023, 04:05 PM Source

First of all great if not the best lighting plugin for MV.
Would like to ask if region lights are implemented in the plugin and if so how to use them.
Also if I am using MV 1.6.1 which verion of the plugin is the best to use?
jackass__

#525 Nov 29, 2023, 02:07 AM Source

Hi everyone,
I use Mog WeatherEx with this plugin and the weather layer is above the light tint layer,

Is there a way to display the light tint over the weather one ?
shepard82

#526 Nov 29, 2023, 07:57 AM Source

I am experiencing fps dips from 60 to 30 during play test and deployed game.
I have a 80 x 80 parallax map. When the plugin is turned off there is no issue.
I have tried on new project with the same map but still the same issue. Any ideas on how to fix it
leshik0104

#527 Nov 29, 2023, 08:06 AM Source

Shora said:
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:

ShadowDragon said:
@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.
omgg thanks! it works.
another dumb question - why light passes through the wall in my test project? is this feature or am i doing something wrong
jackass__

#528 Nov 29, 2023, 08:30 AM Source

shepard82 said:
I am experiencing fps dips from 60 to 30 during play test and deployed game.
I have a 80 x 80 parallax map. When the plugin is turned off there is no issue.
I have tried on new project with the same map but still the same issue. Any ideas on how to fix it
Same but not sure this is only linked to this plugin.. It did the same problem with community lighting mz, don't know why
Any idea ? seem like when rmmz use too much ressources it block the fps cap to 30, you can see this when your computer is on low power too (portable)..
ShadowDragon

#529 Nov 29, 2023, 10:42 AM Source

@leshik0104 & @jackass__ if you have problem, read the helpfile,
region is set in the parameter if member reserved and arent "tile terrain tags"
with the number on it.

I use it on my side game alot, so I must check that as it is delayed,
but tile terrain tag can be 0 and region is set elsewhere.

if it's not in the parameter or map note tag, I need to check where it was
set for this.

small edit:
check demo otherwise, everything is explained in there, at least 90% or more :D
zak327

#530 Nov 30, 2023, 12:06 AM Source

I know If you want to increase FPS, turn the "pulse" effect off. Turning "flicker" off may help too, but I know for sure that I can't use the pulse at all.
VictorAR

#531 Nov 30, 2023, 02:28 PM Source

SangHendrix said:
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,
It works! I've been looking for this for an hour!
Thank you very much sir.
Bladeboy05

#532 Dec 9, 2023, 07:10 PM Source

Hi everyone, why is it that when I activate the plugin my map is dark? How do I turn that feature off?
ShadowDragon

#533 Dec 13, 2023, 10:09 PM Source

you need to configure the parameters, I would suggest to check the demo.
which explain everything.
QuizicalGin

#534 Dec 15, 2023, 08:39 PM Source

I don't think map note tags work at all? They work to turn the lighting off, but to change the lighting from the default for just one map it doesn't seem to work at all?
ShadowDragon

#535 Dec 15, 2023, 09:35 PM Source

@QuizicalGin Map Notetags does work, check the demo or parameters
how to use them, adjust them if needed, some are advanced settings
if you know what you do, basic help you up and running ;)
QuizicalGin

#536 Dec 16, 2023, 09:43 PM Source

I have checked the demo and recreated it both my main game and test files. In both of them it isn't working. [lighting off] works, but [ambient evening] for example does not.
ShadowDragon

#537 Dec 25, 2023, 11:09 AM Source

if you copied everything over and required, make sure it exist
in the parameter, if that option is used inside the demo, check
map notetags and some events and its parameter targetting it.

it could be you miss something or doesn't exist when transfering
things over as some could be added after the default setup.

you can copy paste the struct if you miss some of those and paste
the copy stuff in there.

otherwise, @Shora need to take a look what you did wrong.
make sure you got the latest version as I there was some restructure
of the plugin to boost performance.
Ziorke

#538 Jan 9, 2024, 12:37 PM Source

Looks very nice, thank you for your hard work so much!!!
i work with parallax, would be nice to have ''light image'' can be same as character or +-Z layers
so light can be above or below, but still thank you so much!
Character looks abit strange in the video its still test, no 8 dir diagonal mov. and idle anim is not so good :D
Nerghray

#539 Jan 11, 2024, 02:16 PM Source

This plugin is wonderful, it creates a very cool atmosphere but I have a problem that i couldn't figure out how to solve it:
If I set player starting position in a particular map the lights are ok (and they keep being ok in any room i go) but if i set the starting position in any other map the lights colors change and they keep the altered colors everywhere.
I attach some pics as example:

If i start here lights are ok

and the next rooms looks like this

but if i start for example here (or any other map) this happens

and those colors remain everywhere.

I can't figure out what makes them behave like this so I hope there is a solution :) thanks in advance
Visya999

#540 Jan 18, 2024, 09:05 AM Source

Help! I still have light from the previous location when moving to the next location, and besides, when I left and entered the game, the light disappears altogether
ShadowDragon

#541 Jan 20, 2024, 11:14 AM Source

@Visya999 can you show a gif or screenshot between those and possible
item/actor setup for those lights?

as it doesn't happen on my end though.
Visya999

#542 Jan 20, 2024, 01:53 PM Source

ShadowDragon said:
@Visya999 can you show a gif or screenshot between those and possible
item/actor setup for those lights?

as it doesn't happen on my end though.
[embedded media] Demo