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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rhapsodymipo

#41 Sep 10, 2021, 06:28 PM Source

Looks very promising. any updates?
SebyDevDev

#42 Sep 11, 2021, 10:46 AM Source

Hey there!
I've noticed that Khas' plugin has been inactive and it seems that this plugin is also in closed beta, so for those wanting to be able to use a lighting plugin with optimized shadows for their projects, I've developed a new one that takes advantage of GPU shadows instead of making the CPU do all of the work ^^
For now, the plugin has customizable lights, shadow map painting, and animated lights, and I've added a new poll to figure out what people would like to me to focus on first for the next version ^^
Here's the link:
MV - [MV+MZ] FIXED v1.6! Optimized Lighting with Real-Time Shadows (new: saving system fixed!)
Shora

#43 Sep 13, 2021, 02:07 PM Source

First beta version released! :D. Everyone can try it out. Just give me some feedback when you have any problem!.
Puffer

#44 Sep 13, 2021, 02:15 PM Source

Congratulation on the release of the first open beta version! Been looking forward to this for 2 years now :kaojoy:
supers0nic91

#45 Sep 13, 2021, 06:42 PM Source

Real shame this beta is only for MZ.
Shora

#46 Sep 14, 2021, 09:15 AM Source

BIG NEW: I have able to completely synchronize the MZ version to MV version. This mean a mv version with every feature of the MZ version i have developed for years is now can be released! :D. I'm working on converting the MZ demo to MV demo, so expect to see a MV beta release in some days! :D

supers0nic91
Thanks for your remainder ;). Actually i have try to do this for some time, but couldn't find a way other than parallel developing for two version so i just leave it aside.

tiabuni
Now it IS the focus, since both are one ;)

Note: My MV version still use the ES6 structure, but i don't know if anyone have a trouble with this. If needed i can convert it to the old style too, just time-consuming., and both the NWJS and the browser system should be able to support ES6 code. If you have any problem, just let me know! ;)
SilverR

#47 Sep 15, 2021, 07:50 AM Source

I love the dynamic lighting effect! Thanks for your work, I think this plugin is very helpful to make a game with beautiful graphics! :kaoluv:
Shora

#48 Sep 15, 2021, 08:28 AM Source

Update v.1.2b (15/9/2021)
- Now included MV versions! :D
- Changelog:
- Add new parameters: Shadow Ambient and Top Block Ambient. These two color are default choice for all light that not specified this setting. Allow user to control their light shadow ambient color and the ambient color affect top-block. Included two new plugin command to change these but only take effect on the next map.
- The MV version now will be merged to the MZ version and share their development in one plugin file. MZ version have the higher priority though, because PIXI V5 have better optimization for this plugin. MV Demo is completely converted from MZ's one.
- Fix various bugs.
Link to Demo

SilverR said:
I love the dynamic lighting effect! Thanks for your work, I think this plugin is very helpful to make a game with beautiful graphics! :kaoluv:
Thanks for you encouragement! :kaoluv: Feel freely to report any bugs and feedback any change/features you want to make, it highly appreciated! :D
rhapsodymipo

#49 Sep 17, 2021, 12:58 AM Source

Thanks for your work, it's looking great so far. Any plans on adding .png oriented shadows, just like the lights?
Shora

#50 Sep 17, 2021, 02:47 PM Source

rhapsodymipo said:
Thanks for your work, it's looking great so far. Any plans on adding .png oriented shadows, just like the lights?
Thanks for your encouragement.
As for image shadows, I don't think my plugin will support it. This is because my shadow doesn't work as "completely" top-down 2D shadow like Khas one or some other, but rather supports an in-depth wall visual in game. Since RPG Maker and its tilesets were originally made like (at least, fake) 2.5D games, it nicely blends into each other.
However, this does not mean that it does not support custom user-defined shadow shapes. In the current development stage, you can just put into something like a set of your shadow vertices (4 for a simple rectangle), and its height (0 for 2D top-down lighting), and you will have a nicely custom shadow. However since this is a bit complicated for beginners (for experience you can just edit the map and take each point manually to form desired shape), i haven't included this in the current demo yet. If you think this is a good way or thing of any way better, just feedback to me! :). It can help me to decide to put this in the next update, or implement a better way if you suggested. Currently I want to make an easy-to-use GUI to draw shadows directly on a map, but since I was in-experienced with GUIs it might take a long time to learn.
Rex Tenebris

#51 Sep 18, 2021, 04:02 PM Source

Shora said:

How can I open this on MZ? :(
Ariyana

#52 Sep 19, 2021, 02:57 PM Source

Edit:
I had the same issue as Ronnie. Adding "default" in [Lighting: Default]/Ref solves the problem.
Ronnie

#53 Sep 19, 2021, 03:21 PM Source

Plugin is good, thx for this.
How can I turn the lightning system on/off, so that the maps are back to normal in MV, and not completely dark? Because I don't need the plugin/system on every map.

Addition:
Getting errors when trying the plugin in my upcoming game, doesn't seem to be compatible with a few other plugins.
Shora

#54 Sep 19, 2021, 04:22 PM Source

Killuki Zaoldyeck said:
How can I open this on MZ? :(
Unfortunately I haven't included this in the current beta version. This is because the only purpose of that GUI was just to visualize how can the light be modified, so that GUI are developed in 1 day and very low effort. I'm finding a better way to let user modify their lighting and export it, so stay tuned! :). Also if you really want to try it, you can let me know, I can spend time update that old GUI to work with the current version, just don't be disappointed :(.

Ronnie said:
Plugin is good, thx for this.
How can I turn the lightning system on/off, so that the maps are back to normal in MV, and not completely dark? Because I don't need the plugin/system on every map.

Addition:
Getting errors when trying the plugin in my upcoming game, doesn't seem to be compatible with a few other plugins.
It is very easy to implement a way to turn on/off lighting on different maps but i haven't code it since the purpose of this current beta version is for everyone to try and test the plugin. But even though, a convenient way of turn off the light plugin is use the setMapAmbient plugin command
and set the color to completely white and time to 1 tick, before or after entering the map, and that should do it for you ;).

And in the picture you sent, if seem like the reason it bugging is not because of incompatible with other plugins (yet), but is because of the plugin parameters haven't been defined in the Plugin Manager. All the setting should have default value by me, but since I am making a lot of changes so i haven't included it yet (default value). So what you need to do is just go to the Plugin Parameters and clicking on every parameters that is blank (in the above case maybe parameters in [Lighting: Default]), and that should solve the problem.
If you have any problem, just let me know :).
Ronnie

#55 Sep 19, 2021, 06:44 PM Source

Thank you for your reply.
I did indeed forget about the Plugin Parameters aswell as the folder with the images, spend most of the time testing the included demo project. :LZYblush: So, I was able to get rid of the errors.

The Plugin Command you postet is for MZ but I'm using MV.
Do you also have the code for this?
There is only one line in the Plugin Commands for MV, so might need a solution for line breaking.

Addition:
Ok, got it to work found an event with a script under the demo project.
$gameLighting.setMapAmbient("#ffffff", 1)
The script first works when I press the confirm twice, so I just put two script lines in one event, and that solved the problem.
$gameLighting.setMapAmbient("#ffffff", 1)
$gameLighting.setMapAmbient("#ffffff", 1)
Shiko

#56 Sep 20, 2021, 07:47 PM Source

I cannot save my game (MV). It gives the same error on a fresh download of the demo so it's probably not on my side. And if I try to go back from the save screen after trying to save, the game crashes. other than that, really like the lightning, specially the smooth transition from the flashlight rotation!
Shora

#57 Sep 22, 2021, 06:26 AM Source

Ronnie said:
Thank you for your reply.
I did indeed forget about the Plugin Parameters aswell as the folder with the images, spend most of the time testing the included demo project. :LZYblush: So, I was able to get rid of the errors.

The Plugin Command you postet is for MZ but I'm using MV.
Do you also have the code for this?
There is only one line in the Plugin Commands for MV, so might need a solution for line breaking.

Addition:
Ok, got it to work found an event with a script under the demo project.
$gameLighting.setMapAmbient("#ffffff", 1)
The script first works when I press the confirm twice, so I just put two script lines in one event, and that solved the problem.
$gameLighting.setMapAmbient("#ffffff", 1)
$gameLighting.setMapAmbient("#ffffff", 1)
Glad to see you got it worked :). Actually there is a MV plugin command for this (ambient <color> <time>), but at the time I assumed you were using MZ xD. At least you figured out it yourself using the demo :). If you have any problem, don't hesitate asking! :D

Shiko said:
I cannot save my game (MV). It gives the same error on a fresh download of the demo so it's probably not on my side. And if I try to go back from the save screen after trying to save, the game crashes. other than that, really like the lightning, specially the smooth transition from the flashlight rotation!
The beta version was supposed just to test the lighting only, so right now I'm changing the code structure to fix the engine-related issues like saving/loading. It should be take in a little times, so stay tuned! :D. Also thanks for your encouragement :).
VaiJack8

#58 Sep 27, 2021, 01:20 PM Source

Fantastic plugin! I'm using a Day/Night cycle plugin, too, but it makes use of the default screen tone. ~~Would it be possible to use the default tone event for this lighting system instead of the hex one? Just asking xD~~

UPDATE: I created some common events which make the two plugins compatible.

You know what I like about this lighting system? It's the only one drawing shadows correctly behind tall tiles, instead of on top of them. It's so freakin' realistic. Thank you.
VaiJack8

#59 Sep 30, 2021, 09:57 AM Source

Alrite so: I'm having troubles setting up a parallel process with the command "Set Map Ambient". Basically, if I try to create a new parallel event which will change the Map Ambient, when I add "Erase Event" at the end, the command will not execute. I cannot leave the event always running in the background because it also contains other events that need to only execute once. Is this wanted or is it a bug? :v

UPDATE: The command works if I add it twice. It's weird but I can work with it, since I mostly use a big common event for lighting.
Arise501

#60 Oct 1, 2021, 09:31 PM Source

Is there a reason why "help" is empty? Or where can I get the plugin commands for MV?

supers0nic91​

tiabuni​

supers0nic91

tiabuni