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

#643 Jul 11, 2025, 06:18 PM Source

Neal_Sage said:
But i'm not using Ocram plugins
it doesn't have to do with ocram in general, as lights arent destroyed,
that patch could fix the battle light issues too, so it destroys and redraw
the light.

also your YEP plugins aren't in the correct order as well.
check his website or use the plugin of the order checker (link below)
so you can do it faster (only show your YEP plugins and tells you
how you should order them correctly.
Neal_Sage

#644 Jul 17, 2025, 09:56 AM Source

Can anyone help me? How to turn on and off light in an event? I don't know if its use script or Plugin command as long as its works cause in both of the demo project...i can only turn it off and not on again...agh...its been 2 days trying to do it...

Oh yeah...i'm using RMMV

Plugin command in the first page of this thread doesn't work. Script in the demo project can turn it off but not on. Looking inside the code can't find anything...

Red switch is plugin command.
Yellow was script call
ShadowDragon

#645 Jul 17, 2025, 10:01 AM Source

I think the plugin command is wrong and should be
Status 7 OFF

I don't know if OFF can be off or Off as well, but that should do the trick.
otherwise, use scriptcall 0 = off, 1 = on
Neal_Sage

#646 Jul 17, 2025, 10:06 AM Source

without <>? wth... okay...command to turn off is green now nice... but how to turn it on? god sorry if i look like rantings.

update: Found it after asking Gemini 2.5 Pro
Here:

Plugin command for turn on and off are:
status event id on/off

(Without anything just space.)
example
status 7 on
will turn on light on event 7
Ragnax

#647 Aug 17, 2025, 04:58 PM Source

Hi. I recently began working with RPG Maker and found your plugin very useful. However, I have some questions:

Is there a way to change a Color from the Colors: Defined list using a script inside an event?
For example, I have a "Lamp1" color, which is (for example) #efe4af by default, but I want to make it #fc3f1a at some point, so that all lights that use "Lamp1" color would change their colors.

Additionally, I would like to know if it's possible to input multiple light IDs in the Set Light Parameters Plugin Command. (That would kinda be a fine alternative to my first problem, although it would be nice to have both options.)

Is there a script to change the light's image?
Or maybe a way to change the light type using a conditional branch?
For example, during the day event uses "smoldering_lamp" and at night, "lit_lamp".
otkus

#648 Aug 18, 2025, 09:31 AM Source

Ragnax said:
Hi. I recently began working with RPG Maker and found your plugin very useful. However, I have some questions:

Is there a way to change a Color from the Colors: Defined list using a script inside an event?
For example, I have a "Lamp1" color, which is (for example) #efe4af by default, but I want to make it #fc3f1a at some point, so that all lights that use "Lamp1" color would change their colors.

Additionally, I would like to know if it's possible to input multiple light IDs in the Set Light Parameters Plugin Command. (That would kinda be a fine alternative to my first problem, although it would be nice to have both options.)

Is there a script to change the light's image?
Or maybe a way to change the light type using a conditional branch?
For example, during the day event uses "smoldering_lamp" and at night, "lit_lamp".
It think you can do these things by having an event change pages based on a condition? For example, a variable or switch to indicate night/day etc that changes the event page to one with different lighting info and image/sprite.
Ragnax

#649 Aug 18, 2025, 09:43 AM Source

otkus said:
It think you can do these things by having an event change pages based on a condition? For example, a variable or switch to indicate night/day etc that changes the event page to one with different lighting info and image/sprite.
Yeah, that might work for the last 2 questions, thanks.
Do you know anything about defined color change and IDs?
Sternenprinzessin

#650 Oct 14, 2025, 10:40 PM Source

This Plugin is great. i just wish it would make such a "jump" when you walk around a corner. Everything else is so smooth
kiskutnya

#651 Oct 16, 2025, 10:16 PM Source

Hi! I'm currently using this plugin for my game. Everything was working wonderfully for a while, but now all of my windows are super blurry for some reason? I'm not sure why or what the issue is. I've been trying to fix it for ages TwT
If someone could help me I'd be eternally appreciative!
mikesproductions04

#652 Nov 10, 2025, 02:45 PM Source

Hello, this is a wonderful plug-in that creates some truly immersive lighting with ease. I ran into a compatibility issue with Galv action indicators plug-in. I am using MV. The bug is that whenever I have an action indicator comment on an event, the event becomes lit despite the event having no lighting command.

This unfortunately really interferes with atmospheric lighting, because I’m trying to make a horror game, and yet this bug causes so many things to be lit.

I have attached an image that seems to highlight the compatibility issue.

If anyone could figure out how to resolve this issue, I would be very grateful.
Hermanoteu

#653 Jan 18, 2026, 11:08 PM Source

Hello, I'm using the Shora Lighting Plugin for RPG Maker MZ and have a question about handling multiple height levels with regions.

I’m creating mountainous maps with a lot of vertical variation.
My map uses region 11 as the lowest ground level, and higher regions indicate higher elevations. Unmarked areas are considered walls.
[ISPOILER][/ISPOILER]

The problem:
If I place a block of height 4 on top of an area already marked as height 2, the system doesn’t recognize it as a separate elevation—it seems to treat everything as a single combined block.

What I want:
I’d like the system to recognize stacked elevations so I can create multi-layered terrain, like cliffs on top of plateaus, without the shadow system flattening everything into one height level.

Question:
Is there a way to make the plugin support stacked or cumulative heights using regions? Or is there a workaround to simulate multiple elevation layers?

Thank you in advance for any guidance.

(Translated from Portuguese for clarity)
ShadowDragon

#654 Jan 22, 2026, 03:16 PM Source

I know regions is used to determine the height of the cliff/wall so it wont
shine.

I don't know if there is a work around that to, other than terrain Tag.
but this require a special single tile, to determine the height (1-7).
if higher, than this won't work either.

I have no idea how to make this light work in your case with that many regions.
Blockbird

#655 Feb 20, 2026, 01:38 PM Source

I set up walls and their tops with region tags, currently comment: [light street] set on the lights pictured will be partially eaten by the walls, is there a way to fix this?
Sternenprinzessin

#656 Feb 28, 2026, 04:52 PM Source

Blockbird said:
I set up walls and their tops with region tags, currently comment: [light street] set on the lights pictured will be partially eaten by the walls, is there a way to fix this?View attachment 361228
Because of this, I use the older version without this problem but I don't know why it's happening in the newest one
Forgone_Fantasy23

#657 Mar 19, 2026, 02:26 AM Source

So pretty cool plugin but I was wondering. The battle lighting only has on or off. I don't want the monsters or actors to generate lights at the start of the battle, but the only option seems to be to turn off battle lighting. Which creates a huge mismatch in the atmospheric lighting when going from a dark room into a unfiltered battle. Is there any way to turn off the light generation for monsters and actors?
ModderOfGames

#658 Mar 30, 2026, 08:07 PM Source

are there any plugins like this that let events cast shadows? I haven't been able to find any that don't have a few weird bugs or are generally a lot more simple.