Quasi Simple Shadows

Quxios · 2016-03-15T12:06:33+0900

Quasi Simple Shadows Version - 1.00 by Quasi About This plugin adds a simple shadow casting feature to character sprites. I consider this plugin simple because it is not dynamic, advanced and is not a real shadow casting. Though I do plan on creating a real shadow casting once MV can use pixi v3+. By real shadow casting I mean something like Twitter Video Links Github - Download Setting up a “shadow casting” source To set up a shadow source, you will add a note in the event with in one of the following formats: or RADIUS: Set to the radius of the source, in pixels.FLOCKERSTR: How strong the flicker should be.FLICKERDELAY: A value for a random wait between flickers.If you use the first one, it will use the default Radius set in the plugin parameters and it will have no flicker. Adding / Removing a “shadow casting” source To Add a “shadow casting” use the following plugin command: quasi addShadowSource CHARAID SHADOWRADIUS FLICKERSTR FLICKERDELAY CHARAID: Set to the Event ID or 0 for the playerSHADOWRADIUS: Set to the radius of the shadow source in pixels. If let empty it will use the plugins parameters default value.FLICKERSTR: Set to the flicker strength of the shadow. If let empty there will be no flicker.FLICKERDELAY: Set to the flicker delay of the shadow. If let empty it will have a delay of 1 To Remove a “shadow casting” use the following plugin command: quasi removeShadowSource CHARAID SHADOWRADIUS CHARAID: Set to the Event ID or 0 for the playerSHADOWRADIUS: Set to the radius of the shadow source in pixels. If let empty it will use the plugins parameters default value Adding / Removing a shadow from a character To hide an Events shadow by default add the following note inside the event: To Hide a characters shadow use the following plugin command: quasi hideShadow CHARAID CHARAID: Set to the Event ID or 0 for the player To Show a characters shadow use the following plugin command: quasi showShadow CHARAID CHARAID: Set to the Event ID or 0 for the player Other Again this is just a really simple shadow addon, nothing dynamic.

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Started by Quxios Mar 15, 2016, 03:06 AM 20 posts View original ↗

Quxios

#1 Mar 15, 2016, 03:06 AM Source

Quasi Simple Shadows Version - 1.00

by Quasi

About
This plugin adds a simple shadow casting feature to character sprites. I consider this plugin simple because it is not dynamic, advanced and is not a real shadow casting. Though I do plan on creating a real shadow casting once MV can use pixi v3+. By real shadow casting I mean something like Twitter Video

Links

Github - Download

Setting up a “shadow casting” source

To set up a shadow source, you will add a note in the event with in one of the following formats:

<shadowSource>

or

<shadowSource:RADIUS,FLICKERSTR,FLICKERDELAY>

RADIUS: Set to the radius of the source, in pixels.FLOCKERSTR: How strong the flicker should be.FLICKERDELAY: A value for a random wait between flickers.If you use the first one, it will use the default Radius set in the plugin parameters and it will have no flicker.

Adding / Removing a “shadow casting” source

To Add a “shadow casting” use the following plugin command:

quasi addShadowSource CHARAID SHADOWRADIUS FLICKERSTR FLICKERDELAY

CHARAID: Set to the Event ID or 0 for the playerSHADOWRADIUS: Set to the radius of the shadow source in pixels. If let empty it will use the plugins parameters default value.FLICKERSTR: Set to the flicker strength of the shadow. If let empty there will be no flicker.FLICKERDELAY: Set to the flicker delay of the shadow. If let empty it will have a delay of 1

To Remove a “shadow casting” use the following plugin command:

quasi removeShadowSource CHARAID SHADOWRADIUS

CHARAID: Set to the Event ID or 0 for the playerSHADOWRADIUS: Set to the radius of the shadow source in pixels. If let empty it will use the plugins parameters default value

Adding / Removing a shadow from a character

To hide an Events shadow by default add the following note inside the event:

<noShadow>

To Hide a characters shadow use the following plugin command:

quasi hideShadow CHARAID

CHARAID: Set to the Event ID or 0 for the player

To Show a characters shadow use the following plugin command:

quasi showShadow CHARAID

CHARAID: Set to the Event ID or 0 for the player

Other

Again this is just a really simple shadow addon, nothing dynamic.
Kyuukon

#2 Mar 15, 2016, 03:43 AM Source

Always looking forward your stuff. Very good work. Thanks :D !
McSundae

#3 Mar 16, 2016, 08:55 AM Source

That's a script i have been waiting for :D

Combined with a lightning script this can give really improve the atmosphere :)
Quxios

#4 Mar 16, 2016, 06:51 PM Source

Thanks! And yeah I didn't really plan on making this, I was going to wait for a pixi v3+ since that make creating a real lighting with dynamic shadows much easier. But I made this out of a request so enjoy!
KaYsEr

#5 Mar 16, 2016, 07:38 PM Source

It will be great as we wait for pixi3, good job!
Quxios

#6 Mar 17, 2016, 10:05 PM Source

Well I added 1 extra feature. You can turn on / off shadows for characters.

Details for that here: http://quasixi.com/quasi-simple-shadows/

New Version:

https://github.com/quasixi/Quasi-MV-Master-Demo/blob/master/js/plugins/QuasiSimpleShadows.js

Edit:
I should mention I retyped the old plugin call.

Instead of:

quasi addShadow

it is now:

quasi addShadowSource

Same for the remove. Sorry for any inconvenience
Siul

#7 Mar 18, 2016, 01:04 AM Source

Hello there Quasi!

I'm always a fan of masks and so since it could be an overwhelming feat for the shadows and so. In fact, I always encourage you to think about parallaxing even when I know It has to be so hard to implement.

Anyways, good job as always.
Quxios

#8 Mar 18, 2016, 01:46 AM Source

That's not something we can do until pixi v3 + since v2 doesn't have support for masks on sprites.
-Kain-

#9 Mar 19, 2016, 06:14 PM Source

Stack Level too deep, cant save the game, if the plugin turns on.
Quxios

#10 Mar 19, 2016, 07:51 PM Source

Thanks for letting me know! I would have never caught that.

https://github.com/quasixi/Quasi-MV-Master-Demo/blob/master/js/plugins/QuasiSimpleShadows.js

Hopefully that's fixed now
-Kain-

#11 Mar 20, 2016, 12:19 PM Source

Thank you, it works now. :)
-Kain-

#12 Mar 20, 2016, 04:55 PM Source

Hello it is me again :).

Can you add a Command to add Lightsource to an Event? And a region block for a cut off appearance of the shadow would be nicely!

For Example: i turn a lamp on and i call the command "quasi addlightsource EV ID"

At the moment it is like this:
Quxios

#13 Mar 20, 2016, 05:58 PM Source

This plugin isn't a lighting plugin. It just adds very simple shadows. You can use this together with any existing lighting plugins to make them look nice together. And I won't be adding any masking until mv gets pixi v3+.
-Kain-

#14 Mar 20, 2016, 06:23 PM Source

I use the Eventcode "Set Event Location" to teleport the lamp with the <lightsource> Note inside to workaround this. But its awkward. An script call would be smarter.
Quxios

#15 Mar 20, 2016, 06:32 PM Source

oh well if you mean the <lightSource> note tag from this plugin, then you can turn on / off a "light source" for an event using a plugin command

quasi addShadowSource CHARAID

can also remove them too. I just renamed the command to shadowSource, because lightSource is somewhat incorrect and can be misleading since this isn't a lighting plugin. I just forgot to rename the note tags lol.

That information is on the plugins instruction page:

http://quasixi.com/quasi-simple-shadows/
-Kain-

#16 Mar 20, 2016, 06:47 PM Source

Im am using the following plugin command to add a shadow source on Event ID 002:

quasi addShadowSource 2

But it add nothing, i am using the call wrong?
Quxios

#17 Mar 20, 2016, 07:12 PM Source

Just looked and you're right, it's a bug ( kind of ) I just forgot to mention that you're suppose to add the shadow radius in the plugin command.

quasi addShadowSource CHARAID SHADOWRADIUS

Here's a new version:

https://github.com/quasixi/Quasi-MV-Master-Demo/blob/master/js/plugins/QuasiSimpleShadows.js

If you don't include the shadow radius, it will use the plugins default radius.

I also changed the notetag from <lightSource> to <shadowSource> ( the old one still works, but better to use the new one to avoid confusion )

But on a side note:

Doing that would be the same as just having the

<lightSource>
note tag inside the event. All it does is add a radius around the event where if characters get close, they will start casting a shadow. The event that is the source of the shadows will not cast a shadow on it self if that's what you mean. So in your case, any event or player near event 2 will have a shadow, but event 2 will not have a shadow because event 2 is the source.
-Kain-

#18 Mar 20, 2016, 07:25 PM Source

Wow ^^ thank you for the help, but now i am getting an error if i am turn on or off via event xD. I hope youre not annoyed of me. I add you the failure in the console and the eventcode.

Spoiler

Event Page 1

Event Page 2
Quxios

#19 Mar 20, 2016, 07:37 PM Source

Lol it's no problem, bug reports / crashes / issues are always welcome.

Should be fixed now.

https://github.com/quasixi/Quasi-MV-Master-Demo/blob/master/js/plugins/QuasiSimpleShadows.js
-Kain-

#20 Mar 20, 2016, 07:49 PM Source

Wow! Thank you so much ^^. Thumbs up! :rock-left: :D :rock-right: