Terrax Lighting system

No i man that once I activate the script, automaticly, it's activat on all my maps. So I ask myself where I need to tell witch map need to have it activatd.

The script only activates on maps that have at least 1 event with a light in the note-tag or if the map has 'daynight' in the map's tag.


So if you need maps that stay light, just don't put events with light-definitions in the note-tag, or leave the maptag empty.

Thanks for the info. But let say that I have days/night cycle and light only open at night. It's possible?

Updated the plugin and used those tags instead of my previous event's commands and recieved the same issue.

• My RPG Maker is updated
  
• screen resolution is 1920x1080
  
• All lighting events present remain the same as before
  

When the light plugin is activate it crashes with the same error, seems it's having problems with line 2489

Currently very messy (why do I have 2 wait commands in a row? :guffaw: ) but you can see the event I'm trying to make below.

It looks like you have an event somewhere that has a wrong colorvalue. The error is in the flashlight section, so its probably a flashlight.


I have updated the plugin to check for wrong colors, just download the latest version again (1.4.5). If the color used is wrong, it will


default back to black. So you probably will see an NPC that has no flashlight because the tag is wrong.

@Terrax


Is there a script call or plugin command to change the opacity of the black layer?


Thanks for the script btw, it's awesome.

What is the best way for make light for a windows, that need to light on one direction so... But I alwayt want inside of the house do no be black at all lol. Thanks

Updated the plugin and tried it on a map that contains flash lights, event lights, and the general terrain tag lights including some regional ones, the game functions without crashes but the frame rate is incredibly harsh giving about from what I can estimate almost 3 frames a second.


So my next plan was to copy the map- remove each light type and test at a time from removing flash light events to light events and so on- I've concluded that the updated plugin is infact having difficulties with events that have light tags including standard circular ones. When the map is left with nothing but region and terrain lighting the game lags almost as bad with the events but shortly afterwards runs smoother until gradually being the smoothest frame rate possible. Pausing also resets the lag briefly also.


I am however uncertain how to configure the screen size paramitters, my screen resolution may different to other players so I am uncertain what to do with it- and if it's an essential reason for my projects lag with the plugin. I'm sure you've kept things mostly the same except for the new functions, are there any drastic changes I should make with how light sources are executed?


Thank you :)

I don't think tile-lights are good for those kinds of effects, your better off creating a fast flash with the effect functions.




Plugin Command：effect_on_xy 192 192 600 #444488 5


This will create a short flash on coordinates 192,192 with radius 600, color white, 5 cycles (short flash)


It will be circular, but if you position it correct it might do the job.

@Terrax


Thank you for taking your time to answer my question. I really like this plugin, it does so much for the atmosphere that it's a must have.
Unfortunately this thunder lighting I'm trying to make does not want to work for me. I can get the note tags part of the plugin to work just fine but plugin commands referring to "TileRegion" and the above suggested "effect_on_xy" does not work at all?

I've disabled all plugins except YEP_CoreEngine, YEP_RegionRestrictions and GALV's LayerGraphics. Furthermore, TerraxLighting is at the top of the listed plugins.
I also have a small "wall light" placed next to the window on the east wall. It has the note tag: "Light 40 #aca1a1 D2". There is also another event placed at the center of the map a few screens away, as to not make it pitch dark. That event have this note tag: "Light 1000 #726565"

Plugin call : Tint set #333333


For more opacity, increase the color value upwards.


Plugin call : Tint set #000000  : total darkness


Plugin call : Tint set #222222  : very dark


Plugin call : Tint set #444444  : dark


Plugin call : Tint set #666666  : early dawn


Improved flashlight and square beams for windows are next on the development list, after frame-rate improvements.


I've been doing some testing on framerates and there are some improvements that 'm going to work on


Currently the plugin works like this


- Each frame update, all the events are scanned if they contain lights. if they do a lightsource is made. If you have a lot of events this scanning can take a lot of time.


--> improvement : Scan all events on map-load and save them. In subsequent scans, only update the mapsources that have lights.


--> expected problem : A way to handle spawned events that have lightsources, since they do not exist on mapload. Plugin call  to counter this effect.


- Each frame update, the complete map is scanned for region and tag lights -> more then 3 tag/region lights takes 3 scan and kill framerates in a dramatic way.


--> improvement : Build a stack on map-load and in subsequent scans work from the stack instead of continues slow mapscans.


This is what i'm going to focus on first, before new features.


I've updated the plugin on Github, it includes a speed-test function you can call. If displays the average time in ms that plugin takes


each cycle to update the screen.


You can use : Plugin command : 'script speedtest on' to display the timer.


The timer will appear after 500 cycles have past, and give the average time it took to complete a cycle messured over 500 cycles.)


It will give you a clue to what is causing the most delay in your game. Give it a test and ill get started on what causes most delays.

I want to know, if we want some option that was unlikly to be included in the script before a lot of time,


did you accept paid job for add it?

Just to confirm before I proceed with this little update, although I do use Galv's spawn event plugin- no events spawned whatsoever contain light sources as I use graphical tricks to simulate as if they were spawning (Cars)