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[Kylock]

Light Effects VX
by Kylock (originally for RMXP by Near Fantastica)

This script will make things glow. A screenshot will explain it best.



#==============================================================================
# ● Change Log
#------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# 1.0 - Original Release
# 1.1 - New light modes added: LIGHT2, TORCH, TORCH2
# - Changed sprite blend mode to ADD (looks slightly better)
# - Fire-based lights are now red in color
#==============================================================================
# ● Light Modes
#------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# GROUND - Medium steady white light.
# FIRE - Large red light with a slight flicker.
# LIGHT - Small steady white light.
# LIGHT2 - X-Large steady white light.
# TORCH - X-Large red light with a heavy flicker.
# TORCH2 - X-Large red light with a sleight flicker.
#==============================================================================


Installation Instructions
1. Insert the script somewhere below Materials and above Main
2. Copy le.png to your Pictures folder in your game.

le.png:

The Script

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CODE

#==============================================================================
# ■ Light Effects VX 1.1
#     5.21.2008
#------------------------------------------------------------------------------
#  Script by: Kylock (originally for RMXP by Near Fantastica)
#==============================================================================
#   To make an event glow, give it a Comment: with any of the supported light
# modes.
#   The SWITCH setting below will disable light effects from updating with the
# switch is on.
#==============================================================================
# ● Change Log
#------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# 1.0 - Original Release
# 1.1 - New light modes added: LIGHT2, TORCH, TORCH2
#     - Changed sprite blend mode to ADD (looks slightly better)
#     - Fire-based lights are now red in color
#==============================================================================
# ● Light Modes
#------------------------------------------------------------------------------
#   GROUND - Medium steady white light.
#   FIRE   - Large red light with a slight flicker.
#   LIGHT  - Small steady white light.
#   LIGHT2 - X-Large steady white light.
#   TORCH  - X-Large red light with a heavy flicker.
#   TORCH2 - X-Large red light with a sleight flicker.
#==============================================================================

class Spriteset_Map
  alias les_spriteset_map_initalize initialize
  alias les_spriteset_map_dispose dispose
  alias les_spriteset_map_update update
  def initialize
    @light_effects = []
    setup_lights
    les_spriteset_map_initalize
    update
  end
  def dispose
    les_spriteset_map_dispose
    for effect in @light_effects
      effect.light.dispose
    end
    @light_effects = []
  end
  def update
    les_spriteset_map_update
    update_light_effects
  end
  def setup_lights
    for event in $game_map.events.values
      next if event.list == nil
      for i in 0...event.list.size
        if event.list[i].code == 108 and event.list[i].parameters == ["GROUND"]
          type = "GROUND"
          light_effects = Light_Effect.new(event,type)
          light_effects.light.zoom_x = 2
          light_effects.light.zoom_y = 2
          light_effects.light.opacity = 100
          @light_effects.push(light_effects)
        end
        if event.list[i].code == 108 and event.list[i].parameters == ["FIRE"]
          type = "FIRE"
          light_effects = Light_Effect.new(event,type)
          light_effects.light.zoom_x = 300 / 100.0
          light_effects.light.zoom_y = 300 / 100.0
          light_effects.light.opacity = 100
          @light_effects.push(light_effects)
        end
        if event.list[i].code == 108 and event.list[i].parameters == ["LIGHT"]
          type = "LIGHT"
          light_effects = Light_Effect.new(event,type)
          light_effects.light.zoom_x = 1
          light_effects.light.zoom_y = 1
          light_effects.light.opacity = 150
          @light_effects.push(light_effects)
        end
        if event.list[i].code == 108 and event.list[i].parameters == ["LIGHT2"]
          type = "LIGHT2"
          light_effects = Light_Effect.new(event,type)
          light_effects.light.zoom_x = 6
          light_effects.light.zoom_y = 6
          light_effects.light.opacity = 150
          @light_effects.push(light_effects)
        end
        if event.list[i].code == 108 and event.list[i].parameters == ["TORCH"]
          type = "TORCH"
          light_effects = Light_Effect.new(event,type)
          light_effects.light.zoom_x = 6
          light_effects.light.zoom_y = 6
          light_effects.light.opacity = 150
          @light_effects.push(light_effects)
        end
        if event.list[i].code == 108 and event.list[i].parameters == ["TORCH2"]
          type = "TORCH2"
          light_effects = Light_Effect.new(event,type)
          light_effects.light.zoom_x = 6
          light_effects.light.zoom_y = 6
          light_effects.light.opacity = 150
          @light_effects.push(light_effects)
        end
      end
    end
    for effect in @light_effects
      case effect.type
      when "GROUND"
        effect.light.x = (effect.event.real_x - 400 - $game_map.display_x) / 8
        effect.light.y = (effect.event.real_y - 400 - $game_map.display_y) / 8
        effect.light.blend_type = 1
      when "FIRE"
        effect.light.x = (effect.event.real_x - 600 - $game_map.display_x) / 8 + rand(6) - 3
        effect.light.y = (effect.event.real_y - 600 - $game_map.display_y) / 8 + rand(6) - 3
        effect.light.tone = Tone.new(255,-100,-255,   0)
        effect.light.blend_type = 1
      when "LIGHT"
        effect.light.x = (-0.25 / 2 * $game_map.display_x) + (effect.event.x * 32) - 15
        effect.light.y = (-0.25 / 2 * $game_map.display_y) + (effect.event.y * 32) - 15
        effect.light.blend_type = 1
      when "LIGHT2"
        effect.light.x = (effect.event.real_x - 1200 - $game_map.display_x) / 8 - 20
        effect.light.y = (effect.event.real_y - 1200 - $game_map.display_y) / 8
        effect.light.blend_type = 1
      when "TORCH"
        effect.light.x = (effect.event.real_x - 1200 - $game_map.display_x) / 8 - 20
        effect.light.y = (effect.event.real_y - 1200 - $game_map.display_y) / 8
        effect.light.tone = Tone.new(255,-100,-255,   0)
        effect.light.blend_type = 1
      when "TORCH2"
        effect.light.x = (effect.event.real_x - 1200 - $game_map.display_x) / 8 - 20
        effect.light.y = (effect.event.real_y - 1200 - $game_map.display_y) / 8
        effect.light.tone = Tone.new(255,-100,-255,   0)
        effect.light.blend_type = 1
      end
    end
  end
  def update_light_effects
    if $game_switches[1]
      for effect in @light_effects
        next if effect.type == "FIRE" || effect.type == "TORCH"
        effect.light.visible = false
      end
    else
      for effect in @light_effects
        next if effect.type == "FIRE" || effect.type == "TORCH"
        effect.light.visible = true
      end
    end
    for effect in @light_effects
      case effect.type
      when "GROUND"
        effect.light.x = (effect.event.real_x - 400 - $game_map.display_x) / 8
        effect.light.y = (effect.event.real_y - 400 - $game_map.display_y) / 8
      when "FIRE"
        effect.light.x = (effect.event.real_x - 600 - $game_map.display_x) / 8 + rand(6) - 3
        effect.light.y = (effect.event.real_y - 600 - $game_map.display_y) / 8 + rand(6) - 3
        effect.light.opacity = rand(10) + 90
      when "LIGHT"
        effect.light.x = (-0.25 / 2 * $game_map.display_x) + (effect.event.x * 32) - 15
        effect.light.y = (-0.25 / 2 * $game_map.display_y) + (effect.event.y * 32) - 15
      when "LIGHT2"
        effect.light.x = (effect.event.real_x - 1200 - $game_map.display_x) / 8 - 20
        effect.light.y = (effect.event.real_y - 1200 - $game_map.display_y) / 8
      when "TORCH"
        effect.light.x = (effect.event.real_x - 1200 - $game_map.display_x) / 8 - 20 + rand(20) - 10
        effect.light.y = (effect.event.real_y - 1200 - $game_map.display_y) / 8 + rand(20) - 10
        effect.light.opacity = rand(30) + 70
      when "TORCH2"
        effect.light.x = (effect.event.real_x - 1200 - $game_map.display_x) / 8 - 20
        effect.light.y = (effect.event.real_y - 1200 - $game_map.display_y) / 8
        effect.light.opacity = rand(10) + 90
      end
    end
  end
end

class Light_Effect
  attr_accessor :light
  attr_accessor :event
  attr_accessor :type
  def initialize(event, type)
    @light = Sprite.new
    @light.bitmap = Cache.picture("le.png")
    @light.visible = true
    @light.z = 1000
    @event = event
    @type = type
  end
end

Usage
To make an event have a light effect, simply insert a Comment anywhere in the event code that includes the name of the effect in all capital letter. Example:


Enjoy,
Kylock

This post has been edited by Kylock: May 21 2008, 08:20 AM

[Tenchu-San]

Kylock you are a Scripting God amongst men. That is something I was looking for and you couldn't have made it ANY easier. Kudos to you my friend, kudos.

[Kylock]

Kylock you are a Scripting God amongst men. That is something I was looking for and you couldn't have made it ANY easier. Kudos to you my friend, kudos.

Lol, just to be clear, most of the code here is not mine, I only adapted it for VX (took a bit of rewriting) but I missed the functionality from my old games back in the day.

I'm glad other people find this useful.

[Kuuki]

Great Script!
Thanks

[X-Snake-X]

Very nice Script^^
I might use it

[maker2008]

Thank you very very much

[Puppet Of Fate]

I like it! I'll bookmark this for later.

[Taintedh]

Now if I could just manage to animate the campfire event... Anyone got a clue how to do this?

[thinkabout]

I have a problem here, lets see....
-I have an event (Event Lamp) that has 2 pages.
-In page 1 there is an image of a shutdown lamp (just a lamp) with nothing in the event commands
-In page 2, there is an image of a lighted lamp (the same lamp but yellow), this page needs the "light" switch to be on, I put the "LIGHT" comment there
-I have another event (Event Switch), it turns on or off the "light" switch

so
-The light switch is turned off by default
-I turn it on
-The lamp event changes pages to the lighted lamp, but there is no LIGHT effect
-When I change map and come back, NOW there is the LIGHT effect.
-So I go to turn it off
-The Lamp event goes back to page 1, and the lamp is off, but the LIGHT effect is still there
-When I change maps, NOW the LIGHT effect is gone

Now if I could just manage to animate the campfire event... Anyone got a clue how to do this?

you can try to have a charset with the campfire, with the fire in different directions, like this: \ | /
then put that charset in the campfire event, and select the Stepping Animation option of the event.


This post has been edited by thinkabout: May 25 2008, 12:56 PM

[tomhgamer]

Great job! Is it possible to get it so the fire script could glow blue or green for the green and blue fire torches?

[Kylock]

I have a problem here, lets see....
-I have an event (Event Lamp) that has 2 pages.
-In page 1 there is an image of a shutdown lamp (just a lamp) with nothing in the event commands
-In page 2, there is an image of a lighted lamp (the same lamp but yellow), this page needs the "light" switch to be on, I put the "LIGHT" comment there
-I have another event (Event Switch), it turns on or off the "light" switch

so
-The light switch is turned off by default
-I turn it on
-The lamp event changes pages to the lighted lamp, but there is no LIGHT effect
-When I change map and come back, NOW there is the LIGHT effect.
-So I go to turn it off
-The Lamp event goes back to page 1, and the lamp is off, but the LIGHT effect is still there
-When I change maps, NOW the LIGHT effect is gone

Now if I could just manage to animate the campfire event... Anyone got a clue how to do this?

you can try to have a charset with the campfire, with the fire in different directions, like this: \ | /
then put that charset in the campfire event, and select the Stepping Animation option of the event.

My apologies for the late reply, I haven't been home for about a week. Anyway, I have also had trouble with this flaw. The original script by Near Fantastica that I adapted this one from worked in a way that it would only create light events when the map was loaded. Because of the method used, you can't really turn lights on and off using events without reloading the map. If you created a transfer player event that moved you to the same spot, you should get the desired effect, just a fade to black and back when you do it. That's the only way around this that I've found so far.

[sargunster]

wow amazing

[Tris]

how do you make it dark?

[darkrevenge]

I'm using Kylock's Time System VX 1.5 and I've noticed that this script doesn't work at night time...
Do anyone know how to make it work?
Thanks! ^^

[Kylock]

I'm using Kylock's Time System VX 1.5 and I've noticed that this script doesn't work at night time...
Do anyone know how to make it work?
Thanks! ^^

Find:

CODE

if $game_switches[1]

Change this to:

CODE

if !$game_switches[1]

this change will make lights on only at night, or you can just comment it out and the corresponding end statement to remove that part. I thought I made a constant for it, but it doesn't look like it's in this version. Since I'm on vacation from game making for awhile, this solution will have to do for now.

[icicle_mx]

Simply, an amazing script. Thank you very much. You're genius!

[YanXie]

Hmm.. too bad that you're busy with work again..

Still a good script though.

cheers, puppeto4.

[icicle_mx]

BTW, can you make a light on water reflection too? Like the river below the sun glare.

[romaniac]

FANTASTIC! I will definitely use it in my game! ^________^ Thanks a lot.

[Ganon]

This seems to return my tint to normal. I tint the screen very dark, but the light effects make it all the way up to full. Is there any way to fix this?