Flashlight (Plugins)

Thanks for the fast update! I did a quick test this morning and the optimizations seem to be working well.

Thanks for the fast update! I did a quick test this morning and the optimizations seem to be working well.

That's great! Let me know how it goes and if you have any other feature suggestions.

Bug update: render own texture layers work correctly. The party shader effects are not supported.

The plugin currently takes one tick to start drawing (which is why Paster doesn't immediately work) and I'm working to see if I can force it to draw straight away.

UberLou, excellent example!

UberLou - that's awesome!

This is really great. All we need know is a proper normal map plugin for the objects that will react to the "Flashlight" lights

This is really great. All we need now is a proper normal map plugin for the objects that will react to the "Flashlight" lights

Now that would be amazing! I have no idea how to go about this but I'm going to investigate to see if it's even possible...

v1.02 submitted to the store for approval.

New action: Force early draw. To make the plugin fully compatible with Paster. If you want to paste a Flashlight image in the same tick that it was created, first use this action. The method used by Paster to paste objects conflicts with the methods used in Flashlight to draw the shadows. This action permits a work-around.

Updated action: Enable redraw. When set to disable, the Flashlight refreshes the displayed image/shadows before going dormant (the image becomes frozen at last update). This now permits the plugin to be set to disable in the same tick/events that it is created. (If disabled in the editor properties then the update does not happen).

?ompatible with Paster - it's interesting

About normal maps - you need a lot of work to make good maps, plus they double the size of sprites. Preferably software creation, as here

https://www.scirra.com/forum/effects-gs-11-12-13-normal-mapping-plasma-voronoi_t99533

?ompatible with Paster - it's interesting

About normal maps - you need a lot of work to make good maps, plus they double the size of sprites. Preferably software creation, as here

https://www.scirra.com/forum/effects-gs-11-12-13-normal-mapping-plasma-voronoi_t99533

Yeah, Construct design is strange in here, having to add a duplicate object just to have normal maps is really very hard to control, especially if you would like to have a lot of them. "Auto creating" normal maps is kind of risky, cause you don't have any control on the process....

Ideally it would be nice to have an option in the Animation Editor to import normal maps besides the normal textures. Everything would be still the same, image points, origins, etc... it's just a texture over the sprite - something for C3 maybe? Ashley

Colludium Any chance for C3 port in a future?

Sorry, shinkan, I don't expect so. I can't justify the c3 recurring rental fee that I would need to pay to support my one-time-payment plugins.

It's a shame really, but I can totally understand what you mean.

v1.03 submitted to the store for approval.

Bugfix - If a flashlight object was casting shadows only from an object that was not on screen then it caused a glwrap.js failure message. The conflict has been removed.