Gridded Lighting

LB. It loads ok for me.

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Oh my god LB, I love you no homo! It worked perfect!!

Look!

The thing is now, I don't know if it will work for lights, I made it work for sunlight if you can see in the picture. It probably does, I just haven't tested light - lights yet. By the way, have you any ideas to make it run faster? It runs fine and dandy full fps, but takes 0.5 - 2.0 seconds to fully update, and is not bad but is noticeable, I wouldn't mind except it's going to be implemented into one of my bigger games (with 8000-12000 objects on frame) so I was wondering if there we're a way to make it update just a little bit faster.

http://i1066.photobucket.com/albums/...dlighting1.png

http://i1066.photobucket.com/albums/...gridlight2.png

Here's the mfa

Edit: Wait, Now that I think of it.. It isn't "proper", It should get darker the further below the ground it is right? Where-as mine just lights up anything that doesn't overlap a block and surrounds it with fading light. @LB Do you know how I could fix this? Thanks!

Oh! I'm guessing you want sky light to go from the top of the frame to the bottom, as if it were a side scroller? For that you can use a formula that the higher the Y value, the lower the max skylight light level. I guess this explains why this doesn't work like I expected:
http://www.LB-Stuff.com/MMF2/WeirdLight.png

As for the slowness, that is caused by MMF2 having to check all the objects in the frame if their X and Y coordinates match. You seem to already have it set up with a solution in mind, so I'll just complete it: you can use an array object to store the light values and then just do always: set active object lighting to array index X/24, Y/24, and it will be much faster to let MMF2 do it that way.

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Originally Posted by LB

Oh! I'm guessing you want sky light to go from the top of the frame to the bottom, as if it were a side scroller? For that you can use a formula that the higher the Y value, the lower the max skylight light level. I guess this explains why this doesn't work like I expected:

As for the slowness, that is caused by MMF2 having to check all the objects in the frame if their X and Y coordinates match. You seem to already have it set up with a solution in mind, so I'll just complete it: you can use an array object to store the light values and then just do always: set active object lighting to array index X/24, Y/24, and it will be much faster to let MMF2 do it that way.

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No no, It does work as you expect. It's just that after deleting a block, you have to update the light about 5-6 times.

Edit: Also, Instead of darkness having it's own actives, Is there a way to make it (an effect) so the blocks turn into semi-transparency but instead of slowly transforming into the background colour, black instead.

http://i1066.photobucket.com/albums/...gridlight3.png

Why not just make the frame background black?

I'm going to have a blue background with clouds to make it look like the sky in the background.

Well, you can have them white and then just set their RGB coefficient to GetRGB(blah, blah, blah) where blah is a brightness from 255 (highest) to 0 (black)