BUG ? Problem with Substract Effect

[Captain_Harris]

I have a Problem with the substract effect on a layer. i want that a lightcone follow the player.it works fine on windows but not on IOS.

Here is the link:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/ggo01ea6azg1k85/Test.mfa?m

[AyreGuitar]

Effects don't work on layers in iOS (tried something similar myself!). Would be cool if they did...

[Captain_Harris]

Hm.....not good. is there another way to do this ?

[Captain_Harris]

No ideas ?

[AyreGuitar]

Well, the other way to do it is to have a large subtract effect object with the cone shape cut out. You might be able to use a smaller object, eg 256x256 that's scaled up to improve performance, but it's not ideal.

[Captain_Harris]

I have tried it with a large active with a cone cut out, that is centered on the Player. ( the Player is a bouncing ball ) but for iPhone i need a active that is 1280 x 1920 px. with this large active the movement stucks.

edit: with a scaled active, the cone is very pixelated.

[Pineapple]

Try scaling it at quality=1

If you're only scaling it once, you shouldn't see any drop in performance.

[Captain_Harris]

With scaling, it works acceptable.
Thanks Pineapple.