Light cast

ID:158293
 
Sep 23 2009, 4:33 pm
Hi, im trying to make a lighting system. where a light is an object, and the world is covered in a area like "Dark" or somthing. and the icon that the area uses is alpha colored to 100. pretty much it makes it look likes its night time, and i want the light to check within a view of however much i assign it and make the dark area not dark. But wat seems to happen is it makes the whole world not dark.. any help?



area
    dark
        icon='Objects.dmi'
        icon_state="Dark"
        layer=MOB_LAYER+30



obj/LightCast
    var/lightdist=3
    var/lit=1
    New()
        src.SetLight()
    proc/SetLight()
        for(var/area/dark/A in view(src.lightdist,src))
            A.icon_state=null
    light1
        icon='Objects.dmi'
        icon_state="light1on"
        lightdist=5
Sep 23 2009, 8:29 pm
If your map is small, you would convert them all to null. Try adding a break inside your loop to see if it changes to just one. Then try changing your lightdist to 2 and see what happens.


Just a modified version I used to play around with it.
turf
    dark
        icon='Objects.dmi'
        icon_state="Dark"

obj/LightCast
    var/lightdist=2
    var/lit=1
    New()
        src.SetLight()
    proc/SetLight()
    {
        for(var/turf/dark/A in view(src.lightdist, src))
        {
            A.icon_state = null
        }
    }