Im creating my own lighting, and im wondering how i should do it, i was thinking adding a lighting to the clients screen, but its going to be hard to update it, so then i thought about adding a overlay to every turf, but that would just create
ALOT of lag and use alot of space and be hard to update, so then i thought about adding a obj over everything, but that would just be dumb and use alot of space and make lag,
what should i do?
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 Aug 13 2012, 4:39 pm
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neither really helped me :/
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i doubt that try looking at Forum_account's
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ok ill look once more, but im asking how to show the lighting
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They both include demos, showing exactly how they work.
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Modern games calculate lighting every frame, some also have pre-calculated static lighting on top of that. However, BYOND lacks any kind of client-side processing, therefore it will lag unless you use only static lighting.
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You COULD just change the lighting uppon movement and again uppon the addition or subtraction of light sources. This would be just as usefull and a lot less costly then updating every frame.
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ok thank you for your input, but my question is still un answered, i want the best way of how to put it into the game, now how to make it work, should i put it as overlay or should i put a lighting on EVERY turf?
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NNAAAAHH wrote:
You COULD just change the lighting uppon movement and again uppon the addition or subtraction of light sources. This would be just as usefull and a lot less costly then updating every frame. This is pretty much how my lighting, F_a's lighting, and Shadowdarke's lighting function: only update when a light source undergoes some kind of change, whether it's a change in location, brightness, radius, creation, or deletion. Shwb1 wrote: ok thank you for your input, but my question is still un answered, i want the best way of how to put it into the game, now how to make it work, should i put it as overlay or should i put a lighting on EVERY turf? I use /area, Forum_account uses /obj, and Shadowdarke's DAL uses /area. I've tried /image, and have discovered that it tends to be a bit slow. Using turf overlays is also a viable option, so long as your game functionality is not affected by setting turf mouse_opacity to 0. | |
http://www.byond.com/developer/Shadowdarke/ sd_DynamicAreaLighting
Two high level programmers and their solutions.