WOULD THIS BE PLAYABLE?

This is a video of my fog system. I am not sure if the constant blinking would make the game unplayable though. The blinking is caused from lack of processing power in rpg maker and will not occur every time, but about 90% of the time. I can remove the blinking, but then the player will be able to briefly see under the fog every time they move which would defeat the purpose of the fog. The stuff to the right is where the HUD would be, so just ignore that.


Note: I wasn't sure if this should be posted here or the help section.

Well the problem is that the algorithm used to determine the line of sight exceeds rpg maker's processing speed for events. I could probably get rid of the blinking if I invested more time into it, but it would probably take quite a bit more time and it is getting quite frustrating.

Edit: I found a way to optimize it, so I won't have to deal with the blinking.

It now runs smoothly and even more accurate! Here is the fully functional fog system in all its glory.

I am not sure why the hero was moving weird(It was because of the placeholder sprite) when I recorded this, but it only happened when recording so most likely that's what caused it.

Now I just need to work on a movement system for it. As it is now the fog will not be created correctly if the hero is in mid movement, so I need to stop the hero every tile so the picture coordinates for the fog won't be halfway on a tile.

I actually don't have any more processing issues and the weird movement in the video is from the recording software lagging the game. The problem with doing what you suggest is that I would need a picture for every tile on the map, a 20x15 map consists of 300 tiles just imagine larger maps. The way I do it now is create a picture for every tile on screen plus 1 more, so that when the screen moves there is still fog hiding enemies/items/etc and then I have the fog created again to update it. The real problem is that rpg maker shows pictures based on screen coordinates instead of map coordinates, so if your moving there is no accurate way to cover a tile with a 16x16 picture. I have a some what easy fix for this and that is to create the fog every time the hero moves one tile and also prevent the hero from moving until the fog is done. I have another topic about this though in the help section.