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LOOKING FOR A TUTORIAL ON LIGHTING EFFECTS IN RM2K3
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VinceIP
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CloseCan someone help me out? I need to make realistic lighting effects like in this screenshot of Desert Nightmare. http://img441.imageshack.us/img441/2033/27148808.png Notice how the character sprites is illuminated by the light. I can't figure out how this is done. I know you need to make lightmaps but I'm not sure how to do that.
LockeZ
I'd really like to get rid of LockeZ. His play style is way too unpredictable. He's always like this too. If he ran a country, he'd just kill and imprison people at random until crime stopped.
5958
What you do is make an sprite that looks like a white (or whatever color) glow. Then make an event that uses that sprite, and make it semitransparent. If you want the glow to pulse, set it to continue its movement animation even when standing still.
You can do pretty much the same thing with a semitransparent picture, or a semitransparent battle animation. Except a picture isn't going to be animated.
You can do pretty much the same thing with a semitransparent picture, or a semitransparent battle animation. Except a picture isn't going to be animated.
AznChipmunk
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post=145440
What you do is make an sprite that looks like a white (or whatever color) glow. Then make an event that uses that sprite, and make it semitransparent. If you want the glow to pulse, set it to continue its movement animation even when standing still.
You can do pretty much the same thing with a semitransparent picture, or a semitransparent battle animation. Except a picture isn't going to be animated.
do not do this
Manifesto
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post=145438
photoshop and photoshop skills
I too am interested on how people make lighting effects.
Can you please go a little in depth? (Seeing that youre liek uver pro at lighting effects, it won't be a problem right?)
Darken
3952
I don't know if this is the most common way, but heres a quick explanation of how I do it.
1. get this: http://rpgmaker.net/users/Darken/locker/rpg2kdev.exe
2. put it in your game's folder and click on it
3. type in the map file number of the map you want to apply lighting effects to (if you don't know the map number, check map properties and check the drag bar for ID:number)
4. the exe will produce a bmp of your selected map, open it up in photoshop
5. add lighting effects to parts of the map you want (this is where the PHOTOSHOP SKILLZ COME IN) make sure this is on a different layer
6. delete the layer the actual map image is on, and make a new layer below all the lighting layers, then fill it with black.
7. then save the image as an indexed png and put it in the picture folder
8. put show picture and experiment with the transparency percentages (make sure the transparent color is set to not use so that the 'black' creates a dark effect
thats the general gist of it
1. get this: http://rpgmaker.net/users/Darken/locker/rpg2kdev.exe
2. put it in your game's folder and click on it
3. type in the map file number of the map you want to apply lighting effects to (if you don't know the map number, check map properties and check the drag bar for ID:number)
4. the exe will produce a bmp of your selected map, open it up in photoshop
5. add lighting effects to parts of the map you want (this is where the PHOTOSHOP SKILLZ COME IN) make sure this is on a different layer
6. delete the layer the actual map image is on, and make a new layer below all the lighting layers, then fill it with black.
7. then save the image as an indexed png and put it in the picture folder
8. put show picture and experiment with the transparency percentages (make sure the transparent color is set to not use so that the 'black' creates a dark effect
thats the general gist of it
LockeZ
I'd really like to get rid of LockeZ. His play style is way too unpredictable. He's always like this too. If he ran a country, he'd just kill and imprison people at random until crime stopped.
5958
OK, yeah, making a black overlay on everything except the lighted area is probably way better than making a white overlay on the lighted area.
AznChipmunk
4613
post=145447
I don't know if this is the most common way, but heres a quick explanation of how I do it.
1. get this: http://rpgmaker.net/users/Darken/locker/rpg2kdev.exe
2. put it in your game's folder and click on it
3. type in the map file number of the map you want to apply lighting effects to (if you don't know the map number, check map properties and check the drag bar for ID:number)
4. the exe will produce a bmp of your selected map, open it up in photoshop
5. add lighting effects to parts of the map you want (this is where the PHOTOSHOP SKILLZ COME IN) make sure this is on a different layer
6. delete the layer the actual map image is on, and make a new layer below all the lighting layers, then fill it with black.
7. then save the image as an indexed png and put it in the picture folder
8. put show picture and experiment with the transparency percentages (make sure the transparent color is set to not use so that the 'black' creates a dark effect
thats the general gist of it
no my secrets......
Darken
3952
I think I'll make a more detailed tut of this so that everyone can be just like AznChipmunk! :D
AznChipmunk
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post=145452
I think I'll make a more detailed tut of this so that everyone can be just like AznChipmunk! :D
1. spend 4 years making a ton of short tech demos that aren't real projects
2. spend the next 4 years making real projects that never see a release
2. spend the next 4 years making real projects that never see a release
4 years? Goodness, I don't wanna have anything to do with RM anymore when I'm 26.... D-:
photoshop and photoshop skills
Not everyone here has rich parents. Gimp is more than enough for lightning effects.
4 years? Goodness, I don't wanna have anything to do with RM anymore when I'm 26.... D-:
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1. get this: http://rpgmaker.net/users/Darken/locker/rpg2kdev.exe
2. put it in your game's folder and click on it
3. type in the map file number of the map you want to apply lighting effects to (if you don't know the map number, check map properties and check the drag bar for ID:number)
4. the exe will produce a bmp of your selected map, open it up in photoshop
Oh, there's a program for that? Wow, that's MUCH easier.
Is there something like this for VX?
Darken
3952
@Deacon: Lol as if anyone here bought photoshop.
@Max: Not that I know of, it'd probably be an easy script to make though.
@Max: Not that I know of, it'd probably be an easy script to make though.
nickad
261
I never knew of this program. I just either walked around in-game, or used a x2 zoom in the editor.
post=145449:)
no my secrets......
