Dedicated Lighting?

[Vgreen]

Hello all,

I hope that everyone is doing well!

I had a question about lighting. I was wondering if Defold would be adding a dedicated 2d lighting system, where you can bring in a light and change things like direction and scope in a similar manner in which go properties are edited.

In the mean time, can anyone point me in the direction of how to make my own simple lighting, or an asset that I may be able to find. I must say I have no experience with meshes or vectors, but I am willing to learn!

Any insight would be great!

All the best,
V

[TheKing0x9]

I am afraid I wont be able to answer your first question , but there is a thread here in which @britzl explains in a great manner how to set up a lighting solution in Defold

Simple 2D Lighting

It is not that complex although you do need to mess with the render script, a shader and some new materials. The basic idea is this: STEP 1 - DRAW NORMAL COMPONENTS TO RENDER TARGET Draw your sprites, tilemaps and any other components you have in your game to a render target (a texture in memory) instead of directly to screen. [58] You create a render target using render.render_target(). You enable it in your render script, draw using the normal render calls, then disable it again. Done! S…