Dedicated Lighting?

[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…