How to implement shadow in Defold

[britzl]

Are you talking about ray/shadowcasting like this:

2d light implemetations

You want to change the vertices in the vertex shader. However, this is tricky, since 1) we’re using OpenGLES 2.0 which doesn’t feature gl_VertexID, and 2) We currently only support 4 user defined constants per shader. However, a simple test allowed me to modify the vertices of my box, using a custom material and custom shader. The yellow rectangle is the original location of my box, and the gradient polygon is my custom vertices (pretend there’s a light source in the bottom left corner): [ima…

Lights in Defold?

Hey guys, I’m a seasoned web developer but new to game development. In fact I started with Java & Android about a month ago and started playing around with libGDX and now I’m a couple of weeks away from releasing my first Android mobile game, a top down driving game that has lighting as one of the core ingredients. Yesterday I saw a post (on Reddit I think) where Defold was mentioned and I looked it up and it was love at first sight Defold is very new to me of course but I really …