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Help => General => Topic started by: Clockwork on August 29, 2013, 03:42:07 am
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Hey everybody!
I saw all of the Game Jam entries and had a stroke of inspiration. I want to get a relatively simple lighting system ready that I might be able to use for some future projects. I found this tutorial that would be perfect for what I would like, but it's written in an earlier version of SFML (1.6 I think).
(Link) http://www.facepunch.com/threads/showthread.php?t=1011659
Is this a relatively good system for lighting and if so, how would I convert it to SFML 1.6? The majority of it works, but the stuff like sf::Shape::Line does not.
It doesn't really matter though, any 2D lighting system would be appreciated!
Thank you! :D
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I don't have the code here at work but that's where I adapted my lighting system, from which I took just one or two things for my Jam game.
In y memories adapting that code for sfml 2 is really easy.
Concerning if it is the best way to do it, I don't know. You can manage nice number of lights before the fps drops, but some guys around here use shaders and you can probably have more lights like that.
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There is an interesting library, Let There Be Light (http://en.sfml-dev.org/forums/index.php?topic=6635), and its successor GLLight2D (http://en.sfml-dev.org/forums/index.php?topic=11939). You can either directly use it, or take a look at its source code for inspiration :)
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Wow, that's really cool!
That's exactly what I was looking for, thanks guys. ;D