Better game lighting please

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Better game lighting please

jobromedia
Tuesday, May 29, 2012 - 16:40

Hi! New on OGA, and pretty new to FLARE as well. I really enjoy the game, but I do think that something needs to be done to improve the game lighting. Right now it is way too bright for confort. I would really love to see some dynamic lighting added. Is this on the TODO list? I hope so. :) Anyways it is a really awesome game to tell the truth. I enjoy it a lot.

Clint Bellanger
joined 15 years 3 months ago
Tuesday, May 29, 2012 - 16:43
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Too bright? Most of the game is too dark on most systems. Perhaps I need a gamma slider, if SDL supports it.

Dynamic lighting is not currently on the TODO list. SDL's regular 2D routines do not include a way to draw an image darker or lighter. Maybe one of the SDL addons allows this though?

jobromedia
joined 12 years 6 months ago
Tuesday, May 29, 2012 - 18:27

Well I think it would help to have a brightness control in the preferences. :) It's a great game. Expect some music being posted in the near future.

Best regards

Johan Brodd

Clint Bellanger
joined 15 years 3 months ago
Tuesday, May 29, 2012 - 18:40
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Oh, there may be two separate issues. Now I'm not sure which one (or both?) you mean.

  1. Add a brightness/gamma slider to the config  menu that changes the brightness/darkness of  the entire game. I'm pretty sure we CAN add this.
  2. Add in-game lighting that affects tiles dynamically, like torches on walls or spell effects.This one is not easy to do, and we don't currently have plans for it.

If you were referring to #1, then cool. We'll take a look at that now, and have it in release v0.16.

jobromedia
joined 12 years 6 months ago
Wednesday, May 30, 2012 - 00:36

I was refering to #1. :) Thanks for all your efforts.

Best regards

Johan Brodd