Im trying to make it look like the power has cut off so everything is darker. I know how to make the characters darker but I dont know how to make the rooms darker short of making 15 new rooms which would take up way to much space. Is there any way I can just make the entire room several shades darker.
There are three possibilities:
1. Using the flashlight plugin (which I wouldn't suggest to use as a beginner)
2. Tinting the Screen black using TintScreen(); (look in the manual)
3. Change the Background image (manual)
Tint screen changes it to just one color and I need it darker because the player will be exploring around the area while its darker. Ill check out the flashlight plugin though.
Nevermind, I used tintscreen with 1 in each of the categories and it worked beautifully. Thanks for the help.
You can also use a black, non-clickable GUI as big as the screen with a transparency setting of 30-70.
Ill try that to. Thanks again
The Flashlight Plugin was Modularized (http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/yabb/index.php?topic=30137.0) a long time ago by monkey_05_06. Also, it includes a manual that is very easy to understand.
And Khris's suggestion would most likely work the best, in addition to being the simplest.
~Trent
The benefit of Khris' method would be that you can fade the light on/off by simple increasing and decreasing the transparency of the GUI, which would look a good deal neater than just flipping from black to room pic.