room lighting

[Ethan D]

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.

[NsMn]

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)

[Ethan D]

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.

[Ethan D]

Nevermind, I used tintscreen with 1 in each of the categories and it worked beautifully. Thanks for the help.

[Khris]

You can also use a black, non-clickable GUI as big as the screen with a transparency setting of 30-70.

[Ethan D]

Ill try that to. Thanks again

[Trent R]

The Flashlight Plugin was Modularized 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

[Ghost]

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.