MODULE: AGSLighting v1.00 - (normal maps in AGS)

[ruslan128]

The module provides a set of functions for lighting and rendering sprites with a point light source, using normal maps, reflection, and gloss. This only affects backgrounds, cannot be applied to objects or characters. Can be used to illuminate room backgrounds. You able to set the color of the different components of the light source, its height above the surface, the radius of the light spot (the rendering time increases proportionally to the square of the spot's radius).
It also contains a function for "fast" lighting without using normal maps.
The room for the background of which the module is applied must have a background of the same size as the sprites which contains the information about pixels (for example the background can be the sprite itself containing the Color map or a black rectangle of the same size).

Dependencies are unknown. Developed on AGS 3.5.0

Detailed illustrations and descriptions are in the topic at the link
https://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/forums/advanced-technical-forum/lighting-using-normal-maps-in-ags/

Link to download the module and documentation
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1i7WvG6CPXqTazKULn67LCZrXpL3L1FMn/view?usp=sharing

Demo
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1npNU6j9e5H0rqn1_RDcbG2vDDdkhL50n/view?usp=sharing

[eri0o]

Pretty cool module. Congratulations! Do you plan on hosting the code also on GitHub?

[ruslan128]

Pretty cool module. Congratulations! Do you plan on hosting the code also on GitHub?

I can do it, if it has sense. Is there any reason to do this?

[eri0o]

Google drive links are fine but AGS forums has so far outlived many file hosting websites. GH is usually easy to maintain a mirror for archival purposes.

[ruslan128]

Google drive links are fine but AGS forums has so far outlived many file hosting websites. GH is usually easy to maintain a mirror for archival purposes.

Ok. I'll think about it.
Usually, I work on my projects alone and didn't need to use GH.  But maybe I need to start thinking about future works with team))

[Whyshchuck]

Hi! Your project is incredible! What conditions should be met to make it possible to apply to objects, characters etc?

[edmundito]

Google drive links are fine but AGS forums has so far outlived many file hosting websites. GH is usually easy to maintain a mirror for archival purposes.

Ok. I'll think about it.
Usually, I work on my projects alone and didn't need to use GH.  But maybe I need to start thinking about future works with team))

@ruslan128 We've been talking on Discord about this plugin on Discord and one advantage of having it in Github is less about the team work but more about the case where someone needs to make modifications in case the AGS breaks compatibility or you're no longer available.

[ruslan128]

Hi! Your project is incredible! What conditions should be met to make it possible to apply to objects, characters etc?

Sorry for such a long delay)))

Unfortunately, this is not easy to do.
Perhaps you can take a picture of the screen, invisible to the player, where objects and characters will move, and then do the calculation, and then display it on the screen.  BUT this will obviously put even more load on the processor.
In short, this is a separate big job.

[ruslan128]

We've been talking on Discord about this plugin on Discord and one advantage of having it in Github is less about the team work but more about the case where someone needs to make modifications in case the AGS breaks compatibility or you're no longer available.

Yep. But I am still working alone. 

Maybe later 

[Crimson Wizard]

@edmundito

Having a permissive license for this module is more important than its presence on Github.

I quickly checked this module's download, and in "AGSLighting_doc_ENG.txt" there's a paragraph containing a MIT license text.

This license allows anybody to upload this source to anywhere, in original or modified form.