#box2dlights

[apprenticesoft-blog]

Hi ! 

I didn't give news during the past month. Was I on vacation ? No... I wish I was... I was still busy with my day job, and, more importantly, I was spending my evening drawing new tilesets for the final version of Cosmonaut ! 

Yes, the release is approaching ! The core coding part is finished. Now I need to draw, design, level, debug, and test the full version. Then, there is the potentially endless debug-polish-test loop... 

But well, I am getting there soon-ish ! 

Here is a video showing a test level with a sample of the new tileset !          

[apprenticesoft-blog]

Hey ! 

 So what happened during the last 10 days ? 

I worked a lot on the electric arc that I am implementing to my next game Cosmonaut. 

Compared the previous video I posted, the electric arc has been greatly upgraded : 

- The hitbox is no longer a simple rectangle in which the electric arc appears. Now the hitbox takes the exact shape of the electric arc, and follows it. 

- I implemented a third mode. Now the electric arc can be continuous, flashing (one lightning every X seconds), or intermitent (continuous during X seconds, and shutdown during Y seconds).

[apprenticesoft-blog]

This week I worked on light effects. I already had set up an ambiant light, and a cone light for the player. But I wanted to have more light effects to play with, to created differents atmospheres and effects. So I created these lights, that can be linked to any moving objects, and follow their motions. These lights can also have different effects such as flickering, pulsing and alternating. More options to create levels !

[apprenticesoft-blog]

Hi ! Recently I spent a bit of time playing with the different parameters of Box2DLights. I wanted to get rid of the "overburning" effect of the light. Using diffuse ligths helped a lot. You can see the difference between diffuse and non-diffuse lights in the video.

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Salut ! Récemment, j'ai passé un peu de temps à jouer avec les différents paramètres de Box2DLights. Je voulais me débarrasser de l'effet de lumière "cramée". L'ùUtilisation du paramètre "diffuse light" a beaucoup aidé. Vous pouvez voir la différence entre les lumières diffuses et non diffuses dans la vidéo.