Is it possible to render to the VSP/tileset itself? This would be useful for a day/night system or anything else where you just want the tiles to change in appearance or color and not the entities.

couldn't you just use getTile and setTile
(getTile change its color then setTile it back)?

Quote:Originally posted by gannon

couldn't you just use getTile and setTile
(getTile change its color then setTile it back)?

This would be pretty expensive to do in realtime on large maps.

Hmm.. got point. I'd say you could:

1) Make lots of different tile sets and load the right one on demand

2) Make one tile set and apply a colour transformation on demand. See here

3) Mask over the whole image. I don't quite see why the entities wouldn't be darker if it's night time. Unless you want dynamic torch effects. Which wouldbe cool.

4) Blit and mask stuff under enities, blit enties, blit to buffer then mask, then blit stuff over enties. Does seem a little unnessersary. See here

Zip

I'm still eagerly plugging my request to have runtime-adjustable lucency for layers, ie. a variable you can alter that allows you to alter the lucency of a layer in-game. This would mean you could just stick your night effect on a layer and time it to fade on when night falls. Voila. I currently have code set out to do that with spaces for appropriate code when (if?) it actually happens.

Thanks for the ideas. Maybe one of them will work :P

And gannon, I don't see how that would take care of the entities between layers problem. If you have multi night layers, the night layers above the entities would still affect the entities.

Zip, the effect I'm going for is the one seen in Breath of Fire and the Dragon Warrior games where only the map changes in color during the different day/night cycles, and this makes it easier to see entities at night.

If this is more trouble than it's worth, I'll probably just have entities affected too.