box2dLights

[kalle_h]

If you don't give box2d world then all lights are xrays which means they are super fast. But then you dont get dynamic lights. Still lot better than no lights at all.

Lights are just meshes which drawed with additive blending over the top of your game. No overhead.

[pasman]

cool, just finished a first integration and it works just as expected.
Thanks man!

[xpe]

This is really nice but I have a simple question, why when I run light test demo with opengles 2.0 turned off it works fine on pc and not on android?
I can only see the background where light is (PC) but on android is different, I see everything. Is Blend kinda limited for android devices with ES 1.X? Sorry I'm still new in opengles stuff
using defy

thx

[kalle_h]

This is really nice but I have a simple question, why when I run light test demo with opengles 2.0 turned off it works fine on pc and not on android?
I can only see the background where light is (PC) but on android is different, I see everything. Is Blend kinda limited for android devices with ES 1.X? Sorry I'm still new in opengles stuff
using defy

thx

Shadows need framebuffer with alpha channel with gles1.0 this is usual case with desktop but on android default is 16bit framebuffer with rgb565 channels but no alpha.
On gles2.0 lights are lot better looking so I would just encourage you to use that.

[Gooni]

THANKS!

And don't forget to end the spritebatch before rendering the lights.

[Veedoo]

Hi, I'm planning to take advantage of the box2dLights library. Just one question - is it still being developed? LibGDX is moving forward pretty fast and I haven't seen any updates on box2dLights since FEB... anyone knows?

[kalle_h]

Hi, I'm planning to take advantage of the box2dLights library. Just one question - is it still being developed? LibGDX is moving forward pretty fast and I haven't seen any updates on box2dLights since FEB... anyone knows?

Box2dLights does not rely libgdx stuff that much but I haven't checked compatibility for months. Currently all my time goes to my job where I make iOs games with c++ so I haven't done any libgdx coding lately. If there is some problems with working I can update it but there are hardly any new features left in development.

[Veedoo]

That is OK. Just verified and looks it works perfectly!! Thanks!

[kalle_h]

That is OK. Just verified and looks it works perfectly!! Thanks!

Thanks for checking it. Good to hear it works.

[Gooni]

Hi,
thx for the lib. I'm using it and it works flawless so far.
However I have problems doing something specific: I want to render a screen of my level - including the light/darkness - to a texture. My level is rendered to the framebuffer correctly, but light&darkness don't show up on my texture.

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FrameBuffer m_FrameBuffer = new FrameBuffer(Format.RGB565, (int)(width * m_fboScaler), (int)(height * m_fboScaler), false);
TextureRegion m_OutTexture = new TextureRegion(m_FrameBuffer .getColorBufferTexture());

m_SpriteBatch.begin();
m_FrameBuffer.begin();
m_Level.DrawContent();
m_Level.DrawLights();
m_FrameBuffer.end();
m_SpriteBatch.end();


What am I doing wrong? Any suggestions to fix this are greatly appreciated.
Cheers, Gooni.