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Ethereums2 years ago (1 edit)

Yes!! Setting the shadow depth works! Thank you! And yeah regarding the PBR packer, I watched your video on it but I'm confused.

My character for example is a large sprite sheet with over 200 frames. The sprite sheet is 1384 x 384px I dragged it into the clip window. I then clicked on normal but it's showing a 64x64 image. Same with material.

I'm honestly really new to normals and maps/etc. but basically I just want my players to not be so white when the lights are shining on them. Same with my buildings. When I have the le_day_night_cycle object in, once morning hits, the building and players are completely illuminated with pure whiteness. I just want my sprites to look like they originally do when light gets shined on them: I'm not sure what normals I'm supposed to be downloading. I tried using the online one you suggested in your video and created a normals sprite sheet from my player's sprite sheet and when I imported it into the game and set it as the normal map on my player object: the pure whiteness when the light shined on the players was still there.

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Badwrong Games2 years ago

What sort of light settings are you using?   Also, the light color matters too and you could use smaller values and the light will have less radiance.  Like on the light you could use set_color(make_color_rgb(80, 80, 80)); 

When you dragged the image file into the clip window, did you drop it in the bottom right?  After that drag the same image file into the material window in the albedo slot.  That's the base color for your sprite or material and in the packer it is just there to preview things.  You can tick the Lit box to see a sort of preview using Eclipse and then play with values.  Once you have that figured out you can go to places like https://freepbr.com/ and just download materials that look like they would create what you need and just use the normal map.  It will of course be a textured look and not exact to the sprites pixels.  If you want that you can generate them as I think you already found the site, or there are other programs that generate much nicer normal maps.

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Ethereums2 years ago

Unfortunately this seems to be a lot of extra work at this point just to get my sprites to look normal under this lighting engine.

At this point I don't know if it's worth it to go forward with this lighting engine. It is way more complex than I thought it was going to be. My main goal was just to have lights at certain depths in an isometric environment but now I need to download materials, normals, etc. and I can't even get that to work.

Our game is going to consist of a lot of different sprites and if I have to generate different images for every single sprite I want to look normal under the lights then I'm not sure this is a good idea.

I don't know why but on the PBR Packer program, pressing "Save" sometimes doesn't do anything, nothing gets created on my file system.


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Badwrong Games2 years ago

Eclipse is a PBR lighting solution, so if the plan was just basic lighting then it would be hard to justify its use.

At the moment I am creating a layer and depth based lighting engine which does not use PBR materials and is specifically designed so that lights are created on layers or by depth just like normal instances.  I can surely give you a copy when it is a little further along.

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Ethereums2 years ago

I'd be happy to pay for it when it's released!

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