What he said. :DIm currently combining built in lighting WITH the shader effects...and the results are pretty spectacular.

Shader light effects have only just been implemented with the current release 4.1. So the lighting in Stasis was done by Chris manually in his 3D design software & then exported as individual animation frames which would have then been imported into VS as 2D animation sequence.With the new shader functions you can create various different lights, place them around your scene or attach them to an object, character etc & manipulate their parameters. I've not looked into them yet, nor have I properly gone over Simon's breakdown explanation, thus I've not provided any wiki documentation for them yet.

Hey guys!I'm pretty excited to test out this shader stuff. However there's one problem that I've come across is this. I'm not able to open the game. My tester though was able to fix it "I had to navigate to the hidden folder /opt/ on the OS drive, create the folders ffmpeg and lib, and put ALL the codecs and stuff from the framework folder in there."http://i.imgur.com/ZLbmmRI.jpgI'm exporting the game via a Windows computer for Mac and used the platform download from here http://wiki.visionaire-tracker.net/wiki/Player_FAQThanks for any help in advance guys :DCheersJacob

Onto the actual Shader discussion!I love the Toolkit. I know pretty much next to nothing about setting up shaders, but I've been able to Frankenstein together some rather nice and workable effects.I managed to cannibalize your flashlight shader and created a flashlight, and a shader that just creates a light halo around the character. LIGHT HALO[quote]shaderActivateLighting(3)bind(shader_effects["light1"].num, "lights[2].position", point(inverty(scrollfix(offset(field("game.CurrentCharacter.Position"),{0,-80}))), 1))bind(shader_effects["light1"].num, "lights[3].position", point(inverty(scrollfix(offset(field("game.CurrentCharacter.Position"),{1000,1000}))), factor(dist(offset(field("game.CurrentCharacter.Position"),{0,2}), cursor), -500)))shaderLamp(2, 1, {100,500,1}, {20,900,10},{0.03,-0.00000001,0.0}, {0,0,0}, {1,1,1}, 1, 90, 1)shaderLamp(3, 1, {1000,500,1}, {0,0,1}, {5.01,0.0,0.000002}, {2,2,2}, {2,2,2}, 5, 90, 1)[/quote]FLASHLIGHT[quote]shaderActivateLighting(2)bind(shader_effects["light1"].num, "lights[0].position", point(inverty(scrollfix(offset(field("game.CurrentCharacter.Position"),{0,-80}))), 1))bind(shader_effects["light1"].num, "lights[0].targetpos", point(inverty(cursor), 20))bind(shader_effects["light1"].num, "lights[1].position", point(inverty(scrollfix(offset(field("game.CurrentCharacter.Position"),{100,100}))), factor(dist(offset(field("game.CurrentCharacter.Position"),{0,10}), cursor), -500)))shaderLamp(0, 0, {900,500,1}, {0,900,10}, {0.001,0.000001,0}, {0,0,0}, {1,1,1}, 1, 90, 0)shaderLamp(1, 1, {1000,50,1}, {0,0,1}, {0.01,0.0,0.000001}, {2,2,2}, {2,2,2}, 5)[/quote]YOUR ORIGINAL FLASHLIGHT SCRIPT[quote]shaderActivateLighting(4)bind(shader_effects["light1"].num, "lights[0].position", point(inverty(scrollfix(offset(field("game.CurrentCharacter.Position"),{0,-200}))), 1))bind(shader_effects["light1"].num, "lights[0].targetpos", point(inverty(cursor), 10))bind(shader_effects["light1"].num, "lights[1].position", point(inverty(scrollfix(offset(field("game.CurrentCharacter.Position"),{0,-200}))), factor(dist(offset(field("game.CurrentCharacter.Position"),{0,-200}), cursor), 10)))shaderLamp(0, 0, {900,500,1}, {0,900,10}, {0.001,0.000001,0}, {0,0,0}, {1,1,1}, 1, 90, 0)shaderLamp(1, 1, {1000,50,1}, {0,0,1}, {0.01,0.0,0.000001}, {1,1,1}, {0,0,0}, 1)shaderLamp(2, 1, {1500,50,1}, {0,0,1}, {0.01,0,0.000001}, {0,0,0}, {0,1,0}, 1)shaderLamp(3, 0, {1300,900,1}, {0,400,10}, {0.001,0.000001,0}, {0,0,0}, fromHSV(1,1,1), 1, 90, 0)[/quote]

I will add some more things in the future, I would really like to hear your thoughts about it. It's also possible to set a shader on an object, but I haven't completed that in the script.If you have a reproducible crash, would really like to see it. The function I use is not completely sanitized, so it can happen.