Well you can sort of do a flashlight without shaders, by using semi-transparent images, but it's not very efficient.I believe with the GUI Simon is working on that it might be possible for him to implement various action part/module preset versions with parameters for some of the shader stuff. But only time will tell about that.

Look here, there are some examples: [url=http://www.visionaire-studio.net/forum/thread/shader-toolkit-discussions-examples-and-other-cool-stuff!/2/]http://www.visionaire-studio.net/forum/thread/shader-toolkit-discussions-examples-and-other-cool-stuff!/2/[/url]

why not just create a semi-transparent white effect & maybe overlay an old movie style effect or maybe desaturate the entire scene?First 2 are possible without using the shader. Controlling saturation with the shader however is pretty simple.[code]shaderSaturation(0, 3000) -- desaturate in 3sshaderSaturation(1, 3000) -- reset saturation over 3s[/code]...it uses decimal values, so 0 = black & white & 1 = default, 0.5 would be half saturated etc. The shader toolkit script is needed for this to work.

If you could provide me with a demo .ved & resource files needed to run it, then that would be most helpful, cheers. ;)English is fine, don't worry about it. It's actually more annoying to constantly read: "please forgive/sorry for my English" from all non-native English speakers. Compared to how most native English speakers talk/write these days I prefer to read/listen to non-native speakers! :PAs long as the lighting is essentially just an overlay type of image & doesn't actually change any of the lighting/shadows in the main scene/background then you can do that with a single image file & use the set opacity action part or lua script to control the transparency of it.Check out this dynamic lighting tutorial I wrote in the wiki @ [url=http://wiki.visionaire-tracker.net/wiki/Dynamic_Lighting_(h2)]here[/url]. There's a .ved file linked at the bottom of the page too.It's also possible to control lighting with lua & the openGL shader. I've shown an example of using shader to generate/control lighting in this [url=http://wiki.visionaire-tracker.net/wiki/Hotspots_(h2)]hotspot tutorial[/url] - I've applied an openGL shader spotlight around the camera & using a loop the light strength etc is dynamically updated & if you click on the candle then the light will go out & then flicker back on.

haha, you know the amusing thing about what you have just said? No? I am the one who is providing the documentation, albeit, very, very, bloody slowly. I don't get paid to write up the documentation. It's provided in my spare time, as & when I can. Lately not very much as I'm busy with other things.Also the thing with the documentation is that I will not be providing a step by step guide on how to do this, or that. It will just be an overview of the engine/editor & what each thing (button, action, menu etc) is for, or what it does. It does already contain things like tips, scripts/snippets & a few tutorials though.Tutorials in my opinion should be created by members of the community, although I don't mind providing one or two, but they are quite time consuming to create, write-up, record & edit.There's actually quite a few people on this forum who, these days send me direct pm/emails for help instead of posting in the forum first. I believe that there are plenty of capable people on the forum who can provide support besides myself.P.S: There is loads of documentation on the old [url=http://wiki.visionaire2d.net/index.php?title=Main_Page]2d wiki[/url], but I can't say how much of it is still valid as most of it is from years ago. Visionaire Studio has change a fair bit since whenever most of the stuff in the old wiki was written. We now have for instance: multi-platform export support, windows/mac versions of the ide (linux on the way at some point), a new sound engine, ttf font support, updated script (text) editor, updated lua handler, openGL shader support, loads of new lua functions & data structure tables, bundle of new action parts, mobile support, 3D character support etc etc. 3.7.1 to 4.0 was quite a big jump & there's more new features on the way in the upcoming build.P.P.S: There's loads of documentation on the new wiki, unfortunately a lot of it is to do with Lua script as it's the side of developing in VS that interests me the most. I often add new scripts, workflow functions & snippets to the wiki. Writing overviews of the editor is, well bloody boring to tell the truth, thus I tend to focus more on the scripting side of documentation, even though I know I should probably provide some new pages for the editor related stuff.