Brightness Setting

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• #1, by Pyke Monday, 14. March 2011, 10:32 17 years ago

  Is it possible to add in a brightness setting that the player can use to brighten/darken the game?
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• #2, by Suro Monday, 14. March 2011, 20:44 17 years ago

  I think there already is something like that. You can apply this one in an action if you look for SCENE -> set brightness

  I didn't test out much with it, but I think you can't fade it in or anything. Maybe you can via scripting (which is way beyond me).

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• #3, by Nigec Monday, 14. March 2011, 22:53 17 years ago

  probably talking cr*p here, but in another engine using LUA the script was:

  
  local Brightness=0.1
  
  function adjust_brightness(step)
  	Brightness=Brightness+step
  	if Brightness>0.5 then Brightness=0.5 end
  	if Brightness<-0.5 then Brightness=-0.5 end
  	--- something goes here to use visionaires set brightness)
  end
  
  

  then on + button

  
  adjust_brightness(0.01)
  
  

  -button

  
  adjust_brightness(-0.01)
  
  

• #4, by mowren Tuesday, 15. March 2011, 01:15 17 years ago

  Adapted for Visionaire Nigecs Code Sample might look like this:

  local Brightness=100
  local CurrentScene
  
  function adjust_brightness(step)
  	CurrentScene=game:getLink(VGameCurrentScene)
  	Brightness=Brightness+step
  	if Brightness>100 then Brightness=100 end
  	if Brightness<0 then Brightness=0 end
  	CurrentScene:setValue(VSceneBrightness, Brightness)
  end

  When calling the function the parameters have to be in percentage values for Visionaire. With this you can adjust the darkness of a scene. 100% means clearly visible as in your graphic file data, 0% results in a completely black scene. The one drawback of this scene value is that you can't brighten up the scene.

• #5, by Pyke Tuesday, 15. March 2011, 13:27 17 years ago

  Fantastic guys! Ill give these all a try and get back to you.