Drawing a colour to a pixel (or multiple pixels)

[nathanlink169]

Hi all.

I'm trying to highlight an area with a semi-transparent colour to represent an NPC's vision cone. Is there a way to say "draw this colour at this location"?

 

[Ace of Spades]

Not sure if you're just needing the visual part of the vision cone showing, but if that's the case why not just use the show picture command in editor? You can set the coordinates to variables, set the opacity, and it'll give you more creative control on how it should look (for example if you want a gradient in the vision cone)

 

[pasunna]

Sensor SelfSwitch

Sensor SelfSwitch v3.3.3 by Lyson Introduction This plugin activates a self switch when a player is in a certain proximity of an event. It uses a notetag in the note of the event or in event page comments to set the proximity. Features - Automagic Selfswitching based on player...

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this plugin process the visual sensor
but… if you want to write your own code
you need to dig in by yourself
because I’m not do it yet…

 

[nathanlink169]

Not sure if you're just needing the visual part of the vision cone showing, but if that's the case why not just use the show picture command in editor? You can set the coordinates to variables, set the opacity, and it'll give you more creative control on how it should look (for example if you want a gradient in the vision cone)

Thank you for the suggestion! I did consider this at first, but I ran into a few theoretical issues. I'm using a pixel-based movement in my game, rather than tile-based, so ensuring that the image is pixel-perfect to the math that's happening will be a slight pain. Another issue is that if the vision gets blocked by the terrain, I want to be able to reflect that. I'm not certain that's possible with an image. Lastly, I think this is a good learning opportunity.

Sensor SelfSwitch

Sensor SelfSwitch v3.3.3 by Lyson Introduction This plugin activates a self switch when a player is in a certain proximity of an event. It uses a notetag in the note of the event or in event page comments to set the proximity. Features - Automagic Selfswitching based on player...

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this plugin process the visual sensor
but… if you want to write your own code
you need to dig in by yourself
because I’m not do it yet…

Thanks for the resource! I'll take a look at how they're doing the drawing. I definitely want to write my own code for this, primarily to learn. I've done vision cones in other languages and they're not terribly difficult to do, I'm just unfamiliar with the RPG Maker library exactly.

 

[pasunna]

mankindGames/RPGTkool

RPGツクールMV公開用. Contribute to mankindGames/RPGTkool development by creating an account on GitHub.

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and this is japanese version where the dev still actively improving it

by myself the English plugin is in alien language haha...
he use something beyond my knowledge
I only understand something more base rpg maker mv editing...
and my mathematic skill is poor...haha...
the japanese one use bitmap function that I guess is the one
had no time to experiment on it yet

 

[nathanlink169]

I was able to figure out the answer to my question. MV uses PIXI.js as its graphics manager. The following code will draw a box on screen:

// Call this code on initialization
this._sprite = new PIXI.Graphics();
SceneManager._scene.addChild(this._sprite);

// Call this code any time you want to change what is displayed
this._sprite.clear();
this._sprite.beginFill(0xFF0000, 0.5);
this._sprite.drawRect(50, 200, 100, 75);
this._sprite.endFill();