Night

[mustorze]

how can darken the screen of the game?
as if night.??

Thx

[mustorze]

yes, I want to develop my game this code wanted to do this I will do so:
6:00 am until 6:00 pm daily, 6:00 am until 6:00 pm tonight.
when I finish I will post here: D

Thx

[Robin]

Converting to DX8 will allow for variable darkening. Simply have all the Vertices have their lighting colour loaded from global variables and have these global variables darken/lighten through time. Would be a nice effect.

[mustorze]

bad is that I do not understand directx ...
I know only visual basic even I did a game in visual offline after the show you and I am thinking of using the same system to make layers dark ..

[Dragoons Master]

Converting to DX8 will allow for variable darkening. Simply have all the Vertices have their lighting colour loaded from global variables and have these global variables darken/lighten through time. Would be a nice effect.

Easier to just add one big black shape and alpha only this one.

[Robin]

It's not easier, as you don't have to render anything extra when you do it my way

[shaded]

Add this to the bottom of:Public Sub BltTile(ByVal x As Long, ByVal y As Long)

Code:

If GameTime = 1 Then
        With rec
            .top = Int(Night / 32) * PIC_Y
                .Bottom = .top + PIC_Y
                .Left = (Night - Int(Night / 32) * 32) * PIC_X
                .Right = .Left + PIC_X
            End With
            Call DD_BackBuffer.BltFast(x * PIC_X, y * PIC_Y, DD_TileSurf, rec, DDBLTFAST_WAIT Or DDBLTFAST_SRCCOLORKEY)
End If

The variable night refers to which tile it is going to blit over. So make your second tile on your tile sheet a 32x32 checker board. Dim Night as 1.

This is a very primitive way to display night. If you want to just test it as night all the time, get rid of the if statement.

[mustorze]

I tried to do that did not was not night I can best explain please?

[Beres]

Add

Code:

End

at the end of

Code:

Public Sub BltTile(ByVal x As Long, ByVal y As Long)

That should do it.

[shaded]

If you can't figure it out, PM me. Also if you don't have a night tile then I'll make you one.

I think you might not be assigning the variable night. It was just an example. But I can explain one on one how to do it and how it works.

[Dragoons Master]

It's not easier, as you don't have to render anything extra when you do it my way

It's much easier. And you don't have to change your hole code. Just add 5 new lines and blit two new triangles! xD