Lighting and shadow engines are normally used in 3D games to add realism to the scene, but rarely they are also used in 2D games to improve visuals as well.
1. On the
LevelLightslayer, create aLightobject calledWhiteLightand accept the default image it comes with. Set itsShadow filterproperty toWebBlackand itsShadow opacityto60%.2. Place the object in your layout where you would like light to come in from:
3. Now on the
ShadowCasterslayer, create aSpritecalledShadowMaskand fill it withBlack. Give this object the Collisions modeNoneand check the box for Destroy on Startup before adding theShadowcasterbehavior to it and setting Shadow depth to1and the shadowCollision MasktoBounding Box.4. Now switch over to the
Gameevents, and in theStartupgroup add sub-eventsFor each Groundobject andFor each CrateBoxobject to the mainStart of layoutevent.5. For the first sub-event, add actions to create the
ShadowMaskobject...