vbGore Free Online RPG Engine

well my problem is that when I enter my game, there is always a light but it follows my mouse!! and I get 6 fps with that

I only want it to appear sometimes, when I cast a spell or use an item!


thanks in advance

I'll take a look into it it just could be you put something in the wrong spot...

:S ok thanks

nope, that's how its supposed to work...you have to edit the rest yourself to make it turn on based on items, etc. also the fps drop can't really be avoided, all I can suggest is making your maps smaller (100x100 got rid of the problem for me)

It actually can be optimized quite a lot (such as only updating the light if it moves a few pixels instead of every frame) but none of that is covered by the guide.

oh great Spodi (xD) will u tell us how to do that one day?

when I tried that it just gave me a monstrous lag whenever I moved the mouse, which made the game feel even worse because the speed was always changing from lag city to normal.

but then again there are probably much better ways of coding it than what I did, but without any guides Vicho is in the same boat as me. the game was at 1 or 3 fps on a map of 250x250 for me, but when I changed to 100x100 the fps went back up to over 30. of course it's not as good as optimizing the code, but if I can run the server and client at 30 fps on a 7 year old laptop, it should be good enough to get anybodies fps at a reasonable level.

out of curiosity what computer and what map size are you using? im still concerned that some players will take big hits to their game speed, if they somehow have older computers than the one I'm testing on.

One thing that has been mentioned is to just update the tiles in the screen. This will help a lot and works fine if you're updating every frame like the guide does by default. There has been a bit of discussion about this on some other post. I think it may be this one:

viewtopic.php?t=5462&highlight=light+slow

haha yeah that's the one where I kept asking for help. it does help the fps, I forgot that part, but you'll want to do it the way spodi suggests on the topic, not the other way suggested. otherwise you get an error whenever your light nears the edge of the map.

If someone is willing to decipher my works, maybe I'll bust out ol' VB for the first time in a few weeks and see if I can't optimize it myself. I will, of course, add tags to where I changed things outside of the original tutorial. I'd just need someone to write a guide out of it.

I'll take a look im not going to gurantee anything tho. I'm going to be taking a look at that current code when i get home from work

hey spodi... u do it and i will write the guide for it i decipher your class changing i can prolly do this as well.

sry for the double post.

Totally forgot about this. When I have the time, I'll give it an attempt. Though, a bit busy right now with my other project.

alright let me know when you go to do it

that dynamic lighting is supposed to be a small help for people who want it.
I'm very very pleased with that guide, and will be heavily changing it.
but the basics come from the guide, and thats what its for

of course theres a LONG way to light FX as in diablo and shooting 20 fireballs over the screen illuminating a dark cave