SetColor is a filter applied to everything that's being drawn.

Since it moved to numbers between 0 and 1 in 0.11 you can imagine it like every color is multiplied by what's been set in setColor.

0 * 1 = 0. So no blue will be rendered.

I'll keep it short and just say no.

In theory possible but the CPU is soo much worse at calculating things like light.

Dynamic light is relatively expensive. If you can't use shaders for it on your laptop it's very most likely not capable of displaying dynamic light in any form.

Nothing to laugh about. I just sat here and wondered for quite a while myself. It's not that obvious. The source of this issue is this line: module(...) The module function encapsulates the following code. Such that it's public functions can be used when required but that the file itself has no acce...

Lighting is done via a shader on the graphics card. So the normal map needs to be used there as well. Since it's not changing the color but just defining additional information to have the light look more realistic. An introduction to shaders and lighting I liked quite a bit is by catlike coding . I...

As zorg was mentioning. The "top down lighting" can work with sidescrollers too.

What exactly are you missing?

Or to reword that question. What's the difference between top down and sidescroller lighting?

Knowing that makes helping a lot easier

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