Guys, I love you, no homo. You helped me achieve exactly what I needed.

You fucking rock.

Using a plain vanilla stencil will only work in restricted cases. If the foreground is made of image with "holes" in it (=transparency) then a stencil will not work. A stencil function always considers the full rectangle of an image. A solution is given on the wiki-page on stencils (see p...

draw_background() love.graphics.setStencil(draw_foreground()) draw_foreground() love.graphics.setStencil() [wiki]love.graphics.setStencil[/wiki] setStencil says you ONLY draw to where the stencil draws. (the stencil is just a function with stuff that is drawn) I can't draw the background manually, ...

kikito wrote:Show us the code. Give us a .love file showing the issue. Otherwise it's too difficult to help you.

There's so much code and stuff that I'd have to spend hours to pack everything into a separate .love file.

Edit: argh, no automerge. ;_;

What method are you using for drawing the lighting? Is it a shader or a mesh or something else? It's a spritebatch. A spriteBatch like 1 sprite per pixel? *cough* inefficient *cough* I was guessing for a shader and you did not really explain how you did the lightning. 1. Draw the background 2. Star...

micha wrote:What method are you using for drawing the lighting? Is it a shader or a mesh or something else?

It's a spritebatch.

Zer0 wrote:Probably using a canvas for the foreground (everything BUT the background) that is shaded and drawing it ontop of the unshaded background.
[wiki]Canvas[/wiki]

That won't do anything.

So I have lighting in my game, however I came across an issue - the shadows are drawn on the background. I need a way of preventing the shadows from being drawn on the background. Here's the problem I came across: https://love2d.org/imgmirrur/MvzBhmz.png The orange'ish color is the background, and o...

How would I go about serialising C data? I am currently using the FFI library to create a structure that I store lots of data in, and being able to save it is crucial.

What's a screenshot or game example that demonstrates the look you want to achieve with the lighting? We might be able to help with it (and it might be a good idea to make a dedicated thread for it at this point.) Here's what the lighting looks like at the moment: https://www.dropbox.com/s/g5n70g82...