Love2D Gradients

[DumpOnIt]

Hey everyone! I want remake a game I worked on (and got bored of) over a year ago. It was made in Flash and was an adventure game that made heavy use of gradients. Here is what the original Flash version looked like:



That's is a lot of gradient action! Are there any ways to make gradients work quickly like this in love?

Edit: Changed the video to a more recent one.

[Azhukar]

You can make gradients using shaders http://www.love2d.org/wiki/PixelEffect

[Helvecta]

On a somewhat related note, that video had me rolling balls, dude

[DumpOnIt]

You can make gradients using shaders http://www.love2d.org/wiki/PixelEffect

I don't know anything about shaders. I don't understand them to the point where they seem like magic! I'll look into that stuff, though. I just need a simple example to build off of, like a red square! The documentation at http://www.opengl.org/sdk/docs/manglsl/ is a little bit crazy!

There is also a sweet snippet at http://love2d.org/wiki/Gradients, but I'm still writing the animation part of the gradient maker, so I'm not sure if it will be fast enough yet.

On a somewhat related note, that video had me rolling balls, dude

Haha, that's rockin'! I switched the video now. (I accidentally put the old first development video)

[Automatik]

Yeah, the wiki method is way better than shaders here: It's faster and more reliable.
And to do a circular gradient, you can generate an image that look like a "ball" with imagedata:mapPixel(), then draw it where you want.

[Azhukar]

Yeah, the wiki method is way better than shaders here: It's faster

Not for what he wants to do. In his game he used changing gradients.

and more reliable.

Both are as reliable as you code them, the only issue may arise from ancient hardware that does not support shaders.