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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.

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

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

Azhukar wrote: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.

Helvecta wrote: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)

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.

Automatik wrote: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.

Automatik wrote:and more reliable.

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