Topic: Everything dark except circle around character? (Read 3255 times)

Marek · « **on:** August 13, 2004, 12:12:48 AM »

I'm a bit stumped at a major challenge. I've made a top-down maze puzzle and now I want to make it so that everything is dark except the area around the character, who has a flashlight. Sort of like some of the dungeons in Zelda: Link to the Past (except here it's just one puzzle in a regular 3rd person point and click adventure).

What would the most efficient way be to achieve this effect? Should I make a massively large (my screen size is 800x600, so it'd have to be 2400x1800

) black overlay sprite with a little hole in it that follows the character sprite when it moves? Or is there some other, more clever way to handle this?

Your help would be very much appreciated.

Mnemonic · « **Reply #1 on:** August 13, 2004, 07:06:33 AM »

Well, sorry, but I can't think of other solution than the overlay. You could optimize it a bit, though, such as composing the overlay of several tiles, so that it doesn't consume too much memory. There would be one square of black and one square with an oval "hole", then you could build a big square with a hole in it from those. Am I making sense?