Lighting can be a really complicated thing, especially if your looking for shader based lighting. I think typically there are 2 types of lighting, static lights that don't emit shadows, and dynamic lights which cast a shadow. You could use shaders for static lights I'm sure, but you could also do it with a simple gradient mask and a blendmode. A lot of the lighting shaders in the market will come with a static and a dynamic shader and let you choose the one you want. My suggestion, either find an existing system that you like from here:
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Or, you can follow one of these tutorials and try adapting it for what you want
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YoYo Games is the home of GameMaker. The easy to use powerful game engine that is the best for 2D games. Making games is for everyone.
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YoYo Games is the home of GameMaker. The easy to use powerful game engine that is the best for 2D games. Making games is for everyone.
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If you've been using GameMaker Studio 2 for any length of time, you will almost certainly have come across blend modes, and probably even used them in your g...
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In a previous article that we published on blend modes, we covered the simple blend modes that you can use in your games, and gave a basic overview of h...
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Best of luck
