3D How to make one color glow.

[Vikom]

Hi!
I'm thinking about good ways to make night windows.
I've been thinking about a solution with windows of two colors. The windows of the first color have lighting enabled same as the building has. The windows of second color have the lighting disabled, so they glow.
I think this could be achieved with shaders but I've never been working with them and I have no idea how to do anything with them.

Thanks for any answers.

 

[CardinalCoder64]

If shaders seem a little intimidating, you can use an asset. GM has their own asset store, and there's a whole section on shaders that you might be interested in: https://marketplace.yoyogames.com/category/5/shaders

 

[Wraithious]

An easy way you could do it without shaders is by following this simple video tutorial on lighting, then when you make your window sprite have 2 sub images, one with your normal window and the next with your night window, and in the draw event of your window object check if it is night, or alternatly if image_single=1, before drawing the lighting effect

 

[samspade]

Hi!
I'm thinking about good ways to make night windows.
I've been thinking about a solution with windows of two colors. The windows of the first color have lighting enabled same as the building has. The windows of second color have the lighting disabled, so they glow.
I think this could be achieved with shaders but I've never been working with them and I have no idea how to do anything with them.

Thanks for any answers.

I also recommend shaders, but if you want a simpler, but much less flexible, solution you could look through this page and some of the related functions:

http://docs.yoyogames.com/source/da...g/color and blending/draw_set_blend_mode.html

 

[Vikom]

Thank you!
The blend mode looks like something that could work and not be hard to use.