Need Help with Creating a Spotlight Effect

[Mookal]

I’d like to have a short level intro where a spotlight is on the player, and then expands outward to reveal the rest of the screen. It should be a circle drawn at the player’s position with the rest of the screen being black.
I know the solution to this somehow involves Blend Modes, but I haven’t gotten the hang of them just yet. How can I achieve this effect?

 

[obscene]

Make a surface
Fill it with black
Set blend mode to subtract
Draw a circle (and scale it as needed)
Draw the surface over the whole screen

This video is pretty close to what you need...

You could also cheat and just make a big black sprite with a hole in it and scale it.

 

[Mookal]

Make a surface
Fill it with black
Set blend mode to subtract
Draw a circle (and scale it as needed)
Draw the surface over the whole screen

This video is pretty close to what you need...

You could also cheat and just make a big black sprite with a hole in it and scale it.

This worked! Thanks for the solution.