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Transform Your RPG Maker MZ Worlds with Dynamic Lighting and Shadows!

Elevate your RPG Maker MZ game's atmosphere with the Light and Shadow Plugin! This powerful shader plugin breathes life into your maps by generating real-time shadows for walls, objects, and characters. Control dynamic lighting effects for immersive gameplay. Create stunning visual depth and captivating ambiances for your players.

Key Features for Immersive RPG Experiences

Unleash the full potential of your RPG Maker MZ projects with these essential features:

Real-Time Shadow Generation: Watch as step-style shadows dynamically adapt to your game world, casting realistic shadows from terrain-tagged tiles. The plugin supports shadows up to 6 tiles high! Experience full compatibility even during camera shakes and zooms.

Advanced Surface Shading: Enhance depth and realism by darkening the top surfaces of shaded objects. Based on the direction of the light source the tops darken and generate a great sense of depth. Easily adjust shadow intensity using a single game variable, dynamically adapting the game's visual characteristics within a heartbeat.

Character Shadow Support: Bring your in-game characters to the next level. Even large character sprites (up to 512px) are dynamically supported and rendered with proper shadows. The plugin is further designed to support bush blending effects and character animations. Shadows will naturally follow movements and animations for maximum immersion.

Full Lighting Control: Take command of every aspect of lighting with total control over angle, color, intensity, blur, and brightness – all configurable through game variables. Construct day/night cycles, weather effects, and magical spells using event commands to dynamically alter the look and feel of your maps.

Lightweight and Optimized: Shadow textures are cached from only the two most recent maps to reduce strain and performance issues. Furthermore, the plugin comes with an OFF command which allows you to completely release these caches, thus freeing up memory.

Seamless Integration and Easy Setup

The Light and Shadow Plugin offers a hassle-free setup process, allowing you to incorporate it into both new and existing RPG Maker MZ projects.

The easy-to-understand sample project guides you through the initial setup.

Quick Start Guide

Adjustable Parameters (All Controlled by Game Variables)

Control the lighting parameters on the fly!

Shadow Angle: 0 – 359°

Opacity: 0 (transparent) – 255 (opaque)

Shadow Color (R/G/B): –255 to +255 (Positive values strengthen the color, negative values weaken it.)

Shadow Density: Overall strength of the shadow

Shadow Darkness: How dark the shadow appears

Shadow Blur: Blur strength of the shadow edges

Shade Density: Darkness of object shading

Limitations

The following are currently not supported:

• Buildings 7 tiles or taller
• Multi-level terrain (two or more elevation steps)
• Shadows projected onto walls
• Objects placed on roofs
• Complex terrain such as arches or hollow structures
• Objects using walls as pedestals
• Slopes or diagonal staircases
• Vertical A2 fence shadow connections
• Map scaling below 1.0
• Plugins that dynamically change map size
• Light angles fixed to 0 / 90 / 180 / 270 degrees

Q&A

Q. I want to add a shadow to a chimney next to a roof.

A. Create a tile that includes the empty space around it and place it on the building’s side wall.

Q. I want shadows on an arch-shaped building.

A. Place the entire structure as a single tile using the BCDE tileset.

Q. I want shadows inside a skeleton-style structure with visible interiors.

A. Place black tiles with over 50% transparency inside the structure to create realistic shading.

Q. Shadows are missing when using layered tiles.

A. If a tile spans multiple layers, combine it into one tile before placing it.

・This pack is for use in RPG Maker Series or the engine of your choice.

・OK to be used in Commercial projects made in RPG Maker

・The modification, redistribution, or resale of this plugin bundle and any individual plugins is strictly prohibited.