FlxCamera problem

Thommy Elfving

I have a shader effect applied to the default camera which makes it look like night time (dark, blue-ish color).
I didn't want this effect to be applied to my gui elements, so I made a new camera for this and assigned some gui stuff to it like so:

FlxG.cameras.add(guiCamera);
guiThing1.cameras = [guiCamera];

However, after doing this, the shader effect is no longer visible... so then I tried setting the background color of the new camera to transparent like so:

guiCamera.bgColor = FlxColor.TRANSPARENT;

After doing this, the shader effect becomes visible again, but the gui-elements disappear; it turns out that they always disappear when you set the camera's background color to transparent. Is this... normal?

I guess I could set the shader property on every single thing in the game, except for the gui-stuff, if nothing else works. Does anyone have any ideas or suggestions?

xhunterko

Have you considered using this demo code instead:

http://haxeflixel.com/demos/DynamicShadows/

And remove the radius. I think.

Or the same thing with this library:

https://github.com/01010111/zerolib

With a ZSpotLight. Simply add the spotlight below your gui in your create.

        var spotlights = new ZSpotLight(0xff004080);
	spotlights.add_to_state();
	spotlights.add_light_target(mouseCon, 0);

Thommy Elfving

Thanks for the reply.
Actually, I'm the one who made that DynamicShadows demo :p Anyways, I'm on OpenFl Next and blend modes don't work properly there as far as I can tell (don't think they ever have)... I'll have to do some more experimenting :alembic:

xhunterko

Oh. Your welcome for the reply. Sorry I wasn't any help.

Thommy Elfving

It turns out that it was a bug that made stuff disappear when the camera's bgColor was transparent. I upgraded to the latest git version of flixel and got it working again.