[RELEASED] 2D Light System

Asset Store
Website
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Web Demos:
> Magical Light
> Create A Light
> Particles
> Scroller
> 2D Platformer

Android Demos:
> Create A Light
> Scroller

Screenshots:




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*Unity Pro only.

 

Wow, this seems pretty cool!
Any chance you'll support:

- Unity Free
- 2D Toolkit

?

 

thank you!)

Unity Free - no

Likely to work with 2D Toolkit in the near future check)

 

Seems like a really neat system, looks great in the previews!

 

WHAT! why not ;(

Why can't this asset support unity free? I assume it depends on a pro feature.
but anyways looks promising!

P.S how dose this lighting system work? I would like to know

 

Oh man, this asset looks incredible and a lot better than all the other 2d light solutions I've seen!

2DToolkit support would be essential though. Also, will you provide the source code?

 

oh wow, very nice stuff....Pro only huh....well, id blast off 1500 to be able to use this.

 

how is it lighting up the outer edge of the entire environment? is it masked somehow? really adds to the fell of the game, amazing.

 

Very cool, I like that it's not dependent on colliders. Too bad it won't support Unity Free though

 

Wich is a shame for both the developer and the community as im sure most developers are on free, wich in turn would make this asset almost dodge sales.

Make it work on free(if its supported) and this asset will do incredibly good!

 

I assume there must be a critical limitation of Unity Free that makes it impossible :/

 

Source code has a separate cost becouse as the author technology.
The most important image quality and performance. In the near future support for the free version will not. Unity3D free has technological limitations.
lighting up the outer edge using the special mask. This is an optional feature

 

Awesome! A bit laggy though

 

Will this support "cone" lights? Would be cool to implement on something like an enemy's line of sight.

 

Yes of course! There is support for spot lights ( "cone" lights )



soon to be updated web demo!

 

yeha thats what i thought. We are getting Pro shortly tho so will give this a whiel, it has to be the best looking 2D light asset ive seen sofar even tho a few others arent far behind. More web demos yay!

 

Any idea when is this coming to the Asset Store?

 

Update Web Demo!!! http://unity3d.hol.es/GPU2DLightSystem/Demo2.html



In the new version demonstration are cone lights with texture mask support (blue spot light in the demo)

 

That looks and runs great!
Well done

 

OSX Mavericks via Safari, some kind of shader error. Totally pink background.

 

Same for me, but I'm not on Mavericks, still on 10.8.5 MacOsX in Firefox.

 

Imaginaryhuman thanks a lot! We have fixed this bug) can test

 

I cant get either demo to download at all right now, not sure why

 

Will this work on mobile?

 

Your demos still aren't working for me.. http://unity3d.hol.es/GPU2DLightSystem/Demo2.html does not download anything at all. Windows or Mac, various browsers.

 

I got it working now on mac but not windows safari. It looks pretty nice, runs smooth. I believe this technique uses a radial blur with a grab pass?

 

Hey lmsAlterEgo, don't abandon this! I'd love to buy it (when it's available) but would be awesome if you could answer our questions.

 

Really want this - cant wait for the asset store post!

 

Hello.
Now the system does not work on mobile =(. I did port system on a mobile phone, but he is still working with a very low FPS, if I do enough optimization is mobile support is enabled

 

Would you be able to put out a beta on the PC for now? I'd love to test it out!

 

Unfortunately the method used, which I think is a radial blur with quite a lot of texture samples, is going to be slow. It looks great, it's possibly the most versatile per-pixel lighting method, but by its very nature it requires a tonne of texture reads to blur/streak the light, and on mobile every time you add one more texture lookup things get slower. Not sure how you will overcome that short of some kind of quality reduction?

 

It remains to fix a bug and I'll post, presumably at the weekend.

Now plugin in the phone does not work, and the port provides low FPS (10-15). I have a couple of ideas of how to optimize the algorithm

 

/waits

 

looks adorable, i'd love to buy it

 

Hooray!!! The system completed yet and is awaiting moderation!
Updated demo scenes.

 

Cool! Glad to see this works on mobile now. What's the performance like?

 

Nexus 7 2013
Demo Scroller 60 FPS
Simultaneously 4-6 light ~30 FPS.

 

Can you provide apk builds with demos for testing on android?

 

Demo Scroller apk > Link

 

Added demo Create A Light for android > Link

 

Added a new video!

 

Great work. What is release date?

 

Asset is ready and pending moderation. Next week should appear in Asset Store

 

Added web demo 2D Platformer > Link

 

Opened website > Link

 

Added web demo Magical Light > Link

 

Hooray!!! RELEASED! > Link

 

nice 1 man

 

Hi,
It looks great! however i'm curious if it can be used to light a scene. In our game it's a must have feature. I thinking about effect like here: http://bulbboygame.com
Maybe you can provide example with such a usage of the asset?

 

How about 2d toolkit support , any news on this?

Also , can you let us know a bit more about how the system works? Like brief explanation on how the system handles lighting so we know if it can be integrated well enough into the existing system that we use.

At the moment, all I can guess is that it must be using render texture feature and lighting is done at the shader level, but we need to know a bit more than that to be able to decide.

Is there any doc on this?

In order for the lighting to work properly, what is the min stuff we need to do? Such as do we need to set up our textures in certain way, or do we have to provide extra masking texture to lit up the edge etc.

Also can we move the lighting bounding box around? In run time?