How to make a "light" follow a character in a dark level? (Uncategorized artifact)

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I’m a teacher and one of my students wants to make a top-down game where the main character is in a cave and the cave will be dark, but the character is holding a torch and when they move an illuminated radius follows the character.

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Hi @MrVargas,
I suggest adding darkness to the objects that are farther away from the player by using the colors behavior.

I have an example that shows how to do this:
https://flowlab.io/game/play/1505963

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@MrVargas - Another approach that isn’t nearly as flexible & nice, but probably simpler to implement is to cover the screen with a large “darkness” object that has a hole in it representing the “light”. Just scale the darkness object up and position it over the player, like this:

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You could add a sprite (a very big one) that has a hole in the center of it, and attach it to the player.

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Mr. Grazer I making a top down game with darkness effect. I saw the example you sent and it work out well. Next level I added a camera behavior and the darkness effect isn’t following the player anymore. Can you help me?

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Please don’t revive old topics create your own. But did you spawn the light object in the UI layer?

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Not yet. I’m kind of new to flowlab.

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Yup that’s your issue then lol

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I mean not spawning in your light object

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Im just gonna ask my friends.

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Wha- ok that’s fine…