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Jake G
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4th February, 2014 at 04/02/2014 12:57:31 -
Ideally I'd like to somehow be able to use frames that I have already created but make everything in the scene appear to be more as if it is night time. The general darkening if the scene with maybe some highlights from the moonlight. Is there any easy way to achieve this - perhaps using shaders? Thanks!
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hapsi
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4th February, 2014 at 04/02/2014 15:48:23 -
If the resolution is small, the easiest way is to create a semi-transparent active object over the screen. However if there is a solution with shaders i'd recommend that.
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siven
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6th February, 2014 at 06/02/2014 08:43:53 -
I would make an object thats layered over top of everything, maybe use a filter to make it somewhat transparent and have it set to a timer to cycle through frames of an animation. you could imitate night and day like that.
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Jake G
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6th February, 2014 at 06/02/2014 13:02:33 -
Thanks for your replies! 
The resolution is 1280 x 720, ideally I'd like shaders as a transparent object will probably just dim everything. I don't need the scene to dynamically change from day to night. 90% of the game will be during "day time" but occasionally at some points there will be scenes at night time. I suppose I could just make a separate frame for these night time scenes - It would have been cool to re-use existing assets though 
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Sketchy
Cornwall UK
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6th February, 2014 at 06/02/2014 22:11:18 -
There probably isn't a suitable shader already, but it would be fairly trivial to write one that just cuts out a lot of the red and green, lowers the saturation a bit, and maybe ups the contrast slightly - which is basically all you need.
eg. http://sdrv.ms/LCCk16 (a *very* quick and simple example)
Or like the others say - just a dark orange object on top of the frame, with a "subtract" effect, ought to be a simple and effective solution.
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Jake G
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10th February, 2014 at 10/02/2014 08:20:10 -
The dark orange + subtract worked pretty well thanks everyone.
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