Creating a Light Cast / Comparison

Hi Guys,

I'm trying to figure out how I should build a light cast. As per the image, the character is holding say, a torch which highlights areas from it's central point (raycasting basically). I then need to be able to click on a lit area for an event.

Diagram Example: puu.sh/1mfsa

Do I basically need to fire out a whole spread of bullets? Any suggestions are helpful!

Hope you're having a good one!

ST~

rojohound made a capx showing how to do dynamic shadows (it needs the canvas-plugin)

dl.dropbox.com/u/5426011/examples14/shadow_cast.capx

Or you could use the solution by Rory:

Make a light source object and a black square object.

Set the black square object's height and opacity depending on the distance from the light source.

Pin the black square object from a point at the bottom of the black square object to the shadow casting object and set its angle to the opposite direction from the light source using Angle().

Yep, the canvas plugin is your best bet for this!