How do I make an enemy line of sight visible (field of view)

What I'm trying to achieve is metal gear solid radar effect where you can see the field of view of an enemy

I tried using the layer blending method ( light layer) but I end up with a black screen all over except where the line of sight is... and if I reverse the effect I end up with a black field of view.

This is the tutorial I followed:

https://www.scirra.com/tutorials/796/the-land-of-light-and-shadows-part-3

Is it possible to achieve this effect ?

Thank you

You can just make a sprite in the shape and size of the field of view and pin it to the object

You can just make a sprite in the shape and size of the field of view and pin it to the object

Thank you for the reply,

Eventually if there is no real solution I will end up using this solution, the issue with this solution is when the sprite hit an obstacle it wouldn't feel real, the sprite will overlap the obstacle .

You may be able to do this with ShadowCaster. Here is a very crude example, I don't have much experience with it:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/gz1rfzz171zpr ... .capx?dl=0

dop2000 this looks promising thank you, I will tinker with this example and see if this will work out

Ps: doptrix is amazing !

Thanks!

Not working using shadow caster it always wrap around

R0J0hound do you think that this effect could be achieved in C2 ?

dop2000 this is amazing thank you so much, this is exactly what I'm looking for , but I couldn't understand how did you limit the length of the shadows ?

brandonP

The shadow itself is invisible. ShadowLight object has "Destination out" blend mode and the shadow works as a mask for FOV sprite. They both need to be on the same layer.