[EFFECT] DropShad effect

Dropshadow effect for 2D player sprite.

Parameters-

1, Rescalefactor - Reduce the shadow height by a percentage (0. = no change)(up to 100=flat)

2, blurAmount - Shadow blur amount. 0 to 6, 4 recommended.

3, shadowOpacity - Shadow opacity. 0 to 100, 16 default.

The effect works best best if your texture is a couple of pixels smaller than the bounding box.

fx files and demo capx-

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/22173473/DropShadFiles.rar

04/04/2016

'DropShadColor.fx

Added Parameters for Shadow color(rgb)

Works fine for layers.

Been needing this for a while.

Thanks.

chrisbrobs

First impressions.........err wow

Very cool effect, young sir!

newt

zenox98

Thanks for your feedback guys.

Hey chrisbrobs again great job.

Is there any chance in the feature to see an outer glow effect?

Cheers.

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Is there any chance to see outer glow effect?

https://www.scirra.com/forum/effect-outerglow_t170750

Try the above..only had a day to make it !

This drop shadow effect works really well. I tried it and set it to disable when not on the floor and it really added an extra layer of depth to the player. Thanks a lot for sharing!

+1

Bleenx

remy-jay

Glad to help

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UPDATE 04/04/16

Added parameters to set the Shadow Color (rgb)

1, red 0 to 100

2, green 0 to 100

3, blue 0 to 100

The FX files have been added to the download in the first post.

Inside the folder named 'DropShadColor fx ' for clarity.

chrisbrobs

Looks very cool, can't wait to try it out, thanks for sharing!:)

What about this kind of shadow?

ozzmotor there is already an effect for this, check out this page

But keep in mind, in webgl the effects are limitied to the sprite bounding box, so if you want to draw below the image, you will need a lot of empty space on the original image.

Thank You.

Great effect, I was looking for this! I there any chance to put the shadow under the character?

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Even if you can, that would mean you would have to add extra transparent area to the bottom of all your sprite (since you cant draw outside of it in webgl), for many objects/animations that can be a very bad thing to do, maybe you'd be better off adding a paster object and drawing the sprites to it, I've done it before, works good.