Sprite Lamp: software that creates dinamic shadow

Hey everyone!

The creator of this awesome software called Sprite Lamp just posted about in a facebook group about his upcoming kickstarter and talked a little about it's software.

Basically, you can create dinamic shadows for 2d sprites, and it looks pretty nifty.

This a image found on his website, http://www.spritelamp.com/

<img src="http://snakehillgames.files.wordpress.com/2013/10/zombie_horizontalpreview_grey2.gif" border="0">

So, what do you think?

that can be great if can be integrated with construct2

Doubt anyone is reading this but back in December I did a write up which included a way of implementing the Sprite Lamp generated normals into Construct2.

gamepopper.co.uk/2013/12/23/first-hands-on-preview-spritelamp

gamepopper

Hey, thanks! Good article, and I never knew about this on C2. Already downloaded and I'm going to test it!

35$ for a no commercial version... lol.... never!

It looks like a nice tool, though:

You will still have to draw lots of images yourself, its not really a time saver or anyting.

And most of the images you need to make will generally be useless for all other tools/progs.

I'll pass.

Yeah, there's no easy time on this one, it is a lot of work... But still, imagine this on a 2D survival horror game or something. It would look amazing!

I think it would be easier to paint one normal map manually or model proxy object in 3d and render normal map then paint 5 images representing lightning on sprite ;)

I love this post and want to get more post of this type. Thanks for sharing this informational posting. Looking forward for more.

My question is how it would work for animated characters. Getting a consistent map from all 4 angles for every frame of animation could be difficult. I can definitely see it working well for background elements though.