For the game I'm making, I have a PointLight2D source following my mouse. I'd like to have text visible only when in the light source, but it seems labels can't react to light emissions ?
#Can you apply lights on labels ?
restive junco
restive junco
The label text color is white but the light color is red
dusky cloak
okay so the color property of the light is red?
okay so the documentation page on using 2d lights says to use a canvasmodulate to make the entire scene darker before using the lights
since the lights won't work if the scene isn't darkened first
restive junco
okay so the color property of the light is red?
Yup, but it seems the problem is that the light can't get on top of the canvas layer, because it applies to nodes that are not part of it
restive junco
https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/tutorials/2d/2d_lights_and_shadows.html
I'll look into that
dusky cloak
get on top of the canvaslayer?
is the light on a different canvaslayer than the label?
restive junco
This is the Dialogue Balloon scene and the main scene
dusky cloak
well make the canvaslayer of the light higher than the canvaslayer of the text
the light won't affect anything that it is drawn under
canvaslayer has a layer property
higher values means it's drawn later
on top of the other nodes
restive junco
Isn't it the same canvasLayer ? I literally dragged my Canvas scene into the main scene
restive junco
Yes, DialogueManager
dusky cloak
maybe that makes its own canvaslayer? Idk
make a new canvaslayer and add the pointlight2d as a child of it and set the layer to something really high
restive junco
Found a way !
dusky cloak
...it might not work if dialoguemanager has a higher canvas layer
dusky cloak
Found a way !
what was it?
restive junco
Somehow changing this parameter on the light
But yeah, I'll look into the doc you sent me to make the whole scene dark, and I should be able to make the trick work
dusky cloak
👍
restive junco
So thanks