I want to make a 1st person flashlight, thats essentially a perfect circle that reveals whats behind a pitch black sprite. I know theres the trick where you have a pitch black sprite with a see-through circle in the middle, but that has a lot of downsides and I'd rather try the former solution. Is there any way to do this?

I think you are best using the “pitch black sprite with a see-through circle in the middle”.
To see through a pitch black sprite you could use ghost effect but that effects the whole sprite, or…
you could make a black background and have a white circle sprite and change objects ghost effect depending on the distance from the (center of the) circle but I don't think this would look good unless the objects were small

How would it work? How can a sprite make one area of a screen lighter but not affect the rest of the screen? Making an area darker is easy so the ‘hole in the middle’ method is much easier to implement.

I made a demo project here https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/284085216/ and it looks quite good! But if the objects were larger…probably not.

gor-dee wrote:

I made a demo project here https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/284085216/ and it looks quite good! But if the objects were larger…probably not.

Nice workaround. Probably of limited use in most circumstances but an inventive solution.

you need 4 sprites:

the flashlight
the button
the light
the thing that you want to see

1st: you need to make the background black (and the thing that you want to see)
2nd: add this script to the button:

when this sprite clicked
if <[light] = [1]> then 
set [light] to [0]
  else
set [light] to [1]
end

3rd: you need to add this script to the light:

when green flag clicked
forever
if <[light] = [1]> then 
show
else
hide
end
end

and your done!

wigglebug09 wrote:

you need 4 sprites:

the flashlight
the button
the light
the thing that you want to see

1st: you need to make the background black (and the thing that you want to see)
2nd: add this script to the button:

when this sprite clicked
if <[light] = [1]> then 
set [light] to [0]
  else
set [light] to [1]
end

3rd: you need to add this script to the light:

when green flag clicked
forever
if <[light] = [1]> then 
show
else
hide
end
end

and your done!

Not clear how this makes the item appear when you ‘shine’ the light on it.

How I use when its room and your using flashlights?
Ps: I making a The Dark Light in Scratch.
Pss. It when it click, you seen the room but not all the rooms (backgrounds).
Another Pss: when it click show, when it click again hide.

jarlskiejarl15 wrote:

How I use when its room and your using flashlights?
Ps: I making a The Dark Light in Scratch.
Pss. It when it click, you seen the room but not all the rooms (backgrounds).
Another Pss: when it click show, when it click again hide.

Please make another topic for others to reply to. This topic is from 9 months ago.

Yeah thnx.

how would i make a flash light in a top down game were my sprite is holding the flashlight? p.s. i am secretly a species of bagel named the funkybagel that was hidden by government i am a bagel with wings.