underwater screen tint

[ahref]

Underwater Screen Tint
15/3/08

Summary
in my current giaw project you can explore underwater in a diving suit to search for treasure. my underwater maps are working correctly but they dont look underwater. what i require is a script that changes the tint of the screen so that the further you go underwater the more blue the screen gets.

Features Desired

• ability to choose wether or not to apply this effect based on map id
• a safety feature that makes sure the tint doesnt go so far as to make it impossible to see

Mockups



but vertically

heres an underwater map at its current stage:


Games its been in
none that i know. although sonic 2 chemical stage



Did you search?
yes

Where did you search?

• hbgames.org
• rmrk.net

What did you search for?

• tint by depth
• tint by position

[Arrow]

Groovy! I would aim for a bit of a darker, greener, murkier blue though, for realism. Past that it's wicked cool, you had a good idea.

[Zylos]

Couldn't you just use something similar to this as your map background? This way, it will grow darker as you dive deeper.

[ahref]

that would apply only to the background. with tint it would apply it to the whole screen

[Leventhan]

You know, this might be possible in events-by moving the tint slowly somehow or a picture that has a blue gradient on it.
I said that, but I'm still finding out how myself.
[spoiler=.]
For my own VX game.[/spoiler]
OR
Use the new moghunter's VX transition script and somehow modify it so it transitions slowly the deeper the character dives.

Anyways, good idea there.
lol I might steal it.

[ahref]

thats no problem stealing the idea but if you find a way to do it GIMMIE lol

[Garge]

Just use an event running on parallel process, have it set a variable to character's map Y, and break up the stages of tint like so:

@> Control Variables: [0002:PlayersY] = Player's Map Y
@> Conditional Branch: Variable [0002:PlayersY] == # (whatever to map Y is you want  the tint to change at)
      @>Tint Screen (0,0,0,0), @60
      @>
:    Else
      @>
:    Branch End

Then just copy the Conditional Branch as many times as you want to change your tint.[spoiler][/spoiler]

[ahref]

ahh that works.

seeing as its GIAW and im running low on time ill just tint the screen to one color for now