I want to add darkness in my 2D game.

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Hello guys, I'm making a 2d top down shooter game and it works perfectly. I've added some difficulties in my game. But I want to make my stage dark. A light will follow the hero and players will be able to see a certain amount of area. Can you tell me how to do this? Or give me a clue or something?

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Hi!
For adding "darkness" just ad a CanvasModulate node, and change its color to something dark.

Lights in the lame layer will make the areas where they reach less dark. Check out this:
https://godotengine.org/qa/user/kaylamarquez

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A light will follow the hero and players will be able to see a certain amount of area. Can you tell me how to do this? Or give me a clue or something? for more you can read https://godotengine.org/qa/user/brendaray

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For adding "darkness" just ad a CanvasModulate node, and change its color to something dark.

Lights in the lame layer will make the areas where they reach less dark. Check out this
https://godotengine.org/qa/user/joyceconley

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A light will follow the hero and players will be able to see a certain amount of area. Can you tell me how to do this? Or give me a clue or something? for more you can read
https://godotengine.org/qa/user/DiannHays

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Hi!
For adding "darkness" just ad a CanvasModulate node, and change its color to something dark.

Lights in the lame layer will make the areas where they reach less dark. Check out this: https://www.gdquest.com/tutorial/godot/2d/limiting-vision-with-lights/

And this is the project of that tutorial: https://github.com/GDQuest/godot-mini-tuts-demos/tree/master/2d/limited-player-vision

It also includes how to make things invisible like in among us, but you have the basics covered there.

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Thank you very much. It really solved my problem.

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I'm glad to help!

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A light will follow the hero and players will be able to see a certain amount of area. Can you tell me how to do this? Or give me a clue or something? for more you can read: www.customcabinetsnc.com
https://godotengine.org/qa/user/customcabinetsnc

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