Position binding to the character depending on its scale [SOLVED]

shaderActivateLighting(1)

shaderLamp(0, 1, {1000,500,1}, {0,0,0}, {0.01,0.005,0}, {0,0,0}, {1,1,1}, 1)

bind("light1", "lights[0].position",

shaderPoint(inverty(scrollfix(offset(field("Characters.name.Position"),{0+c.Size.x\3, 0+c.Size.y\2}))),10))

--place a dot in the middle of the character sprite at Y , and 1/3 at X, at any sprite size. The idea is, for example, if the character carries a torch, a lantern, etc.

First off, I'm not going to be providing you with a solution as I still haven't learnt how to use the bind() function, I tend to use mainLoop instead if I want to dynamically loop lighting things as I find it much easier to read than the bind function.

Anyway, I'm just going to break a few things down for you & maybe you will be able to figure out the calculations you need to make to get it to work yourself as math is something I am not very good at.

game.CurrentCharacter.Size or Characters["Tom"].Size equals the current percentage scale value of the character & not the height & width of the character in pixels, to do that you would use something like this: graphics.getAnimationSize(game.CurrentCharacter).

game.CurrentCharacter.Position or Characters["Tom"].Position is the coordinate on the character that you defined the animation center, which is usually placed somewhere down near the feet, so you need to take that into consideration when you are wanting to offset from it, especially if the animation center coordinate is not the same value in each of the animations belonging to same character.

What I believe you actually need to do is figure out the x & y offset value that you would want to use if the character scale was at 100% & then you would do some math calculations against that based on the current character scale to get the adjusted offset, which I think (but I could be wrong - I'm bad at math remember) would be something along the lines of this...

Anyway, I think you should have enough information now to probably figure it out yourself.

P.S: in regards to particles you should also be able to reposition them with scripting too, but they would be linked to the scene they are assigned to. I don't know if it's possible to change the scene or object they are assigned to.

local p = graphics.getParticles(game.CurrentScene.Objects["example"])

p.center = {game.CurrentCharacter.Position.x, game.CurrentCharacter.Position.y - 50}

shaderActivateLighting(1)

local c = game.CurrentCharacter

shaderLamp(0, 1, {c.Position.x,c.Position.y-c.Size*5,1}, {0,0,1}, {0.0,0.0,0.0005}, {0,0,0}, {1,1,1}, 1)

end

registerEventHandler("mainLoop", "name")

script section: definition type script

execute a script >

execute a script >

killLamp() -- stop lamp

The reason it wouldn't end with shaderDeactivateLighting() is because you were turning the lighting back on inside of the function you were looping.