Question about normalmaps

So I have a question, will there be a feauture where you can add normalmap in Visionaire 5 (or any update?) - it would be an awesome feauture, no doubt. And would  attract a bunch of new developers as well.

Grateful for any reply, here's to hoping!

Bump.

Just to answer it, yes, it's possible, but not without scripting. Any experience with shaders ? And how would your use of them look like ?

I guess his plan is to use some kind of light sources (maybe shader lamps) to affect the displayed scene objects/characters. But im not sure if this is easy to implement a combination of those two separate things right now at all.

I'm interested in specifics.

Hello, much like Sebastian said. 

Example: I have a character, and I let this 2D-character have a normalmap projected on it. This in combination with lets say, some kind of 2D-lightsource to bring the feeling of it being dynamic (characters lights and shadows then change depending on where you go in a particular scene), and giving depth. 

That said I don't have experience with shaders, but I'm more asking if this feature will be available in the engine, so that people dont need to have expertise in shaders and lua.

Spritelamp is a good tool for making normalmaps (maybe Visionaire could collaborate with the developer of it (the developer is really friendly)?, and this particular example I found in this video is for Unity but I guess you get the idea.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmoVfzz5P_E

I made a small template, to show how it would look.

In your opinion is that good or bad? It looks pretty decent as long as it doesn't get too close to the lightsource. Not sure why you used red though...

P.S: I wondered why you had been messing around with sprite lamp recently. Mystery solved.

Arghh, I'm so excited to see it, but it says that the file/game cant be opened/loaded. I tried opening it in both VS4 and VS5 beta without luck. *inserting crying face*. Something I'm doing wrong?

Why are you using the beta ?

I wasn't sure what RC was (I thought it was a build specific for other things). . It looks nice! It's quite a lot of code though for someone who's used to not coding , I'll play around with it and see what happens. I'll change around some numbers and see if I can add a fixed light to start with.