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\nThe camera in Kablooey is a fixed one that pans from left to right at a fixed speed, so it’s always the same. In the window labeled 1, the camera is moving quickly and a flare of the light in the window can be seen to the right, slightly tinted purple. In window 2, the camera is slowing down into position, as is the window flare. In window 3 the camera has stopped, and the two lights have merged together. It looks great in motion.
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\nThe problem with this is that the building I’m showing is the only one that had a decent looking effect. All the other buildings looked very unnatural with the light overlay, perhaps because of the windows being directly next to each other unlike the building shown above. Not only that, but the layers, as I feared, weren’t going to work.
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\nLet me explain the layer situation. In Game Maker, each object is assigned a number. This is the layer that it resides in. So, if the building is layer 100, and the street is layer 10 and the car is layer 1, then the building will be behind the road, and the road behind the car. The color lighting effects are at layer -1000, which means nothing should be over this layer. However, if I want the window lights to look right, I need them to not be affected by the color lighting, so the window lights are at -1500…which unfortunately puts them on top of the road and cars, and doesn’t look right.
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