Does this example still exist? Point Light

[the-simian]

I was browsing the dev logs and was curious about maybe adding a point light, like in this image. I know I could add a custom GL pipeline, but I figured since this image exists, maybe at once time there was a demo showing how to do this with Phaser 3. can this still be done (as of about v 3.10.x)  or is this gone? Thank you to anyone who knows

or this...

Where the tilemap is blocking the point - light.

[rich]

Wow, that's old stuff - right back from 2015 iirc! This never even made it past the very first R&D builds. There are no shadows in v3 currently (so you can't emulate the images above), although it's definitely something that will be added eventually.

[jdotr]

You can kind of fake it!

...it's distinctly slower than if it was all done in a GL pipeline but it still looks cool and is sufficiently performant if carefully applied (the jitter in the gif is a result of screencap, the scene runs at 60pfs):

 

It's basically two layers:

The background (becomes the unlit version) that has the tint set to the ambient color of the light. Next I add the layer that I want to have lit and apply a geometry mask based on a raycast from my light's point. Red Blob Games has a good guide on how raycasting works & how to implement it. My code is not quite in a state that it would be useful to share though I can try to nudge it in that direction if folks want.

There are plenty of caveats and limitations on what you can do with this but for a lot of situations this can probably get you pretty close to what you had in mind.

best of luck, lmk if you have any questions