[johnjohan1]

Hi all,

In this game of ours, we have to add this feature to control screen brightness from within the game. It's a tedious task to get out of the game and adjust the screen brightness when they feel like doing so. Is there anyway I could possibly include this feature? We develop our games in actionScript 3.0. Not flash games, but PC games. Please so tell me if I'm not clear enough.

Thankyou in advance.

[stayscrisp]

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We develop our games in actionScript 3.0. Not flash games, but PC games.

*facepalm*

Seriously, again.

[johnjohan1]

Oh gosh! Alright, just leave that part. Which ever be the platform, any idea how to do it?

[stayscrisp]

Do you mean actually change the brightness of the overall computer or just the game itself?

[johnjohan1]

It should ideally only affect the brightness of the game. But I suppose either way is fine. I'm quite clueless actually on which is easier or how to implement it.

[stayscrisp]

In flash you can do this

http://megaswf.com/serve/2013954

I did this using the slider component and colorTransforms.

[johnjohan1]

Thank you. I had already done that before. But the problem is, this can only be done to individual movieclips. I have to do this to the entire screen.

[ButchDean]

You could try adjusting the light properties in your game world. No idea how to do that in AS3 though.

[stayscrisp]

johnjohan1, on 27 January 2012 - 06:18 AM, said:

Thank you. I had already done that before. But the problem is, this can only be done to individual movieclips. I have to do this to the entire screen.

Movieclips! Now I know you're only working in flash.

Okay so you've already done what I suggested, what's stopping you from applying it to all the movie clips in a loop? Flash makes getting hold of objects extremely easy. Chuck them in an array and loop through them applying the colour transform.

[johnjohan1]

Thought about that too, but there will be a hundred thousand movieclips and buttons and what-nots on screen which are dynamically loaded and removed in every frame. So it's not really a practical option. I think I have found a simpler way. We load each level and screen as a separate swf file. If I could control the brightness there, it should solve the problem. Worth a try. Thanks a ton for your troubles though.