2D Lighting and Day&Night cycle in under 5 minutes! Godot 3.2 Tutorial

In this Godot Engine tutorial, I show you how to set up 2D lighting, including advanced shadows and a simple Day&Night cycle mechanic!

⌚ Timestamps

0:00 Intro
0:27 Basic 2DLight setup
1:24 Ambient Lighting
1:44 Dynamic Shadows
2:35 Improved Shadows
3:06 Day&Night cycle

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Music Credits

[bitbraindev]

Thank you so much for watching my Godot tutorial series! Make sure to check out other Godot tutorials on my channel.

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EDIT: you can still see at 3:06 that wall shadows are shown on the player. The correct way to fix this is by setting the item cull mask on the Light2D and the light mask of the player sprite.


- Miguel

[DevDuck]

This was an excellent tutorial, I learned a lot. My prototype day/night cycle was far, far more complex than it needed to be before watching this. Great job!

[dylzdesigns]

Thank you for this! The more I learn about Godot the more I realize how amazing this engine is.

[scottisitt]

Wow. That was really cool! The duplicate point lights...I would not have thought of that. Thanks for showing us this. Liked and subscribed.

[hoihoi]

For long days and nights use this function in GODOT 4: self.color = NIGHT_COLOR.lerp(DAY_COLOR, (sin((PI/2)*cos(time))+1)/2)

[bstar]

Fantastic format, lots of info, very quick explanations and a Github project to work with. Bravo.

[VuVuuInc]

I don't use Godot, but if I ever do, this looks amazing, and will definitely come back to this video! Good Job!!

[Alltagsabenteuer]

is abs(sin(time)) really the way to go? That way the function is bumping back from the X axis and makes night (or day) way too short. Shouldn't it rather be (sin(time)+1)/2 in order to lift the whole function above the axis and make it scale between 0…1?

[gamedevel]

This is exaclty what I needed for my game right now haha! Good timing!

[arkbjorn]

Great tutorial. Straight to the point and very informative.

[salarycat]

Really nice results and explained in an effortless way. Thanks for sharing the source. So much to learn still...

[knuddlerinokripperino]

after finishing my own cycle i wanted to see how other people did it. i cant believe how much this tutorial taught me! now im going to rewrite my stuff tho :S

[chaomatic]

I don't code, and I never imagined something that looked that simple could have so much going on! Everytime I see a tutorial like this, I gain some more respect for indie game devs out here :3

[foofightfox]

Really helpful and easy to understand! The editing was done really well so my attention was 100% focused on the right parts of the video

[RafaFiedo]

nice job! Nice usage of linear interpolate :)

[potatolord]

abs(sin(time))) will make nights shorter than days, Instead do range_lerp(sin(time), -1, 1, 0, 1)

great content btw <3

[arttriesgamedev]

your content has always been my go to video when it comes to godot :D

[malimakes]

Cool stuff bbrain! 2D lighting is something that looks pretty cool! Nice job!

[ilayws]

Could you put your layout files in the description? I really like the code font and colors :)
Nice vid!

[secroit]

thanks for the tutorial. where is the tilemap occlusion option in godot 4.3?