Tried to set the background color in the ftxui canvas and weirdly it started doing almost what I want with lighting, but I didn't write any code to do that. There's some bug in how I'm doing it that's causing it to set the colors...correctly. Must find out why.

gui.cpp

@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ using namespace ftxui;
 using namespace components;
 
 GUI::GUI(DinkyECS::World &world, Map& game_map) :
+  $darkness({1600,800}),
   $game_map(game_map),
   $log({{"Welcome to the game!"}}),
   $status_ui(0, 0, SCREEN_WIDTH, SCREEN_HEIGHT),
@@ -46,6 +47,10 @@ GUI::GUI(DinkyECS::World &world, Map& game_map) :
   $sounds.load("combat_player_hit", "combat_player_hit.mp3");
   $sounds.load("combat_enemy_hit", "combat_enemy_hit.mp3");
   $sounds.load("combat_miss", "combat_miss.mp3");
+
+  $light_test.loadFromFile("./assets/light_test.png");
+  $darkness.setTexture(&$light_test);
+
   resize_map(MAX_FONT_SIZE);
 }
 
@@ -220,8 +225,8 @@ bool GUI::handle_ui_events() {
 
 void GUI::run_systems() {
   auto player = $world.get_the<Player>();
-  System::enemy_pathing($world, $game_map, player);
   System::motion($world, $game_map);
+  System::enemy_pathing($world, $game_map, player);
   System::collision($world, player);
   System::death($world);
 }
@@ -240,11 +245,13 @@ void GUI::shake() {
 void GUI::render_scene() {
   $renderer.clear();
 
-  $status_ui.render();
-  $renderer.draw($status_ui);
   $map_view.render();
   $renderer.draw($map_view);
 
+  $status_ui.render();
+  $renderer.draw($status_ui);
+
+
   $renderer.display();
 }
 
@@ -253,16 +260,16 @@ int GUI::main() {
   create_renderer();
   run_systems();
 
-  while($renderer.is_open()) {
+  do {
     render_scene();
 
     if(handle_ui_events()) {
       run_systems();
+      handle_world_events();
     }
 
-    handle_world_events();
     std::this_thread::sleep_for(10ms);
-  }
+  } while($renderer.is_open());
 
   return 0;
 }

gui.hpp

@@ -39,6 +39,8 @@ struct ActionLog {
 const int GAME_MAP_POS = 600;
 
 class GUI {
+  sf::RectangleShape $darkness;
+  sf::Texture $light_test;
   string $status_text = "NOT DEAD";
   Canvas $canvas;
   Map& $game_map;

map.cpp

@@ -178,10 +178,13 @@ bool Map::neighbors(Point &out, bool greater) {
   int cur = $paths[out.y][out.x];
 
   // BUG: sometimes cur is in a wall so finding neighbors fails
-
+  for(size_t i = 0; i < dirs.size(); ++i) {
-  for(int i = 0; i < 4; ++i) {
     Point dir = dirs[i];
-    int diff = inmap(dir.x, dir.y) ? cur - $paths[dir.y][dir.x] : -1000;
+    int target = inmap(dir.x, dir.y) ? $paths[dir.y][dir.x] : 1000;
+
+    if(target == 1000) continue; // skip unpathable stuff
+
+    int diff = cur - target;
 
     if(diff == 1) {
       out = {.x=dir.x, .y=dir.y};

status.txt

@@ -1,8 +1,13 @@
 TODAY'S GOAL:
 
+* Use d-map to create a mapping of light strength and use that to alter the value of colors in the map.
+* Make it possible to visualize the d-map when I need to.
 
 TODO:
-* Keep panel unified by implementing border and backing on grids too.
+* Neighbors needs a rewrite
+* Neighbors algo isn't using greater parameter
+* Look in system.cpp::draw_map for notes on a Lighting system.
+* Write a method for renderer that can translate coordinates.
 * Can std::any be defaulted to a noop in the events?
 * Save file isn't saving gold.
 * Inventory needs to be better, but need some kinds of "weapons" or other loot to get and not just gold.

systems.cpp

@@ -9,6 +9,8 @@
 #include "ftxui/screen/terminal.hpp"  // for SetColorSupport, Color, TrueColor
 #include "dbc.hpp"
 
+const bool DEBUG_MAP=false;
+
 using std::string;
 using namespace fmt;
 using namespace components;
@@ -132,6 +134,8 @@ void System::draw_entities(DinkyECS::World &world, Map &game_map, ftxui::Canvas
         && pos.location.y >= cam_orig.y && pos.location.y <= cam_orig.y + view_y) {
       Point loc = game_map.map_to_camera(pos.location, cam_orig);
       // the 2 and 4 are from ftxui::Canvas since it does a kind of "subpixel" drawing
+
+      // BUG: this color is a made up BS color for seeing entities until I can work on them
       canvas.DrawText(loc.x*2, loc.y*4, tile.chr, Color::RGB(255, 50, 50));
     }
   });
@@ -142,7 +146,8 @@ void System::draw_map(DinkyECS::World &world, Map &game_map, ftxui::Canvas &canv
   const auto& player = world.get_the<Player>();
   const auto& player_position = world.get<Position>(player.entity);
   Point start = game_map.center_camera(player_position.location, view_x, view_y);
-  Matrix &walls = game_map.walls();
+  auto &walls = game_map.walls();
+  auto &paths = game_map.paths();
 
   size_t end_x = std::min(view_x, game_map.width() - start.x);
   size_t end_y = std::min(view_y, game_map.height() - start.y);
@@ -151,10 +156,30 @@ void System::draw_map(DinkyECS::World &world, Map &game_map, ftxui::Canvas &canv
     for(size_t y = 0; y < end_y; ++y) {
       string tile = walls[start.y+y][start.x+x] == 1 ? config.WALL_TILE : config.FLOOR_TILE;
       // the 2 and 4 are from ftxui::Canvas since it does a kind of "subpixel" drawing
+      // LIGHT: if tile is in light then color ++ otherwise --
+      // LIGHT: is put into the/a collision map and if a cell is a light's neighbor
+      // it gets brighter.
+      const int LIGHT_MIN = 30;
+      const int LIGHT_MAX = 180;
+
+      Point light_at{start.x+x, start.y+y};
+      int dnum = paths[light_at.y][light_at.x];
+      int light_value = std::clamp(255 - (dnum * 75), LIGHT_MIN, LIGHT_MAX);
+
       if(tile == config.WALL_TILE) {
-        canvas.DrawText(x * 2, y * 4, tile, Color::RGB(70, 70, 70));
+        canvas.DrawText(x * 2, y * 4, tile, Color::HSV(230, 20, 20));
+      } else if(DEBUG_MAP) {
+        string num = format("{:x}", dnum);
+        num = num.size() > 2 ? "*" : num;
+
+        canvas.DrawText(x * 2, y * 4, num, Color::HSV(dnum * 20, 150, light_value));
       } else {
-        canvas.DrawText(x * 2, y * 4, tile, Color::RGB(20, 20, 20));
+        // floor tile or similar
+        // BUG: no idea why this works but this actually implements decent light
+        canvas.DrawText(x * 2, y * 4, tile, [&, light_value](auto &pixel) {
+            pixel.foreground_color = Color::HSV(30, light_value / 2, light_value);
+            pixel.background_color = Color::HSV(30, 20, light_value);
+            });
       }
     }
   }