Dynamic Shadows in Geometry Dash 2.2 | Tutorial

Finally 2.2 is here and I‘ve got a new tutorial for you.
Enjoy :)
Level ID: 102447277
Chapters:
0:00 Example
0:32 1st Step (Vertices)
0:50 2nd Step (Gradient Trigger)
1:11 Important (New ID)
2:03 3rd Step (Area Move 1)
2:25 3rd Step (Area Move 2)
2:56 Result
3:03 Bonus
Song "Red Horizon" by Creo
• Creo - Red Horizon

[@unnamed_0]

You can use just 1 area trigger to affect all the vertices. Just give the outer ones a group and put that group into the trigger Also the effect id is useless in this video because effect id only used with area animate to tell the trigger what area to target. It's not a unique id like the gradient trigger's id

[@jonatanfontal8328]

Uses spawn remath

[@unnamed_0]

@@jonatanfontal8328 effect ids don't work with spawn remap

[@inDrinkabim]

So, yes you are right. One Area move trigger is enough for all vertices 👍 However, if you use more than one Area Move trigger, the ID is important, otherwise it’s not working (at least for me)

[@unnamed_0]

@@inDrinkabim you just set it up wrong. ID isn't necessary

[@inDrinkabim]

If I use 2 Area Move triggers with the same Effect ID, only one will work. If I increase the effect ID both are working.

[@febrizz1759]

ALL IN 2 DAYS BRO ☠️☠️☠️

[@ElSrSurvival]

And i thought the gd community was dumb

[@PabTSM-OfficialChannel]

@@ElSrSurvivalsome are

[@shittymcshittingson7125]

Someone’s gonna end up making the entirety of Minecraft in 2.2 I reckon

[@daswarzenschwein]

Sans fangirl

[@Redstoner34526]

@@shittymcshittingson7125someone already made fnaf 2 I bet it will be soon

[@n7x]

This is actually insane. The possibilities for 2.2 are literally endless. 2.1 editor already had some crazy stuff that was possible, 2.2 just completely changes everything

[@alf73]

What's great is that the community have made so much progress in 2.1 that some of the things added in 2.2 simplify and improve on them, we have a game where the community inspires the developer not just the developer inspiring the community.

[@anonymouspig992]

Rob really programmed an entire game engine for 2.2

[@sparchamp2]

Better than unity, and you don’t have to pay

[@kalgholiiyt]

@@sparchamp2 except you do have to pay lol

[@sparchamp2]

@@kalgholiiyt costs as much as a pack of gum

[@cataclysmi]

@@kalgholiiytAs in you don't have to pay for every install

[@vivanillah07]

it just needs a more robust variable system and it's now a fully-fledged programming language

[@BobBarnabas]

2.2 came out 3 days ago and we have already created a realistic lighting engine Im scared for the future of geometry dash

[@z1Lun1x]

1 month later: doom

[@PandaHappyYT]

I'm amazed for the future of geometry dash

[@flocon9388]

​@@z1Lun1xone year later: literally ragdoll 3D engine in GD

[@markell1172]

​@@z1Lun1xrendering doom in 2.2, an idea for a legendary here we go.

[@danmessi8142]

​@@flocon9388they made that in 2.1 lol

[@rakeun5453]

2.1 i could barely make a good looking level, but this level im working on in 2.2 is absolutely crazy and can’t wait to finish it

[@timeslice]

Goes to show the awesome additions for ease of use Thing is I still can’t make sense of 80% of it

[@HappyGick]

Alright... All I need to see now is Spu7nix showing up with a functional Doom port in GD. This update, man...

[@inDrinkabim]

Hehe, yeah

[@DigitalJedi]

That man will have a functional ray tracer before we know it.

[@dreyishere]

@@DigitalJedi he has already done that but maybe he'll make it better.

[@thecoalcub6012]

​@@DigitalJedi He already did that in 2.1 using spwn.

[@FinnishArsonist]

If you faded the gradient to black blending, woudn't it make the shadow fade as goes further, as if to simulate light reflecting and filling the area past it?

[@inDrinkabim]

That's actually a pretty interesting idea, yeah, it would be inconsistent though

[@inDrinkabim]

Ok I just tested it, it has layering issues that might be impossible to solve so, it doesn't look great

[@FinnishArsonist]

@@inDrinkabim unfortunate, though interesting. Still, the fact that dynamic shadows like this are possible is insane

[@195p2]

@@inDrinkabim what kind of layering issues? I believe I just solved them maybe

[@inDrinkabim]

@@195p2 the layering of the shadow itself, I used the lense circle for that but than you can use only one shadow at a time

[@Speed-TV]

Making the effect for just one blook looks super complicated. I don't know speedtek managed to apply this effect to the entire level with complex geometry and slopes

[@ThatRandomNova]

my god that is impressive stuff, amazing idea!

[@bexail3089]

the simplicity of building and the complexity of the result is insane

[@Bnja579]

For this cool effect that u just helped us make, i think u deserve a sub :D

[@artemisSystem]

whoa, this is really cool! how did you come up with it?

[@inDrinkabim]

I tried this since 2.1 and yeah, after I heard about the Gradient Trigger I knew it would finally be possible somehow. Then I just had fun with the new editor 👍🏻

[@gamerboygb6041]

That's so much better than my implementation, which involved rotate triggers in a spawn loop

[@WhatTheFudge919]

TYSM Bro! You really got that one effect I was finding the whole time..

[@CayKunGD]

I like this idea thanks man!

[@fantom6849]

*_хороший туториал! Спасибо ;))_*

[@Tarou9000]

This is amazing! I just commented because it helps the algorithm

[@kokodi01]

all praise the gradient trigger🛐🛐

[@Protogen18]

tysmc! I really needed a tutorial like this

[@highgroundobi-wan1490]

Nice thank you man!

[@emilyy03]

THIS IS GENIUS

[@Frosttbyte]

Great tutorial thank you

[@betankreeper]

Oh gosh, I hope you get more subscriber, this tutorial deserve more views

[@Default-nx6xp]

This is fantastic. I would love to see it implemented into large blocks with inside corners.

[@Ronak1107]

Could you do the inverse of this and have like a spotlight following the player rather than a shadow? And would that just be a change in the move area trigger? Or multiple things

[@inDrinkabim]

I finally did it, I've made a spotlight

[@inDrinkabim]

Gonna make another tutorial

[@MapleclawGD]

This is crazy. I learned some stuff but not near this extent at all.

[@andixpiwi8325]

you can still use a single area trigger for all the vertices and it will still work

[@MrBrineplays_]

Wait, that gradient trigger, it looks like it could be used to make 3d objects

[@inDrinkabim]

Exactly, a better parallax effect

[@raresps7653]

Bro jinxed it

[@MrBrineplays_]

@@raresps7653 When I saw the gradient trigger, I knew it was gonna be one of the most powerful triggers on the 3d rendering side

[@notmychannel67]

Cool! :O

[@pevvyi]

We boutta recreate Among Us with this one 🔥🔥🔥

[@inDrinkabim]

Yeah why not 😂

[@3weaks]

I really need it thanks

[@dingus290]

Thats gotta make for some dope transitions

[@byisairgonzalez8120]

Omfg thanks. this vid appears me today but i searched this past day haha

[@simplegeometry9475]

If you set movedist. to a negative number you could use it as a spotlight towards the player.

[@inDrinkabim]

Not quite, the vertices must be arranged differently. I covered all this in my second video.

[@mozvi1436]

Isn't there a way to reuse groups independently so that we don't need new ones for each structure?

[@inDrinkabim]

Good point but I haven't figured it out yet

[@mozvi1436]

@@inDrinkabim At 2:09 in Robtop's 2.2 trailer, the ability to remap spawn. I think it would be possible to implement that in your case

[@matthewzaczeniuk4892]

We about to have shaders in Geometry Dash

[@randomblueberry5019]

THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@GhostingDash]

Possible to make blocks behind shadows invisible?

[@inDrinkabim]

Pretty difficult

[@Keflen]

Would it be possible for the shadows to not overlap? Whenever a shadow passes over another it makes that one darker, would there be a way to fix that?

[@inDrinkabim]

No opacity

[@pelmainn]

Unbelievable

[@kin7433]

Can you do area triggers tutorial? Thanks

[@arandomperso4438]

This deserves more views than if xcreatergoal made a totorial on it

[@stefan_-yc4zs]

Can you do next a tutorial how to make a tiny flat platform which moves everwhere you want, it gets back from where you place it and repeats himself for infinitg? A tiny platform you place, it moves where you want to, it comes back and repeats himself for inifinity

[@ekzzy9054]

awesome

[@oxanis]

Can you make a tutorial for a spotlight effect?

[@MrArmpits]

Hi i have a problem and if anybody can address the issue it would really help! Currently when I go to use build helper it places the IDs at the same as the first shadow, even after correcting effects. Any ideas/solutions

[@gaimnbro9337]

barely a few days into 2.2 BARELY. I don't even know what will happen when we're into 2.3

[@GLUBSCHI]

Pretty much any 2d game with only 6 different controls can now be remade in gd i'm pretty sure

[@leafar08]

We got ray tracing now in GD 🔥🔥🔥

[@flocon9388]

Ok I will do that for the cave zone in my level

[@mioszantas4462]

Could you make only what you choose invisible behind it?

[@kollyr5524]

I need to use this in a level

[@hashafasha]

You should make it so objects in the shadow would be invisible

[@inDrinkabim]

Mhh, interesting. This might be actually pretty hard

[@_mat4537]

This is crazy

[@rafaelramongene4047]

Tutorial more pliss :DD

[@inDrinkabim]

Gonna do that ;)

[@choripanxd577]

AMOGNUS REFERENCE 🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣

[@LilyTheCuteKitty432]

How does the light illuminate the background in the first example?

[@inDrinkabim]

Glow objects set to blending and lens shader set to follow p1

[@LousyBook01]

plz make a tutorial on how to make a group animatuion where all objects move seperately using keyframes

[@dev_mrfab]

is there a way to use this with the auto build feature?

[@ramboPL]

hey inDrin, do you know what to do in this situation? in the platformer level I have normal music at the beginning, and then when I go to the bossfight room I put a different one, but all the triggers such as move or shader are activated much too early. Even if I haven't entered the bossfight room, I don't know what to do, I tried turn all these triggers on and off with the toggle trigger, but when it was turned on, the green line from the music is already far away, what should I do?

[@inDrinkabim]

Spawn all triggers by one Spawn Trigger that is set to Touch trigger

[@CurtaGD]

U can actually make a cool shadow gradient by setting the base color to black and setting the detail to copy that black, but with 0 opacity.

[@inDrinkabim]

Nah the problem is that you have to align the vertices in the correct way of how the gradient “flows”. If you do that then its not a circular gradient, but a square gradient. This alone doesn't look to bad but the gradient will be stretched very far and than you barely see the gradient. But yeah, if you make the “moveDist” smaller you might achieve a desired look.

[@CurtaGD]

The best I figured out for "moveDist" is 50. Nice, short shadow that fades out better than the black blending.

[@CurtaGD]

You can also rotate the gradient triggers.

[@inDrinkabim]

@@CurtaGD this is actually pretty good

[@inDrinkabim]

@@CurtaGD but i still don't like that you get these edges in the shadow and the movement feels unsmooth with moveDist set to 50. However, well done 👍

[@StrikeEagIe]

Woww how did you manage to do this?

[@Clubstepper]

DAAAMN

[@RudyZaballero-ul5kq]

Wow it is so co ngl

[@Quesorrallado3]

It's good to know nobody is saying "competition pirk"

[@dontsubtome2369]

I thought it was going to be a ray caster

[@solidturtle6910]

still waiting for a horror level

[@faqihawang236]

i can see someone making a top down game already

[@amatik4569]

top down mode in geometry dash 💀💀

[@nffp]

how about the isosceles triangle

[@SteelWheelSkybelieves]

How do you make the whole area dark in the first example?

[@inDrinkabim]

Lens circle shader

[@SteelWheelSkybelieves]

@@inDrinkabim thank you bro

[@hexoneya5992]

is there a way to quickly reproduce this effect for multiple structures without having to give each one its own vertex group because this breaks if all the vertexes use the same groups which is really inconvenient to make a whole level use this effect

[@inDrinkabim]

I know, it's tedious but there is no way this could work with only one group.

[@hexoneya5992]

i was thinking something more along the lines of somehow automatically regrouping everything in the correct way but i dont know if such an option is currently in the game, but if it is that would be very nice

[@inDrinkabim]

@@hexoneya5992 there is a button called build helper, this works

[@gn1l262]

Y'all r a smarthead

[@drrenwtfrick]

i am somewhat scared on what the community will do if THIS is made in 2 days Shocking

[@Shadowman626]

Yes I wanna know how to make amogus light!!

[@xd3athclawx554]

I wonder if the opposite of this is also possible maybe. Like having sunrays come out from a sun in the background and having them get blocked by stuff that's also in the background.

[@inDrinkabim]

I made a Spotlight, so yeah I think it's possible

[@inDrinkabim]

I'm working on a tutorial for Spotlights, If I can pull this off, it's going to be part of the video

[@inDrinkabim]

Actually, u just have to put the sun as Center ID instead of P1

[@xd3athclawx554]

@@inDrinkabim yeah, the only issue ive ran into so far is when you go inside the vertex area the gradient fills everywhere but in the vertex area. So you would have to fill in the vertex area with something to fix that unless there is another way with triggers i'm unaware of.

[@brendon24k23]

Wait...how would you do the spike's shadow since the gradient has four corners and a spike only as three?

[@inDrinkabim]

Use one vertex twice

[@brendon24k23]

I see. Thank you ^^@@inDrinkabim

[@nish3414]

Can you make a video with the torch effect? plz

[@inDrinkabim]

It's just the spotlight shader set to follow P1

[@melancia_10]

2025: Geometry Dash becomes a game engine.

[@NiffirgkcaJ]

When Geometry Dash got dynamic lighting before Minecraft. 💀

[@chako751]

2.2 just came out and we alr have among us lighting system

[@badpiggs]

"2.2 just dropped" actual zombie

[@Fspoke_]

next up: gd 2.2 but i added actual ray tracing

[@Willio20000]

0:59 lmao he hit edit object i feel like rob needs to do smth about that

[@inDrinkabim]

Yeah, It happened more than once 😅

[@rohoussamosc]

feels like roblox lua

[@mrball4148]

Dang bruh I just reverse engineered this effect from Galvetron’s new level last night. Now I see a vid on it bruhhhhhhh

[@LuckyWolfUnleashed]

The only thing that is annoying me is that objects in another object’s shadow are still visible. Btw, can you give us an id for the level and copy, please.

[@user-ir4zx9lq8s]

Can someone tell me what i did wrong it works fine until i get too close to the object, then the whole screen goes dark

[@inDrinkabim]

Thats how it should be

[@user-ir4zx9lq8s]

Wait I forgot to move the outer vertices to the edges of the object. I just left them a space away from the object

[@js64]

SPWN is now a complicated coding language

[@cursedpotato64]

Jesus some parts you're going so fast I can't see or read something important to follows the tutorial ! I'm about to finish it, so great video but jeez don't skip things so fast

[@1kayo]

Where can I add vertics

[@inDrinkabim]

Vertices are any object you want, I just used these dots

[@daiwannightberry1241]

Geometry Dash RTX

[@trbz_8745]

Now have it hide the shaded blocks 😎

[@inDrinkabim]

Yeah would be cool, might be complicated/ impossible, but never say never, there might be a solution one day

[@plastic-yt]

Where is vertices?

[@cmnog2167]

GD RTX coming soon 🤯.

[@inDrinkabim]

😂

[@Imbored_72]

Can you upload the lvl so we can just copy it, pls

[@inDrinkabim]

You'll find it in the description

[@Imbored_72]

Thanks!!!

[@NickStein_]

Now, GD is real game engine...

[@some_dude6]

How in the world is the geothermal dash community can make tutorials like these this fast after a milisecond of 2.2 dropping 💀

[@inDrinkabim]

😎

[@watermelonsenior]

please, make a bigger tutorial for spike shadows, please.

[@inDrinkabim]

Exactly the same except that you put the group of one Vertex twice in the gradient trigger

[@watermelonsenior]

​@@inDrinkabimnah im too stupid.

[@3k0o_x]

Bruh literally anything is possible with geometry dash now.