Dynamic Shadows in Geometry Dash 2.2 | Tutorial 

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

ALL IN 2 DAYS BRO ☠️☠️☠️

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

Rob really programmed an entire game engine for 2.2

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

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

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

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?

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

my god that is impressive stuff, amazing idea!

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

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

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

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

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

tysmc! I really needed a tutorial like this

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

I like this idea thanks man!

*_хороший туториал! Спасибо ;))_*

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

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

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

Nice thank you man!

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

THIS IS GENIUS

Great tutorial thank you

Thats gotta make for some dope transitions

Cool! :O

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

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

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

I really need it thanks

all praise the gradient trigger🛐🛐

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

We boutta recreate Among Us with this one 🔥🔥🔥

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

awesome

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

Can you do area triggers tutorial? Thanks

Unbelievable

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

Can you make a tutorial for a spotlight effect?

Possible to make blocks behind shadows invisible?

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

We about to have shaders in Geometry Dash

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

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

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

We got ray tracing now in GD 🔥🔥🔥

Could you make only what you choose invisible behind it?

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.

DAAAMN

I need to use this in a level

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

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?

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

This is crazy

Woww how did you manage to do this?

Tutorial more pliss :DD

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

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

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

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?

still waiting for a horror level

Wow it is so co ngl

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

how about the isosceles triangle

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

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

I thought it was going to be a ray caster

AMOGNUS REFERENCE 🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣

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

i can see someone making a top down game already

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.

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

Can you make a video with the torch effect? plz

Y'all r a smarthead

2025: Geometry Dash becomes a game engine.

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

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

Yes I wanna know how to make amogus light!!

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.

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

next up: gd 2.2 but i added actual ray tracing

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

When Geometry Dash got dynamic lighting before Minecraft. 💀

SPWN is now a complicated coding language

HOW IN THE HELL DO YOU GET VERTEXES BRO

"2.2 just dropped" actual zombie

Now have it hide the shaded blocks 😎

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

feels like roblox lua

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

Where can I add vertics

Now, GD is real game engine...

Geometry Dash RTX

GD RTX coming soon 🤯.

Bruh literally anything is possible with geometry dash now.

Robtop has added rtx into gd

Bruh, I tried to do that as I see it, tried to do that like you, step on step. And nothing. Gradients is working, but it all just comes down and dont moving on X axis Ok, i solved it: turned on "relative"