Homebrew DS Screen Fade In/Out Effects

[JoeySyntax]

I've been attempting to experiment with adding a fade in/fade out effect to the screen whenever the game state is switched. I have attempted to implement this by using the NF_BG_BGEditPalColor(), and NF_BG_SetPalColor() functions respectively. It kind of works, but not the way that I would have hoped.

Does anyone have a good example of how to do this?

 

[Pk11]

If you just want to fade to black or white you can just use the screen brightness registers. libnds has the setBrightness() function for it, just do like:

// Fade to white
for(int i = 0; i <= 16; i++) {
    setBrightness(3, i);

    // Waiting just one frame would probably be a bit fast, can experiment with the timing
    swiWaitForVBlank();
    swiWaitForVBlank();
}

 

[JoeySyntax]

If you just want to fade to black or white you can just use the screen brightness registers. libnds has the setBrightness() function for it, just do like:

// Fade to white
for(int i = 0; i <= 16; i++) {
    setBrightness(3, i);

    // Waiting just one frame would probably be a bit fast, can experiment with the timing
    swiWaitForVBlank();
    swiWaitForVBlank();
}

Wouldn't that have an effect on the screen brightness if let's say the player changed the brightness setting in the DS Menu?

 

[Pk11]

Wouldn't that have an effect on the screen brightness if let's say the player changed the brightness setting in the DS Menu?

No, that's a different brightness. This simply refers to how black/white the screens are, not the actual backlight brightness.

 

[JoeySyntax]

No, that's a different brightness. This simply refers to how black/white the screens are, not the actual backlight brightness.

I see. I appreciate the help. It took me so long just to find out it all came down to a simple function.