Screen Effect

[seniorjub]

I am looking to write a script that I can run which would flash/blur your screen while playing music for a set amount of time. I have no idea where to start, any suggestions would help.

[WhitePilot]

Draw a giant rectangle on the screen?

[rainbow-dash]

You can play a song by either doing

RunConsoleCommand('play', <song dir>)

or

surface.PlaySound( <song dir> )

After that, you would want to create timers to make the screen flash with the beat.

[lua]
flash_toggle = false

function flash()

flash_toggle = true

timer.Simple(0.1, function()
flash_toggle = false
end)

end

local function DoFlash()

local tab = {}
tab[ "$pp_colour_brightness" ] = 1
tab[ "$pp_colour_contrast" ] = 1
tab[ "$pp_colour_colour" ] = 1

if flash_toggle == true then
DrawColorModify( tab )
end

end
hook.Add( "RenderScreenspaceEffects", "Show a flash on the screen!", DoFlash )
[/lua]

I'm way too tired to check if that works, I wouldn't trust my tired coding but you get the idea.