Laser Tail

[Shin]

Done correctly meaning?

[LB]

Meaning you loop between the old position and the current postion to fill in the gaps.

[Shin]

Fastloop? Have an example?

[nivram]

There is a fastloop tutorial on the sidebar ---> under Tutorials.

Marv

[Hernan]

I can upload an example if you want.
The effect looks like this:
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[mobichan]

Shin:

Effects like that tail are usually done as a series of round sprites that are overlaid closely together. By scaling them down over time, it makes the tail come to a point at the end. What LB mentioned earlier is the most common way to do this. but you need to create the circular sprites fast enough for the speed of your object to fill in the gaps. This might sound redundant after all the other posts, but I didn't know if you understood the fact that the tail in most games is made of lots of individual objects.

Mobichan

[Shin]

I'd say it's more of a particle tail.

[Shin]

Yes, that. I would love to see that example.

[N64Mario]

I have something that gives an effect of a laser like trail when the object is moving around. Want to take a look at it?

http://www.sendspace.com/file/rk6piw

[Shin]

Sure. I'll look.