Laser beam weapon in game, how to make?

[bobofet]

I made a game and want to have a laser beam come out from some characters toward others but not sure how I should go about doing this. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks.

P.S.

The beam needs to start out as a point from direction character who shoots it and grow to the character shooting at and maybe a few sec after.

[danjo]

basic; it can still be done with a simple active with animation, and set to a direction/angle.
advanced; trigonometry will be your friend here.

[nivram]

Danjo is correct. If you give up there are examples on my website, but try not to give up too soon.

Marv

[N64Mario]

I would recommend one of these laser examples. For the laser itself, you don't need anything but a few fast loops, and a few objects. But you may need some other math work to make it rotate the way you need it to.

[bobofet]

Cool, thanks guys.

[ASD]

Nice example N64Mario!
However, the laser will be blinking during its overlapping with active object.
How to do prevent that?