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I am working on a laser gun/railgun, and I need help with some glow effects. I want a solid green beam to follow the projectile and stay in the air for a few seconds before disappearing. Right now, the effect looks like this:

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How can I make the trail a solid line instead of a dotted one? Here is a link to the mod: http://www.sendspace.com/file/idrd5x


I didn't know wether this belonged in mod making or requests, so I hope this is the right place.


Fri Nov 27, 2009 4:49 am
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There is no simple .ini code way to do it without an obscene amount of particles or an obscenely slow projectile. However, I am sure that the maker of the smoke trail thing from the District 9 mod will be more than happy to let you edit his code. You will, however, have to get someone to explain it to you.


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This what you're looking for? It requires a bit of Lua, but is fairly simple to customize.


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I dont know about you but, p3lb0x made a decent laser trail for his matilda revolver, which i ripped for my own use, (credits to p3lbox)

you can find it HERE

p3lb0x's matilda revolver gif:
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Me stealing it xD:
[img]CUT%20OUT%20TO%20AVOID%20FLAMING%20xD[/img]


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Mon Nov 30, 2009 2:34 am
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You have 3 seconds to live before I kill you for besmirching the holy visiage that is the Matilda Laser Revolver.


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Gah, i gave him credits, however upon p3lb0x's request
i will remove me energy gatling and ion sniper from X2 technologies.


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Hyper's point was that your version looks... sucky. To use a mild expression.


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Well, the sprite is crap but whatever, doesnt matter.

what you want to do OP is basically store the last position it was in, and use that to draw a line of particles to where it is now.
something like
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--NOT GUARANTEED TO WORK TYPED LATE AT NIGHT FROM NOTHING
function Create(self)
self.oldpos = self.Pos --set the old position
end

function Update(self)
self.numberofdivisions = math.random(4,6) --some randomness never hurt.
for i = 1, self.numberofdivisions do
local particle = CreateMOPixel("<PIXEL PRESETNAME HERE>", "<RTENAME>.rte")
particle.Pos = self.Pos - (SceneMan:ShortestDistance(self.Pos,self.oldpos,true) * (i/ (self.numberofdivisions + 1)))
--the above should position a mopixel (which i assume you're using) a fraction of the distance the particle has traveled.
particle.Vel = self.Vel * (math.random(8,12) / 10) --more random, this time velocity
MovableMan:AddParticle(particle)
end
self.oldpos = self.Pos --set the old position again, at the end of the function so it works for next time, but doesnt ♥♥♥♥ it up now
end
Should work, used a simmilar method for naxx's acid thing's trails. have a play around with it.


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o.0, you mean sprite or glow used, (sprite sucks i know :roll: )


Mon Nov 30, 2009 7:25 pm
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Sprite. Way too blocky and too much contrast for anything but a NES sprite that ABSOLUTELY NEEDED TO HAVE TWO COLOUR ZONES.
Glow was okay.
OP's Sprite is pretty bad too upon reflection, too much gradient. Have a look at the vanilla weapons and how they do lighting for ways to make it better looking, OP.


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Kay, I used the script and it gave me the same results as the .ini coding I had before. (a dotted line) Is there anyway to make the glows closer together?

As for the sprite, thats just a placeholder.


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i ♥♥♥♥ a few things up, most likely.

looking at it it doesnt seem like it though, does the console throw any errors. i can't be sure without running it and saying "oh god im an idiot fix this huge problem" but it looks okay from here.


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Nope, no errors. Here's the mod again with the script included this time.


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Thu Dec 03, 2009 10:38 pm
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I'll look at it at some point this weekend or next week, going out tonight and today.


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Sooooo.... any ideas?


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