Missile that leaves behind a crisp line where it flew

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   answer to crisp line missile question: 
just make a small white box sprite with fade behavior, give it around 85% opacity and if your bullet sprite with bullet behavior is on screen spawn the white sprite with fade behaviour at the bullet's X,Y co-ord ;) it works beautifully.

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LE5LO 701 Rep 1 7	Post Options Post Reply Quote LE5LO Report Post Quote Reply Topic: Missile that leaves behind a crisp line where it flew Posted: 26 Mar 2012 at 12:23pm
	answer to crisp line missile question: just make a small white box sprite with fade behavior, give it around 85% opacity and if your bullet sprite with bullet behavior is on screen spawn the white sprite with fade behaviour at the bullet's X,Y co-ord ;) it works beautifully.

LE5LO 701 Rep 1 7	Post Options Post Reply Quote LE5LO Report Post Quote Reply Posted: 26 Mar 2012 at 12:13pm
	I haven't tried this out yet, in theory though it should work, for a homing missile, you could insert a sprite with bullet and 8 direction behavior and have it rotate towards the moving object you want it to target. con 1: on mouse clicked con 2: 'crosshair' overlapping enemy > action1: spawn 'homing missile' at 'launcher' (X,Y,)0 action 2: rotate towards enemy let us know how you do ;)

tulamide 5,280 Rep 5 6 16	Post Options Post Reply Quote tulamide Report Post Quote Reply Posted: 19 Mar 2012 at 2:31pm
	If someone still needs an example .cap, my all-purpose tutorial/example game "Verve!" also shows how to do sprite-based trails. You can find it in the tutorial/example forum.


AarongamerX 3,395 Rep 2 14	Post Options Post Reply Quote AarongamerX Report Post Quote Reply Posted: 18 Mar 2012 at 6:37am
	beastly tutorial. I think i wanna use this for something.
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zyblade 2,221 Rep 1 5 12	Post Options Post Reply Quote zyblade Report Post Quote Reply Posted: 06 Jan 2012 at 12:31pm
	Just what Tulamide said... Strike911 Last Active 1 year and 6 months ago I think he won't reply in the next time. Edited by zyblade - 06 Jan 2012 at 12:31pm

TKO 252 Rep	Post Options Post Reply Quote TKO Report Post Quote Reply Posted: 06 Jan 2012 at 12:36am
	Strike did you say you made an object seeking missle? I am looking to make bullets project towards an object that is moving at different locations.

bizla 552 Rep 1 4	Post Options Post Reply Quote bizla Report Post Quote Reply Posted: 10 Dec 2011 at 2:55pm
	ah good point :L i didnt notice the dates

tulamide 5,280 Rep 5 6 16	Post Options Post Reply Quote tulamide Report Post Quote Reply Posted: 10 Dec 2011 at 2:28pm
	@bizla you ask on a thread that is more than two years old. Also, the one you adress to was last active 1 year and 5 months ago, according to his profile.

bizla 552 Rep 1 4	Post Options Post Reply Quote bizla Report Post Quote Reply Posted: 10 Dec 2011 at 1:26pm
	After about an hour or so of tweaking, everything is running perfectly! Now i can have multiple heat seeking missiles chaotically flying towards different enemies on screen, all with crazy light trails everywhere and it actually looks exactly how I wanted it to! <!-- s:D --><!-- s:D --> thanks guys.[/QUOTE] would you mind uploading the cap so i can have a quick look at how you done it as im a little stumped atm, and im wanting to do bassicly the same thing but with a trail of paint after my paintbrush sprite.

strike911 1,125 Rep 4 1	Post Options Post Reply Quote strike911 Report Post Quote Reply Posted: 08 Dec 2009 at 10:07pm
	Thanks so much guys. This thread was very very useful. I got the effect I wanted by using some of the techniques you guys mentioned. At first I thought I could just up and copy most of the events from DeadEye's cap. My laziness didn't pay off so well, it didn't work so smoothly, but it served as an excellent outline for how the basic set up should be. After about an hour or so of tweaking, everything is running perfectly! Now i can have multiple heat seeking missiles chaotically flying towards different enemies on screen, all with crazy light trails everywhere and it actually looks exactly how I wanted it to! thanks guys.