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Making a bullet trail
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It'll be activated through triggers, so really anything.
I'm just trying to make a bullet trail that will:
- Go from point a to point b (and be able to be moved at the bullet won't be instant hitting, I'll need to draw the trail from its starting point to wherever the bullet is now)
- Fade like the trail in halo
- OPTIONAL - Sort of dissipate and distort like the trail in halo (instead of staying perfectly straight)
For example, I was thinking of doing this with a custom model that's a plane of size 1x1 with all of it to one side of the origin so I'd just scale it and set the rotation, but I can't do that because warcraft 3 decided to make it so you HAVE to scale uniformly, despite the fact that there are separate controls for scaleX, scaleY, and scaleZ, everything just usese scaleX.
I'm just trying to make a bullet trail that will:
- Go from point a to point b (and be able to be moved at the bullet won't be instant hitting, I'll need to draw the trail from its starting point to wherever the bullet is now)
- Fade like the trail in halo
- OPTIONAL - Sort of dissipate and distort like the trail in halo (instead of staying perfectly straight)
For example, I was thinking of doing this with a custom model that's a plane of size 1x1 with all of it to one side of the origin so I'd just scale it and set the rotation, but I can't do that because warcraft 3 decided to make it so you HAVE to scale uniformly, despite the fact that there are separate controls for scaleX, scaleY, and scaleZ, everything just usese scaleX.
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Use a Ribbon effect and make it move very very fast from point A to B, that should leave behind a smooth trail. Lightning Effects get stretched and distorted over long distances, and as you say, models get crappy scaling.
As such, use a blank model with just a thin ribbon and make it move.
An example of such effect is in the Water Elemental Projectile. There's a particle effect on the head of the missile, followed by a ribbon placed behind it to give that "trail of water" type effect.
As such, use a blank model with just a thin ribbon and make it move.
An example of such effect is in the Water Elemental Projectile. There's a particle effect on the head of the missile, followed by a ribbon placed behind it to give that "trail of water" type effect.
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