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Tribes 2 ELF graphical effect

by Ian Omroth Hardingham · in Torque Game Engine · 07/01/2006 (2:39 pm) · 4 replies

Hey guys.

I'm looking to get an effect a little bit like the ELF in Tribes 2:

www.omroth.com/elf.jpg
Can anyone shed any light?

Thanks,
Ian

#1
07/01/2006 (2:45 pm)
Looks like another little T2 effect that had to get ripped out when they got the engine. I'm guessing that stuff works by dynamically drawing a set of quads along a curve generated from the muzzle vector to the actual target. Which is totally beyond me as to how you code it. Only other way might be to fake it with a curved mesh that you rotated and scale based off the relative vector, but that's just about as complicated and probably not going to look as good.
#2
07/01/2006 (3:25 pm)
Stupid NDAs =)
#3
07/01/2006 (3:42 pm)
If you look carefuly, you might find some spline code in torque, which i think might even do some drawing.

*HMM*
#4
07/01/2006 (5:17 pm)
Doesn't Legends have something like that?