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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
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Torque Owner Paul /*Wedge*/ DElia
#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.

Torque 3D Owner Jesse Liles
#2
07/01/2006 (3:25 pm)
Stupid NDAs =)

Associate James Urquhart
#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*

Torque 3D Owner Eric Forhan
#4
07/01/2006 (5:17 pm)
Doesn't Legends have something like that?