sword trails

I made a code that creates a real time trail behind objects such as swords. Its free to use for anything you want.



http://mocosgames.com/sword.zip

man that's great! looks just as good as the "Ghost Trails" plugin for 3dsmax

Thanks Mocosgames, this is extremely useful! Looks great!

cartoon_baboon

Same here mocosgames, nice contribution !!
The effect looks oke but it's the effect itself that is important not the look, this can be changed or adapted via EP3

Cheers

Frazzle

Its not a particle effect, it uses a model. Just change the texture for trail.mdl if you want it to look different.

well well well, i and my friend were looking for this, very nice model deformation, and because it's a model, you can skin it to be waaaay different, good job

Yes we can really use this. Thank you very much. If we add this to our 3d beam sabers it will look great.

I ever wanted to make something like that, but had no idea hos to make it...thank you mocosgames, great contribution

awesome! i am going to try using it for a hammer weapon.

this is excactly what i've been looking for, but the link seems to be expired.
could you please upload it again?
thank you in advance

Try at http://www.coniserver.net/coni_users/web_users/pirvu/au/scripts/swordtrail.zip

noob question. i know how to use it with my weapon alone like the example, but how can i use it if i have a model and the model is a weapon? do the character using the weapon have to have a trail too, or can i just have the weapon use the code. i am not sure how to implement this for my use. can anyone help?

@sheefo: thank you very much! i'll surely use it

This is a really good contribution! Thank you!

I've got a very weird problem, vec_to_mesh in my current project doesn't work On any model, it works but it deforms it so strangely and not to the coordinates I specify...Does any have any idea?

same here david, the trail works nice, but it's not attached to the entity, it's halfway across the map.....

I figured out the problem. Instead of
trail1=ent_create("trail1mdl.mdl",my.pos,null);
use
trail1=ent_create("trail1mdl.mdl",nullvector,null);

Thank you so much Mocosgames! I was running my brain crazy trying to figure it out. Is it a realtive/absolute coordinate issue? How'd you figure it out? Thanks again!

I don't know if you can help me here, the moment the weapon the streak is attached to, when it passes x coordinate 3700 (approx) the streak disappears, if I go back it appears again...Would you happen to have any insight into this? Thanks

Edit: I tried this:

vec_set(trail1.x,my.x);
vec_for_vertex(trailpos2.x,my,1); // vertex # for top of blade
vec_for_vertex(trailpos1.x,my,2); // vertex # for bottom of blade
vec_sub(trailpos2.x,my.x);
vec_sub(trailpos1.x,my.x);

And it kind works, stops the model disappearing, but then the interpolation code you implemented doesn't quite work the same, doesn't look as good...