2d light beam

Hello,

I want to accomplish a typical 2D light beam:

<img src="http://s1.directupload.net/images/121228/usocpgbr.png" border="0" />

I want to move the light beam when the game progresses, so I want it to be 1 "solid" (not behavior) object. I could accomplish this with about 13 round sprites of this example:

scirra.com/arcade/addicting-example-games/16/html5-lighting

But when I try to move the object type Light, which contains all of these round sprites. It move all instances to the same exact position, but I want to keep the form of the lightbeam as it is.

Can someone help me to move the whole object type or tell me a better way to create a 2d light beam?

thanks!

Post a .capx

Here:

Lightbeam.capx

As you can see, it sets the position of all instances to the X and Y value. I want to move the object type as a whole, so the form of the light beam stays as it is.

If you are going to continue with this grouping, you have to move all LIGHT objects relative to their initial position.

Try: Set X to self.X-25 and Set Y to self.Y-20

This works, but I want to set the light beam underneath another object like in the picture of my first post.

So what to use instead of:

<img src="http://s14.directupload.net/images/121228/endhz22z.png" border="0" />

thanks for your help!

The easiest thing would be to build up what you did in C2 in a graphics editor and make one sprite. Otherwise, you are stuck doing a bunch of math to move the group around relative to each other and the scene.

Yeah, but I am not an artist and I can not accomplish this bloomy light graphic.

Pin the beams to another sprite and move that. lightbeam2 (r114)

Thanks, it works great. So simple, I need to get used to to the simple creation of games after I tortured myself through the 3D game development <img src="smileys/smiley1.gif" border="0" align="middle" />