Lasers?

The title says it all

I want a sprite to act like a laser beam, where it continues as a beam until it hits a solid.

I also want it to be animated and not look stretched.

You'll need 3 parts to your laser, an origin sprite, a destination sprite, and a tiled background for the variable length of the laser. The origin and destination sprites should cover the "cut" ends of the tiled background.

Unfortunately, tiled background cannot be animated, so you'll need to stack a separate tiled background object for each frame of your animation, and reveal/hide them in sequence.

With two tiledbackgrounds you can make it look like it's animated, or at least moving forward.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/cm27xvzisnoxe ... .capx?dl=1

It really depends on the game style and what kind of animation you have in mind.

I guess you can create a long animated sprite and mask it with blend modes. (to make it shorter)

In one of my projects I used particles to add glow/steam effect to the laser ray:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/5hcn1849gw5s8 ... .capx?dl=0

With two tiledbackgrounds you can make it look like it's animated, or at least moving forward.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/cm27xvzisnoxe ... .capx?dl=1

Hi how do I set laser length to Mouse.x mouse.y if not overlapping wall?

I tried modifying but the result is no laser is shown

> With two tiledbackgrounds you can make it look like it's animated, or at least moving forward.

> https://www.dropbox.com/s/cm27xvzisnoxe ... .capx?dl=1

>

Hi how do I set laser length to Mouse.x mouse.y if not overlapping wall?

I tried modifying but the result is no laser is shown

Hmmm... I just thought of a solution involving 2 laser beams. Yours and another always set to a default length. Whether or not beam 1 is colliding with a solid will determine which beam will be used. Sounds good to me!

> With two tiledbackgrounds you can make it look like it's animated, or at least moving forward.

> https://www.dropbox.com/s/cm27xvzisnoxe ... .capx?dl=1

>

Hi how do I set laser length to Mouse.x mouse.y if not overlapping wall?

I tried modifying but the result is no laser is shown

Event 3: Change Set Width action to min(Self.Width+5,distance(cannon.X,cannon.Y,Mouse.X,Mouse.Y)), rather than Self.Width+5

Event 3: Change Set Width action to min(Self.Width+5,distance(cannon.X,cannon.Y,Mouse.X,Mouse.Y)), rather than Self.Width+5

Thanks. I was gonna add 2 more events but didn't know you could simply clamp it like that