How do I trail a moving ball?

Hi,

I have been trying to trail the path of a moving ball. Can anyone explain me how to do it, if its possible.

For example like in this game.

Thanks.

You could do it by having it drop particles that follow like a trail of smoke, fading and shrinking. But they may look like bubbles if it's moving fast, and they would have to be circles, as particles don't rotate.

That could also be done with a trail of sprites, but again, would look like a chain of balls, especially when fading.

You could also use a transparent background where nothing gets erased. You put a sprite with a color (or image) matching the background over the top of the sprite with the trails, the transparency draws over the old tails, fading them slightly, making the oldest completely faded away.

You can see the effects in my modded particle demo: https://www.scirra.com/tutorials/761/particle-demo-capx

Set ALL layers "transparent" property to transparent.

In the project properties, set "Clear Background" to "NO."

Here's an example capx: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/85412219/forumposts/FadeOutDemo.capx

(screenshot of the capx)

Thank you very much, that's perfect!

If you need a portion of the screen to no leave trails, you can put in a solid image background in that area hiding the trails in the transparent area.

Thank You