How to create animated ray ?

Hey guys need your advice. I need some kind of animated ray but it should be without fixed size by x. I need to expand and collapse it without quality loosing? Is it possible. Ideally i need animated tiled background

Rays and beams generally consist of separate origin, body, and target/hit parts. The body part is the part that tiles with a variable size. This can be done with sprite objects + tiled background for the body, or a 9patch (at least we can rotate 9patches now!).

Unfortunately, we have animations for neither tiled backgrounds nor 9 patches, so you'll either have to stack multiple of them and manually cycle through their visibility, or create and destroy them as you go to animate.

You might also consider layering effects/additional sprites atop the path of beam, which can be animated, with the beam itself being mostly static.

Here is a simple method:

dropbox.com/scl/fi/8shp2lz2xq4ch2mdfbtv4/AnimatedRay.c3p

Here is a simple method:

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/8shp2lz2xq4ch2mdfbtv4/AnimatedRay.c3p?rlkey=2f11y2psztvqps305yoi10zt1&st=e3f1agqk&dl=0

Wow, it's really smart. Thank you so much

Construct developers should think about tiled background animation, cause their competitors on the market have similar functionality. I saw on the forum that one guy already requested such functionality 12 years ago 😁

This is true. I also miss that essential feature in Construct 3.