How do I (properly) implement an Afterimage effect on C3?

Hi there C3 community!

Has anyone here ever implemented an Afterimage effects to a character? I'd like to learn how to do it on C3. I am aware that there was a popular Paster plugin in C2 days but i'd like not to resort to that, if possible.

Afterimages are trail of 'shadows' that follows a character while they are moving or usually doing an special attack, for instance. Like these examples below:

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Thanks in advance

The drawing canvas plugin included with c3 is similar to the paster plugin. Techniques used with paster should be relevant to the drawing canvas.

I just do it with sprites. If you don't need that many afterimages using a canvas seems overkill. Basically

Every 0.1 seconds spawn afterimage

Afterimage has the fade behavior

The afterimage can just be a copy of your player sprite with the same animation names so you can set the animations of the afterimage on created to playersprite.animationname

The drawing canvas plugin included with c3 is similar to the paster plugin. Techniques used with paster should be relevant to the drawing canvas.

Someone on the C3 discord group also mentioned the canvas feature. It seems it would work, I just need to study it a bit since I never used it.

I just do it with sprites. If you don't need that many afterimages using a canvas seems overkill. Basically

Every 0.1 seconds spawn afterimage

Afterimage has the fade behavior

The afterimage can just be a copy of your player sprite with the same animation names so you can set the animations of the afterimage on created to playersprite.animationname

I would like to have something scalable so I can use with other objects, such as enemies and projectiles. Duplicating every single object that would need this effect seems worse than using Canvas, as far as my knowledge goes currently.

Sure, if you want to use many objects you'd have to spawn a lot of afterimages. In that case canvas will probably perform better.