Distort With Ribbon Object?

Is there any documentation or examples for the Ribbon object that shows distorting a sprite around placed points/positions?

I have searched around and found no documentation for this object, i found a old example where a circle sprite follows the mouse in a trail but it disappears and i want the result to stay still rather than fading a way.

Basically what i am trying to do is like you see in the objects icon where it has a mesh then bends the sprite around points forming a path. Does anyone have any examples or information about how i could do this? thanks

Anyone?

I thought I had a ribbon example cap, but I don't sorry =/ I don't remember anyone using it past the examples either

I have seen 1 example i think by R0J0hound, the problem is that was to make a mouse trail effect and is not really useful for what i wanted to do.

It seems to be used with the sprite distort options so maybe it is just used as a helper for that. I can find no information about how to use this object anywhere though.

Using the other example I made as a base here is another example:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5426011/examples4/ribbonPath.cap made in Construct Classic r1

Thanks R0J0hound, this example is exactly what i wanted.

Hey, you would happen to have one with out the boxes, would you? Like something you can drag around. Like a trail.

Hey, you would happen to have one with out the boxes, would you? Like something you can drag around. Like a trail.

You mean this?

http://www.scirra.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=6703#p52743

Also

+ System: For "i" from 0 to 20
+ System: For "j" from 0 to 1
-> Sprite: Set absolute displacement at (LoopIndex("i"), LoopIndex("j")) to XYZ(Ribbon.DistortX(LoopIndex("i"), LoopIndex("j")), Ribbon.DistortY(LoopIndex("i"), LoopIndex("j")), 0) UV(0, 0) 100 % [/code:3eumo2rf]

Two loops in the same conditional, never even thought about that one.

I got it work while it' scrolling. Although, how would I get it to work with more than one object. Like, if I had five of the same object, how would I generate a ribbon for each of them?

http://www.mediafire.com/?fma7vba7yeh1mwx

Put "Ribbon" "ParticleSprite" and "RibbonTrail" into a container and the each ParticleSprite will have it's own trail.

Yeah, Rojo beat me to it.

Looks cool btw.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/666516/multitrails.cap

By the way, is this basically a "2D PolyTrail"? http://www.stonetrip.com/developer/wiki ... =PolyTrail

Yeah, I would say that ours is a pretty good representation.

Just without all the built in extras. Not sure about the texturemap, some fx might work, some might not.

Then again if you were to remove all the black from your sprites, you wouldn't need the additive fx anyway.