i need to make a tail/trail/following thing

[987456321]

in other words... asteroids have that "tail" behind them thats what i need.
in different words... i have a shape ( circle) and i am going to make a game but i need it to have a thing that shows where it was for the past 3 seconds. does anybody know a script or something that could make this happen?

[Draxus]

No code, but you could just create a small trail particle movieclip/sprite at the asteroids location every frame, and set it to slowly alpha down over a few seconds and then destroy it when it hits 0 alpha. I'm assuming you don't need the trail particles to have momentum or anything, just appear as part of a path that the asteroid is laying down.

[987456321]

well i was kinda hoping of some code or something more in-depth (im a new programmer) also the "asteroid" will be following the x and y position of the mouse so that might make it harder

[zompo]

Are you using actionscript 2 or 3?

[987456321]

Originally Posted by zompo

Are you using actionscript 2 or 3?

as2 so ya 2

[zompo]

okej, then just make a a movieclip whit a circle or something that fades out, make it so the fade last for about 3 sec, at the end of that movieclip add this.removeMovieClip(); and add it to the library with name "tail". then in your enterframe loop attach the movieclip "tail" with option {_x: _root._xmouse, _y: _root._ymouse } or {_x: astroid._x, _y: astroid._y}

[987456321]

i have no idea what that means ...well a bit but not really (i am New to programming)

[zompo]

Ok, do you got any code atm, like tha asteroid following the mouse? or do you need code for both that and the asteroid tail?

If you got code then post it here and you might get some more help

[EightySeven]

Trail's I've found to be more processor/calculator intensive.

What I would do isI only know AS3)

1) make a movie clip of a small portion of the trial
2) have an on enter frame function that tracks the players(or asteroids) past and present position
3) have a timed function(I know in AS3 its possible donno about 2) that puts a new segment of the trail on screen. from the player(objects) privious positino to its present position.

No In this I've always used simple vectors so i could scale them if the player was moving REALLY fast, another solution might be to reduce the timed function to make it tick faster.

For asteroids I would just do a particle effect generator ontop/beneath the asteroid image.

so just an image of a piece of debris that is randomly scaled/rotated/directed behind the asteroid

[987456321]

right now i dont have the asteroid to follow the mouse but would it help if i did... would it be easier if the asteroid was only a red square and i needed the copies of itself to follow it buy get smaller and alpha away (i dont know what that means but apparently its something with it disappearing)