I'm making a 2D shmup with XNA 4.0 and one of the weapons in the game that I want is a laser beam that follows a path or a series of points and will smoothly beam along the path.
How would I go about achieving this?
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Sign up to join this communityI'm making a 2D shmup with XNA 4.0 and one of the weapons in the game that I want is a laser beam that follows a path or a series of points and will smoothly beam along the path.
How would I go about achieving this?
Try using a Queue
of (x,y) coordinates. I don't know if you'll need to do it dynamically or at compile time, but you should be able to figure something out either way.
Are you wanting the laser to follow curves as well, or just connect the dots? If its the first option, you're gonna need to do some math too.