how to make ribbon trail effect?

#21 Just a heads-up, just pushed an update with a memory-address fix which fixes the "everything is nyan cat!" issue.

#22 RIP Nyan Cat, but well done chaps! :)

#23 NOOOO! I was just about to port my Nyan Cat game to T3D!

#24 Now with a texture:

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#25
With Nyan Cat gone, ribbon data can match their projectile colours.

#26 @Richard don't give up just yet

#27 I'm a little bit confused as to why there are shaders and all sorts of complexity involved to achieve this effect? Not long ago, I made some custom laser projectiles, and all I had to do to have a 'tail' on them was add a particle emitter in the projectile datablock. Couldn't the same be achieved with a sword or any other object? I'm probably just not understanding the desired effect I guess..

#28 @Lukas - rofl, that's terrific! My daughter will be duly impressed.

EDIT - my daughter was indeed impressed, and amused! Now I have to model Nyan Cat in Blender....

@Jesse - I can see where it would add tons of customization via simple sliders and checkboxes, and offloading more work to the GPU is a plus. "More bang for the buck." Hell, even "stock" materials use generated shaders....

#29 particles are harder on the CPU than ribbons. That is why I originally wrote the ribbon code, we were getting too low FPS in our mech game with so many projectiles flying around with particle effects on them.

#30 I think that Nyan tail is a great example of something you couldn't do with particles, correct? Or at least, it would be difficult to do.

Also, it's fantastic.

#31 Makes sense, in that case I might do a bit of testing with my lasers. Thanks!

#32 @Richard haha I thougt you'd like that! Actually I used the Nyan shader for some new Ribbon features. (On the repo btw)

Here is my Nyan cat Ribbon for those interested :P :

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#33 Lukas, issue with the updated code when using a clean compile for Release with player (no tools), shipping, max1500 flags set. Reverting back to Tim's original code (with t3D/fx/ribbons.h and staticshapeObjectType fixes) and everything is nice again.

#34 @Steve:

Can you share your method for attaching to projectiles?

#35 Gibby, just it's just > projectile.mountObject(ribbon_emitter, 0); < when the projectile is created in onFire and before it's returned obviously ;)

#36 @Steve:

Doh! Should've figured that one out - Gracias!

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#38 Tim-MGT's optimization code. I've not tried it, but I think TRON said it works fine.
pastebin.com/vs8W9XDU

#39 @Steve, just pushed those optimizations to my ribbon-repo if you don't feel like adding them yourself :P

#40 Nice LukasPJ, thought I was actually gonna have to do some work myself for a moment. ;)