How can I create glowing lines with TGB? (example inside)

#21

Quote:is there still no easy way to draw a simple line from XY to X2Y2 without the pro version?

i don't use TGB, but couldn't you make a small little square sprite like 4x4 pixels and then stretch it to the right width and then position & rotate it ?

#22 Hmmm... I thought there was a way to draw primitives? t2dShapeVector maybe?

#23 Was removed when I remember correctly (haven't checked if 1.5 reimplements it)

#24 t2dShapeVector is indeed still alive and kicking in 1.5.

#25 @Marc:

It was removed from the TGB, that's true, but it's still in the engine. :-)

#26 Ok, let me put my 5 cents into this problem :)

You can make a simple function that will draw a line using a small blurred dot sprites. You can draw it on texture (i.e. on a sprite) and then render the whole sprite at once.

#27 Here's a resource to draw primitives with TGB. Of course, you need the pro version to add it. You can draw different shapes with transparent gradient colors as well.

http://www.garagegames.com/index.php?sec=mg&mod=resource&page=view&qid=9414

#28 I did some looking into drawing a glowing line myself, and I can see two ways to do it:

1) Draw a piece of the line in your image editor, but in TGB you can then size the image to scale it to make it look like a line (as well as use setRotation to set the rotation of it).

(above is for use with a t2dStaticSprite)

2) Could also try playing with a t2dChunkedSprite and repeating the image as well.