[tonline_kms65]

Hello everybody.
I want to create the effect of "the trail of tracer bullets", The same as in Half-Life2

How can I do that? Tell me please.

[tonline_kms65]

All ready, figured out and did.

Video

[8guawong]

so are you going to show us how its done?

[Neuro Toxin]

Originally Posted by rules - Do not blank out posts. Additionally, if you solve your problem post the solution for others to find.

If you post asking for help and resolve your own post, shate it for others.

[Mitchell]

I believe there is temp ents for when the energy weapons hits the ground, and muzzle flash where you can define your own material.
HL2 would use a 'tracer' material which would have a fast speed and repeating pattern (configured in the .vmt) Using this material with a correctly configured TE_SetupBeamPoints it can look like tracers from bullets.

[tonline_kms65]

This question is so interesting?
Approximate analogy with the plugin homingmissiles, author Blodia.
So not much to load the engine of the game, I went in a simple way:

1. Create 3D model ENT (trasser). My 3d model trasser, has the physical properties (phisbox, hitbox, animation, weight, gravity). My texture, alpha-channel, transparency..
2. Doing a trace to the point of sight.
3. Start created ENT (trasser), with a speed of 3000, the vector obtained tracking point.
4. At a distance of <= 70.0 end point to kill ENT (trasser).

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[tonline_kms65]

Originally Posted by Mitchell I believe there is temp ents for when the energy weapons hits the ground, and muzzle flash where you can define your own material. HL2 would use a 'tracer' material which would have a fast speed and repeating pattern (configured in the .vmt) Using this material with a correctly configured TE_SetupBeamPoints it can look like tracers from bullets.

I tried to do a texture animation. But it's not.

[andi67]

Than show your vmt.....

[tonline_kms65]

Here's an example of my animated texture (shear and frame-by-frame animation).
The result was not pleasant to me, I refused that option.

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[tonline_kms65]

Shift texture:

"UnlitGeneric"
{
	"$basetexture" "weapons/tracers/tracer_light_midle2"
	"$translucent" 1
        "$additive" 1
	"$nocull" 1
	"$selfillum" 1
        "envmapmask" "weapons/tracers/tracer_light_midle2_ref"


"Proxies" 
	{
	 "TextureScroll"
	{
	"texturescrollvar" "$basetexturetransform"
	"texturescrollrate" 10.0
	"texturescrollangle" 180
	} 
	}
}

Animated texture:

"UnlitGeneric"
{
        "$baseTexture" "anim/trasser/trasser"
	"$additive" 1
	"$nocull" 1
	"$translucent" 1
	"$selfillum" 1
 
        "Proxies" 
        { 
                "AnimatedTexture" 
                { 
                        "animatedTextureVar" "$basetexture" 
                        "animatedTextureFrameNumVar" "$frame" 
                        "animatedTextureFrameRate" "1" 
                }
        } 
}