TextureRegion and glowing tail effect

[desunit]

Hi,

I'm trying to implement a glowing tail for my TextureRegion and can't figure out how it could be done. Let's assume that I have TextureRegion with a circle, this circle is drawing from left side of the screen to the right side using SpriteBatch. I want to display glowing tail (the same like asteroid tail) which disappears after certain amount of time.

One of the idea which I have to draw TextureRegion with different amount of alpha - 0.1, 0.2, till 1.0 and increasing x value at the same time. Is there other better way for it?

[tescott]

Sounds like you might want to investigate Particle Effects.

http://www.badlogicgames.com/wordpress/?p=1255

--tim

[desunit]

Thanks for reply. I remember your DB42 game nice one! Did you use the same Particle System to display yellow beam:
https://lh5.ggpht.com/Mk2NBmspJogaTA76p ... LYbbzAeYkk

[tescott]

Exactly!

I released Pyromancer's Lab last week -- it is pretty much based around jacking around with Particle Effects and coming up with neat effects. Might give you insight on different things you can do. Check out my .sig for a link.

--tim