How to visualize beautiful RailGun's shot

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RailGun made as hitscan weapon. So, it makes raycast, and then need to draw a shot. I can add Line2D but how to make it beautiful. I want that player can feel that it is very fast bullet, not just line (as laser for i.e.) I need some visual effects for it

So, how can I draw beatiful line that will look like a shot of RailGun.

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I need some visual effects for it

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dg0CQ6NPDn8

That's exactly what particle systems are for, visual effects. Place it on the tip of the gun or the start of the raycast, and use it's target location as a direction to rotate the particles using the function look_at().

As a warning, don't edit directly by code the Particle processing material, because it's a shared resource, similarly to shaders, changing one will change every instanced copy of that particle.

https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/tutorials/2d/particle_systems_2d.html

For your laser texture to be pretty, you can simply use a nine patch rect, which is a control type that can basically stretch textures using a repetition pattern.

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but will that work for 3D? He's making an fps.

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I assumed 2D because he mentioned Line2D, but with 3D things aren't so different, in fact you have more options because you're in 3D.

  • use sprite textures as muzzleflash which is a old technique, if combined with shaders it looks reasonable good.
  • Simulate 3D particles to make gunshot effects, can be done with sprite texture particles for example.
  • Create a 3D mesh of the muzzeflash of the gun and apply volumetric materials or simple bloom-like shaders.
  • Play videofootage of vfx (video special effects) assets as a sprite texture, but require extra work to make it look good in 3D.

There are many techniques one can use to make beautiful vfx effects, I would recommend to watch how other games do it. Simple pause a gameplay video on youtube for example, and you can study the effects by moving frame by frame, the effects look complex during gameplay but actually are really simple.

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do you know any good tutorials on godot 3d particles? I can't figure them out.

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