Charge effects, Beam effects .. question

Hi

Just out of curiousity...

Id like to know how the charge and beam attacks work..
I saw that for the beam attacks you're using sprites,
but for the Charging I saw some sort of model?

Ingame the beam attack look 3d though...
Whats the deal about this?
Is it all thanks to the coding? Are sprites wrapped around 3d geometry ?

Plz id like to know.

Hope someone could clear this up for me,
Tnx already

Groetjes,

b0k

They are just normal sprites!! Altho, there could be somethin in the code to make em look 3d, but Im not sure!!

its called useing mulitple sprites to make it apear 3d


so basicly the beams look like * from strieght on and each little line is a beam sprite

you're dutch right???I saw it of your groetjes...i'm dutch to...WELCOME TO THE FORUMS,,btw there are also some dutch team members(they are the berst of the team but don't say it to anyone else) like harSens!!

ahem... team members, like harSens and who else? hehe

Welcome to the forums!

Hi all , tnx Yea I'm Dutch n proud of it

I posted here cuz im interested in all the modeling stuff
and mod making. All the techniques

So hope to learn something by browsing the forums.

dutch ppl rule!!!


ow and the sprites, they just made 3 sprites in front of each other, then the beam, and then the same thing again

also u wanna learn? what can u already do? and what stuff u like to learn?

Well I am interested in all this stuff ..
What i can do? I can model ..
Following coarse multimedia in Rotterdam at the GLR


What i want to do is model some dBZ inspired models..
Lowpoly ,, And also want to do some animation
and cool effects .. for practise ..

When I saw the energy beams n stuff ,, I asked myself
if I could accomplish such an effect in 3ds max without
Making ( geometry ) or dealing with videopost ..

I know its done using the halflife engine ..
Thats why I asked about the sprites. .
Still dont get how its done exactly..
But you guys gave me some nice info

A dutch ppl!! Anyway goodluck with modeling!