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how to create attacking effect in 3d games?

Started by ajeaje Dec 18, 2010 at 3:47 AM 2 replies 750+ views

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Dec 18, 2010 at 3:47 AM

Hello, I wonder how to do an effect for character attack in 3d games,

what I mean is something like effect that following character hands/foots when the character do an attack.

I suppose this is generated in runtime right? Is it using a plane (with texture and alpha map) following character hands and rendered only in attack time?

what is the effective method to do such an effect?

Buckeye

Dec 18, 2010 at 9:01 AM

If you mean something occurring at the location of the character's hands, that can (as you mention) be done with textured-alphablended triangles or quads.

It can be generated at "attack time" or you can create an appropriate vertexbuffer at program startup.

When required, locate the character's hand in world space, orient the world matrix for the vertexbuffer appropriately and render it.

ajeaje

Dec 18, 2010 at 9:28 AM

not necessarily in the exact hand location, it like a "trace effect" when we attack..
such as
http://media.curse.com/CommunityServer.Components.PostAttachments/00/00/46/94/74/Dragonica01.jpg-720x540.jpg

there is a trace (violet one) whenever the sword swinging,

how do they do that commonly?

Buckeye

Dec 18, 2010 at 9:36 AM

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locate the ~~character's hand~~ end of the sword in world space, orient the world matrix for the vertexbuffer appropriately and render it.

I would think it could also be done with a particle system.

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