[SF-Junky]

Greetings,

in Storm Front Episode 3 the Borg are about to assimilate the GTVA. Of course, they're bringing in their deadly tractor beams, seen here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8pQm3h2opc#t=2m41s

Now to show this, I need a beam that becomes wider the farer away it is from its firing points. I have some good textures, but this would require tabeling. The tables, again, don't provide any feature to make this work, at least none I can see. Do I miss something again? Any suggestions?

[Shivan Hunter]

+Tile Factor:

Defines the beam texture tiling factor. Second number defines the tiling type. Type 0 tiles the graphic in the beam as many times as defined by the 1st number. Type 1 uses the 1st value as the lenght[sic] of the tile.

Syntax: Float, Integer

So... Type 0 with 1 tile from source to target, and an [animated] image that looks like it comes from a point and fans out (like those thruster thingies)?

[EDIT] This would scale with distance and might look weird in some situations, like if two tractor beams are targeting two ships at very different distances. Probably would still work though

[SF-Junky]

Yes, that is how I made it work more or less. Looks pretty cool.

Just bad that electronics, leech and emp doesn't work with beams.