[RESOLVED] How do you create this trail?

[pseudobot]

Hey fellow Flashers,
I was wondering how you can create a trail such as the one in Neuron (flash game). Pleas please please help me out here, I am completly stumped on how to create trails like this one.

Thanks in advance,
-Pseudobot

[ImprisonedPride]

Blurfilter + BitmapData + alpha ColorTransform.

[pseudobot]

Hey ImprisonedPride,
could you please elaborate a bit? The colorTransform confuses me a bit, since I have never used it before. And isn't the Flash blur filter too slow to use in realtime?

Sorry, I am not up to standards in Flash at the moment.

[ImprisonedPride]

ColorTransform is quite simple. Check this out: http://flash-reference.icod.de/flash...Transform.html

For what you want to do, just do something like var c:ColorTransform = new ColorTransform(1,1,1,.75);

What this will do is change the alpha value to 75% of what it was the previous frame which after a few cycles will look pretty close to that effect.

Blur would be too slow if you were blurring every object, so don't do that. Just use a single blur on the parent clip.

Also, I assumed you were using AS2 since you didn't specify but the code/theory is the same for AS3.

[pseudobot]

^Thanks so much IP!
I'll be reading up on the ColorTransforms right now.