Explspike - beyond-all-reason/springrts_engine_wiki_mirror GitHub Wiki

Introduction

Explspike basically makes rays of light, like sunlight leaking into a dusty room, but without the dust.

Source

Suggested Use

Explspike is good for making an explosion seem bright. It is good for situations where you want to suggest that a weapon is powerful without necessarily suggesting that it has a large area of effect.

Parameters

length

Starting length of the pike?

width

Width of the pike at the base.

alpha

The starting alpha of the pike.

alphaDecay

This is subtracted from the alpha every frame. If the alpha passes zero, the effect ends.

lengthGrowth

Not sure exactly what this does.

dir

The direction of the pike. The larger this vector, the faster the pike will grow.

color

The color of the pike.