How To Add Weapon Trails To Your Attacks! | Dreams Tutorial

I show you an extremely easy way to add good looking weapon trails to your attacks! The technique uses strokes set to animate in sequence, with jet trail on.
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[@TAPgiles]

Ah, cool... I discovered this also, while working on a project for someone. I did it slightly differently though which is a tad cheaper. Instead of a ton of flecks, I used 2 flecks--one for the start one for the end. Works exactly the same but only has 2 iterations going at once. Then I turned on duplicates :D Cool thing about duplicates is, you can easily make the flecks appear along a line if you want to--eg. the ege of the sword. ;p Right now, the jet trail is going all the time, which isn't ideal. I would turn off the paint, and turn it on with the keyframe--has the same effect as animating opacity, but while the trail isn't shown it's not powered so it'll use no processing power.

[@dylanblue9201]

I was wondering how this was done, I feel like a sword trail effect makes attack animations look so much better.

[@Funcestor]

I would have never thought of that. Really easy to implement and the result looks great! Thanks a bunch for the video :D

[@AecertGaming]

Ikr! You are very welcome :)

[@Maxawesome101]

Wow... a great addition for my game AND it's super simple ahahaha

[@themythrighthere9412]

I NEEEEEED THIS

[@no_1_knoz]

This is simple AF! U got my vote 🗳(hint hint)!

[@sarcasticfish1782]

I'm making an action cartoony style game and it's really helped thank you

[@spleenbeachboy1]

Awesome technique, really helps finish off my attack animations

[@nichegames9590]

Sweet! I was going to look that up eventually. Saved me the time bro!

[@supergodblue2392]

Just what I was looking for

[@KidouKenshi22]

Thanks dude you are lifesaver! Been looking for it

[@AecertGaming]

So glad you found it :)

[@smilebasic357]

This is awesome man! I was stumped on making smooth trails for so long now. I'm gonna use this great technique for sure!

[@collin2401]

Thank you so much!!

[@sleebyrose]

thanks you!!

[@mitchellty]

ITS OVER 9000

[@AecertGaming]

:D

[@Luhtoonymusic]

Yes

[@mitchellty]

Thank you Aecert

[@mitchellty]

And it's a simple solution too

[@lampazzu]

Cool vid man!

[@Luhtoonymusic]

Thank you so much

[@Denjo92]

2 blank keyframes? What a waste. Why not use the blend of the one keyframe? Other than that cool trick, didn't know that yet. Thanks

[@AecertGaming]

Crappp that's a good point

[@Enn3rdAnimates]

Epic : D

[@aidenanderson6436]

noice

[@kluthausen9878]

I've been trying similar methods to get the effect of a lightsaber swing but never was able to achieve it. Do you have any ideas?

[@AecertGaming]

Do exactly what i do in this tutorial, but use one of the longer flecks and scale it up to be the length of the lightsaber

[@kluthausen9878]

@@AecertGaming I tried but it didn't work out as intended

[@AecertGaming]

@@kluthausen9878 What happened?

[@kluthausen9878]

@@AecertGaming it followed the first fleck but very slow, I don't know how to explane it differently (also tried to set the animationspeed to maximum but still didn't look good

[@AecertGaming]

@@kluthausen9878 hmmm. Make sure you do exactly what i do in the tutorial. There is a bunch of stuff that could've gone wrong

[@jamespennington6428]

Can you use this for people trials?

[@AecertGaming]

If you need any sort of trail at all, you can use this!