Beam Weapon Visuals - Travel time

[Nickizzy]

Bending beams sounds like it would be more difficult to calculate. You'd need some sort of rope physics or something to beams, instead of them just being a sprite.

Simple. Make beams a chain of small segments(length based on lag levels, more lag less segments), the starting segment goes forward and slowly curves towards the target, cloning it's self each time it moves. Clones slowly fade over 1 second.

Or is that literarily rope physics?

 

[Lecic]

Simple. Make beams a chain of small segments(length based on lag levels, more lag less segments), the starting segment goes forward and slowly curves towards the target, cloning it's self each time it moves. Clones slowly fade over 1 second.

Or is that literarily rope physics?

That's essentially rope physics, just with very large segments that fade out over time.

 

[NeonSturm]

Rope physics are about force waves that travel along the rope.

They can have different wavelengths and amplitudes but wavelength+amplitude may change due to friction and interference.
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Experiment:

1. You need a heavy rope because of air friction. As cross-section grows faster than diameter, bigger ropes are better.
   
2. Put one end at a door handle or fix it to the fence.
3. Swing the rope to produce "standing waves" with a wavelength of rope-length/2 or rope-length/3