Natural movement of projectiles

[MichaelD]

Hello,

 

I wanted to ask if there is some way to produce a more natural way of projectile movement. 

 

I have: 

bullet.body.velocity.x = 950;

But it just moves fast from one place to another. To be clear I am not using a simple bullet I have the following which is supposed to be a "gust of wind".

 

The obvious answer is to create a sprite with more "variations" but I was wondering if there is a way to do this programatically. Thanks.

[titmael]

I bet on a sprite with variations because it'll have better performances and will be more beautiful. I guess changing the sprite's shape programatically will create aliasing effects on your sprite.

And your shape isn't very complicated, photoshop or gimp or paint.net will be simple to use

[d13]

bullet.body.velocity.x = 950;

This bit of code just move the sprite to another position.

Do you want to make the sprite appear as if it's moving?

[lukaMis]

Hello,

 

I wanted to ask if there is some way to produce a more natural way of projectile movement. 

 

Check this out for ideas:

http://gamemechanicexplorer.com/#homingmissiles-1

[MichaelD]

I suspect that the emitter might add some nice touch to the projectile, so my question is this (and I hope it doesn't derail much from the topic) how could I create an emitter that resembles the actual projectile maybe with a bit less opacity etc. 

 

Thanks for your help!