Hi, hope this is the right location to post this. I am working on a 2d android game with a light space shooter theme. I wanted my ship to have a turret the that tracks targets, rotates and fires a laser beam that is animated (maybe pulsing or with non uniform bulges issuing out of the turret and moving down towards the target).
Key parts of the problem. laser starts at 1 coordinate and terminates at another in 2d space and could be of arbitrary length (might be scaled if I decide to add zooming). Possible brute force solutions: 1) using rotation/transformation to manually draw a bitmap representing a segment of laser all along the required distance. (cycling the bitmap as required for animation) 2) Create a very large laser beam image (longer than I would need eg: 10px by 500px) and draw it at correct transformation. Looking at the BitmapShader and reading some of the SDK info about Paths, Paints etc it feels like there should be a better way to do this, but no examples I've found covers it. Any idea if there is a way to use a BitmapShader to paint using a canvas.drawLine or canvas.drawPath call to create this effect? Thanks in advance Mando -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
