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[cjy4312]

Hi,I'm making a honeycomb shield these days. now I had some trouble.

I'm using fighter wings with "setExtraAlphaMult" as shield blocks. when these blocks take any damage, They will glow.
(This way causes serious FPS loss when shield deploying on large(veeeeeery Large) ship, there is so many ships deployment tips)

I was trying to use BOMBs with SHIP CollisionClass instead of them,but  missile.getSpriteAPI().setAlphaMult(float) is notwork in combat(Maybe there's something wrong  I use this code.)
How does this code work?

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[Alex]

I think if you call missile.setTimeSinceFizzling() that should let you do it. The alpha of the sprite is set according to:

brightness = (flameoutTime- timeSinceFizzling) / fadeTime;
if (brightness > 1) brightness = 1;
if (brightness < 0) brightness = 0;

"fadeTime" is specified in the missile projectile file and defaults to 0.5. flameoutTime is also specified there and defaults to 4.

So if in your missile you had:
"fadeTime":1,
"flameoutTime":1,

Then:
missile.setTimeSinceFizzling(1) should set alpha to 0 (but it might also make the missile despawn, so would have to be careful)
missile.setTimeSinceFizzling(0) should set alpha to 1

Etc.

[cjy4312]

Then:
missile.setTimeSinceFizzling(1) should set alpha to 0 (but it might also make the missile despawn, so would have to be careful)
missile.setTimeSinceFizzling(0) should set alpha to 1

Etc.

  Thank you very much!

[Alex]

Hope it works, I haven't tried it

[cjy4312]

Hope it works, I haven't tried it

Unfortunately, it's not work on missiles.
but no problem,  I can spawn a *normal* projectile when I need glow effect