Best way to render bullet tracers?

[Ronin]

@Albertos

With the code, bulletTrail becomes a clone of this.bulletTrail. Because we want to use the clone, we need to use bulletTrail and not this.bulletTrail.

I changed it but i haven’t observed any changes so far

@Albertos

If I translate my code to your project, the enemy will be your raycast end and the player will be your raycast start.

If i do that will the bullet traces visible when i just shoot the air or will they be visible only when i hit the enemy?

@Albertos

Even if I misunderstand the goal of the user, my answer gives an alternative for the problems the users described: “I’ve tried the DrawLine function to render tracers, but it only lasts for one frame, and is extremely thin”. The start and end point of the line can basically be everything, so if you want to create only a short line to create a “bullet tracer” that’s possible.

I don’t object to your alternative, i’m objecting to your statement that my problem is irrelevant with the subject of this topic. I’ll try to realize the Yaustar’s suggestion to make the bulletTrace move from the source to destination in a certain time, not instantly. If i can’t manage to do it, i’ll try your method. But in most of the Unity tutorials i watched, they do it that way. You can watch this video

Hitscan Guns with Bullet Tracers | Raycast Shooting Unity Tutorial

@Albertos

So what are you trying to achieve at the moment?

I’m trying to make the bullet traces visible as they’re fired from the gun like in most FPS games as i have stated before. As to why i refer to this topic; i created another topic for this issue:

Bullet trail effect

Hello. I’m trying to add a bullet trail/tracing effect to my FPS game project. After asking around in the Play Canvas official discord channel, i learned that there’s an easy way to do this. I was told to add a cone entity in the scene then instantiate that cone and move&scale it along the raycasting line(start point-end point). This process will run inside the function below: Gun.prototype.shoot = function (screenPosition) { this.isReloading = false; if (this.currentAmmo == 0) { …

I was given an example project that shows how to render a line on runtime. I coulnd’t figure out how to implement that script to my project, it was too complicated for me. After doing some more research on google, i found this topic and this was the closest thing i could find that could help me