At 12:11 AM 10/1/2002 +0200, you wrote:
I've been discussing this with Thomas quite some time
now. While Thomas is certain it can be done with
Missiles (I'm not! :-)), the major problem with these
would be their color.
If you want to use the ball, the way you do it is to not do a solid
beam. Do a dashed line basically, so you are only doing one ball per
scanline. The dashed lines would not line up perfectly. You'd start the
left or the right side earlier than the opposite side. You'd have a slight
timing issue there because of the two lazy cannons, but I think it would
animate nicely, especially if the gap between the dashes got smaller as the
lines converged, as you'd have an extra hint of perspective that way (think
Babylon 5 Star Fury here). You might be able to get away with it if all 4
cannons fired in series so there is always a slight delay between each cannon.
If you do it in playfield it's going to be blocky and might be more
difficult to update in the kernel vs. the ball.
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