I made an explosion.......using only beams and instance.news()

xipped · December 31, 2021, 1:40pm

Just like the title said made a nuke out of beams without cloning anything. Works perfectly fine and the outcome was better than i anticipated.

regexman · December 31, 2021, 1:41pm

Planning to open-source it or not?

sworded333 · December 31, 2021, 2:06pm

Wow that looks cool. Is it better for performance to instance.new new beams or just clone?

heisIlan · December 31, 2021, 2:10pm

Looks really good!

I myself thought that the only “good” explosions visuals would usually just be ParticleEmitters or a big mesh, but that proves me wrong.

Keep up the good work!

xipped · December 31, 2021, 3:24pm

way better for performance actually

xipped · December 31, 2021, 3:25pm

will do one day, but first i’ll make a community tutorial on it

trueblockhead101 · December 31, 2021, 5:25pm

Did you uses beams for the shockwave? If so how did you do it?

xipped · December 31, 2021, 5:37pm

Well since its gonna take me a while explaining, I rather to show you the code.

made a part, formed attachments in a circle and connect each attachment with beams, I set the beams properties and then use a loop tween and some math equations to give it a boom effect and a slight arc over the mushroom cloud.

trueblockhead101 · December 31, 2021, 5:39pm

Dang. So basically just make a bunch of attachments in a circle and then give them body velocity plus beams

xipped · December 31, 2021, 5:41pm

well not body velocity, but i used a bit of math and lerping to move them

trueblockhead101 · December 31, 2021, 5:42pm

I have no idea what lerping is lol. Ive heard of it but I dont know what that is.

But I could probably still use body velocity right?

xipped · December 31, 2021, 5:44pm

nope, attachments arent affected by bodymovers, only baseparts

trueblockhead101 · December 31, 2021, 5:44pm

Oh then I could probably use transparent parts in that case?

Or maybe tween them or something

xipped · December 31, 2021, 5:45pm

You can definitely tween the attachments

trueblockhead101 · December 31, 2021, 5:45pm

ok good to know. Thanks

xipped · December 31, 2021, 5:45pm

but in the video you see all those attachments are in a single part, so moving that single part with a body mover will move the enter cloud/ring

LiteGGaming1 · December 31, 2021, 5:50pm

Looks epic. I like the detail, very good job.

Katrist · December 31, 2021, 5:55pm

Lerping is like tweening the objects.

imwatchingyou_haha1 · December 31, 2021, 6:43pm

They both have the same effect as far as I know, they are both creating new parts / Increasing the number of parts so I would image they carry the same effect on the game.

xipped · December 31, 2021, 6:46pm

nope. only 1 part. I already thought this through