I need help with making trail

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#1

Hi I wanted to make a sword trail like this

trail

but I am messing up every time I try to make something like that what kind of decal should I use to make a trail like that? should the decal be long? like a circle which has trail instead of circle? or what should I make so that my Trail looks like that

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#2

Look at it

#3

Great now I know how to make Sword slash vfx but that still doesn’t work

https://gyazo.com/08db4a0547f8121511446b9dbdcfc6b8

and this doesn’t teach or tell about scripting or something like that

#4

I think what you need first is a decal that has a background transparency. then add some random splashes to it.

I believe the easiest method would be to set it to a texture of a trail. Then make the texture length something quite long. So when the trail plays the background should be transparent.(I am not sure of how to do that but I am sure someone out there does.

Then in a script you just either need to start the trail at the start of the animation track playing or add some animation events e.g. SwingStart, SwingEnd, Preparation (You can also put a delay on it and manually line it up) Then stop it once the swing ends.

This is just a demo of what such a script could look like

-- Prerequisites: Already loaded and playing animation
local SwingFinishedSignal = AnimationTrack:GetMarkerReachedSignal ("SwingEnd")
local SwingStartConnection = AnimationTrack:GetMarkerReachedSignal("SwingStart"):Connect(function()
    Sword.Effects.SwordTrail.Enabled = true
    SwingFinishedSignal:Wait() -- This will yield forever if the animation is cancelled mid swing.
    Sword.Effects.SwordTrail.Enabled = false
end)

https://developer.roblox.com/en-us/api-reference/class/AnimationTrack