Trail objects have been randomly changed to be 4x shorter in their length. Before adjusting Trail’s in all of my games to their new size, I would like to ask if this is an intended change or not.
This bug started happening about 1 week ago
Existing post about this behavior:
You should consider changing the title to “Trail length is based on FPS”.
Here are some gifs showing off this bug.
~120 FPS:
Also it should be noted that this used to work properly before and it was a Roblox update which broke how trails work.
For now you can work around this and get the old expected behaviour (roughly) by calculating Trail.Lifetime every frame as:
Trail.Lifetime = Lifetime * 1/(dt*30) * 2
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Lifetime: The actual lifetime you want the trail to last for.
1/(dt*30): Scales 'lifetime' so the trail doesn't change length based on FPS. (dt = delta time)
2: Whatever update messed this up also made trails last shorter by an unknown factor.
So we have to multiply the lifetime back up by something which seems correct.
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Not only that, but they used to have a beautiful smoothness to them when their source changed
direction–Now they’re short and jerky fugly.