I’ve been trying to make a motion trail in Unity, but my character is static while the background is moving, so I’m opting for a line renderer with fake velocity.
Everything has been working well so far, but I’m having a problem with the texture of the line with varying width, my texture gets jagged between points. I’m not talking about “turning a corner” between points, as my line is perfectly straight. Is there a fix to this? Or is there a workaround that you would recommend?
You cant tell Unity line geo to generate spans on both U and V…this is an artifact of triangle density
In Unity it will better serve you to have a custom procedural geo tool.
In this particular effect taper the textures and keep the geo straight.
You can also emit non-rendered partices with velocity and use the ribbon module to draw a line between them, it may be able to create more cross sections to hide the jaggy
Torbach, thank you so much! I ended up replacing the texture and maintaining the width consistent in the geo like you proposed.
I also tried using the ribbon inside the particle system component, but I got a lot of awkard intersection issues when moving the trail. I tried playing with the particle emission, but I couldn’t get rid of it completely.
Regardless, now it’s looking exactly how I wanted, thanks again!
