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How do you cool guys do them?

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In programs such as Correl or PSP, you can create a line as an "object" and then expand, contract, or stretch various axis.

In the few I've done for command briefing animations, I have several of these lines layered and anti-aliased to make an effect identical to the beam weapons in the game.

Now, I can even use the beam weapon in-game's .pcx files as a texture on the lines if I wanted to...

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Thanks Ace, I'll have to try that.

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