Since there has been so much talk about trails in different forms i thought i would give people something to get ideas from.
I have added something called a TrailMesh to jME 2.0 which basically is an updating triangle strip. With it’s different settings it’s pretty easily used for rocket/space ship trails, sword trails, skidmarks, as a filler for particlesystems or whatever.
It either renders with a specified tangent for it’s slope/gradient or in billboard mode which makes the strip face the camera, and thus fakes being a volume (try by freezing the trail in the TestTrailMesh and spin the camera around it).
There are other settings like updateMode (step/interpolate), width, updateSpeed etc but it’s easier to just fire up TestTrailMesh and play with the runtime settings and/or look at the code…
Edit: Feel free to give me suggestions on fixes/additions or bugreports offcourse.
Nice, that looks really good! Thanks alot MrCoder.
very nice, gotta switch to jme 2 now to test this 
Great! :lol:
Thanks a lot !
Yeah… 2.0 gets better and better…
Nice work Coder
there is a small typo:
- t = Text.createDefaultTextLabel("Text", "2/3: Step/Interpolate");
+ t = Text.createDefaultTextLabel("Text", "3/4: Step/Interpolate");
btw. and are the keys Y and H side by side on your keyboard mr. coder? :)
Fixed typos etc.