Trail Mesh

How To Use TrailMesh

TrailMesh creates a new Mesh that trails another.

var newTrail = new BABYLON.TrailMesh(name, generator, scene, diameter, length, autoStart);

newTrail.start();       //features/starts the trailing mesh.
newTrail.stop();        //Stops the trailing mesh.

variable	description
variable name	description The value used by scene.getMeshByName() to do a lookup.
variable generator	description The mesh to generate a trail.
variable scene	description The scene to add this mesh to.
variable diameter (optional)	description Diameter of trailing mesh. Default is 1.
variable length (optional)	description Length of trailing mesh. Default is 60.
variable autoStart (optional)	description Automatically start trailing mesh. Default true.

TrailMesh will be affected by all modifications to the generator mesh. Using bakeCurrentTransformIntoVertices on the generator after scaling (and before a position shift) will prevent the TrailMesh from scaling.

Example Usage

var alpha = Math.PI;
// Create a mesh for the trail to follow.
var cube = BABYLON.MeshBuilder.CreateBox('cube', {  }, scene);
cube.scaling.y = 2;
cube.bakeCurrentTransformIntoVertices();
cube.position.x = Math.sin(alpha)*10;
cube.position.z = Math.cos(alpha)*10;
cube.computeWorldMatrix(true);

var trail = new BABYLON.TrailMesh('new', cube, scene, .5, 60, true);

var sourceMat = new BABYLON.StandardMaterial('sourceMat', scene);
sourceMat.emissiveColor = 
sourceMat.diffuseColor = new BABYLON.Color3.Red();
sourceMat.specularColor = new BABYLON.Color3.Black();

trail.material = sourceMat;

observer = scene.onBeforeRenderObservable.add(animate);
function animate() {
    alpha += Math.PI/120;
    cube.position.x = Math.sin(alpha)*10;
    cube.position.z = Math.cos(alpha)*10;
    cube.rotation.x = Math.PI*alpha/2;
    cube.rotation.y = alpha;
}

Examples

Glowing orbs with trail