Ribbon Trail

This addon lets you add smooth, good-looking ribbon trails to any object in Construct 3. Attach a trail to a player, projectile, sword, comet or vehicle and it follows the object with a curved, fading ribbon 🎨✨

With this addon, you can:

• Attach a ribbon trail to any target object and change the target at any time by UID 🎯
• Get smooth curves that stay clean through sharp turns 🌀
• Control the trail length with Max Points and the thickness with Width 📏
• Fade the trail from a start alpha at the head to an end alpha at the tail 🌫️
• Choose how the trail end behaves: Normal, Reduce or Grow, with its own timing ⏳
• Add optional fade-in and fade-out effects with custom durations 💫
• Draw the ribbon with the object's texture or a flat fill color 🖼️🎨
• Apply acceleration, acceleration angle and gravity so the trail drifts, falls or streams 🌪️
• Use Enforce Shape so the whole trail shifts with the target and keeps its shape 🧩
• Use the standard Construct blend modes for glowing, additive-style effects 🔆
• Clear, enable or disable the trail at runtime, and read its state with expressions ⚙️

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TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS:

✓ Built with Construct 3 SDK v2 ✅

✓ Requires Construct 3 r401 or newer

✓ Works with the WebGL renderer (the default in Construct 3)

✓ Lots of ACEs: conditions, actions and expressions for the trail, fade, color, acceleration and enforce settings

WHAT'S INCLUDED:

• 🔧 The addon (.c3addon)
• 🎬 An example project (.c3p) with 10 ready-to-run templates
• 📜 PDF for the ACE guide

USE CASES:

• Objectives collect with FX trail 💎 (see the Coin Shower template)
• Projectile and bullet trails 🚀
• Comets, shooting stars and magic effects ☄️
• Player dashes and speed effects 💨
• Vehicle, drift and skid trails 🏎️
• Tails for creatures, ribbons and streamers 🎀

REQUIREMENTS:

• Construct 3 r401 or newer ✅
• WebGL renderer ✅

Limitations

• Needs a target object to follow, set with the Set Target action (without one, no new points are added)
• Trails are drawn by the WebGL renderer, so there is no canvas fallback