[Xpilot-hacks] laser hacks

[Kimiko Koopman]

On Monday  5 May 2003, at 17:35, Ed (cashin at cs.uga.edu) wrote:
>I don't think so.  A laser is a beam of light.  Getting in the way of
>that beam should cause damage, so it can't be represented as one point
>at the end of the beam.

I think Bert's original idea was to have only one long laser beam,
which he later modified to a short moving beam because it worked
better in the game. The pulse you see displayed is meant to be a
beam, not a point with a tail. But if that point is moved along
the whole beam you see, the actual result should be the same.

Kimiko