attack boxes on diagonal beams

[rafhot]

i started to play with some beam rays and i want to know what is the best method to create diagonal beams attacks?

since we only can do one attack box per frame, and doing it on a diagonal beam will result into an square how the best way to do it?

for example: if my beam animation have 25 frames, and if i add a small attackboxes in each frame in different positions should work? instead one big attackboxes that will make a big square attack into my diagonal beam?

here some shots of what im doing and how i set the attackbox
https://www.dropbox.com/s/2ieuo3hlwlqsiys/xmen%20-%200016.png
https://www.dropbox.com/s/j3loeppuqa91imu/xmen%20-%200018.png

heres the link of my diagonal beam
https://www.dropbox.com/s/ekabclcg97kt7kk/atkbox.png

you can notice on the image that i will hit enemies even if they are far from the beam ray

 

[O Ilusionista]

split the beam into many pieces and put the boxes in each piece.

 

[Bloodbane]

if my beam animation have 25 frames, and if i add a small attackboxes in each frame in different positions should work?

Why not? That's what I do

Alternatively you can fake it by shooting an invisible projectile at same time with this beam to do the actual attack while the beam itself has no attackbox.

 

[rafhot]

thanks guys, time to update those attackboxes once again