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public var colorGradient: Gradient;
public Gradient colorGradient;

Description

Set the color gradient describing the color of the trail at various points along its length.

See Also: Gradient.

#pragma strict
private var tr: TrailRenderer;
function Start() {
	tr = GetComponent.<TrailRenderer>();
	tr.material = new Material(Shader.Find("Sprites/Default"));
	// A simple 2 color gradient with a fixed alpha of 1.0f.
	var alpha: float = 1.0f;
	var gradient: Gradient = new Gradient();
	gradient.SetKeys([new GradientColorKey(Color.green, 0.0f), new GradientColorKey(Color.red, 1.0f)], [new GradientAlphaKey(alpha, 0.0f), new GradientAlphaKey(alpha, 1.0f)]);
	tr.colorGradient = gradient;
}
function Update() {
	tr.transform.position = new Vector3(Mathf.Sin(Time.time * 1.51f) * 7.0f, Mathf.Cos(Time.time * 1.27f) * 4.0f, 0.0f);
}
using UnityEngine;
using System.Collections;

public class ExampleClass : MonoBehaviour { private TrailRenderer tr;

void Start() { tr = GetComponent<TrailRenderer>(); tr.material = new Material(Shader.Find("Sprites/Default"));

// A simple 2 color gradient with a fixed alpha of 1.0f. float alpha = 1.0f; Gradient gradient = new Gradient(); gradient.SetKeys( new GradientColorKey[] { new GradientColorKey(Color.green, 0.0f), new GradientColorKey(Color.red, 1.0f) }, new GradientAlphaKey[] { new GradientAlphaKey(alpha, 0.0f), new GradientAlphaKey(alpha, 1.0f) } ); tr.colorGradient = gradient; }

void Update() { tr.transform.position = new Vector3(Mathf.Sin(Time.time * 1.51f) * 7.0f, Mathf.Cos(Time.time * 1.27f) * 4.0f, 0.0f); } }