bullet spray...

[mobichan]

I was wondering how I would go about firing bullets in a spray, where each bullet is firing X degrees from the last bullet fired. I can imagine just making a line of code for each bullet spawned, but I was curious if there was a formula for incrementing degrees (ie, bullet 1 fires toward 0 degrees, bullet 2 fires toward bullet 1+ X degrees, bullet 3 fires toward bullet 2+ X degrees, etc)? So far I can't figure out how to deal with degrees when setting the direction, since it seems to want to use the preset 32 directions.

[lembi2001]

could you use the advanceddirection object? not sure how you would go about it but this might help you.

[mobichan]

I am having a hard time finding examples of how to get creative with bullet patterns. I want to make at least basic stuff like radial, spray and spread pattern firing. The Advanced Direction object is a bit, well, advanced for me. And the more I play with setting each bullet manually, the more I think I am going to run into problems.

Any Danmaku/Cave shooter fans out there with advice?

[InsertNameHere]

Here is an example of rotational shooting that I made:
http://files.filefront.com/Rotation+Shootingmfa/;10053398;/fileinfo.html
I hope this helps.

[mobichan]

Thanks for the example. That is a great place for me to start playing with bullets. One question: Did you set the direction to give the object a reference angle from which to adjust the angle? I was only setting the angle in my own tests and that seems to be what I was missing.

Mobichan

[InsertNameHere]

If you only change the angle it will just shoot forward but facing a different direction each time. So you have to change the direction also so that it will fire forward than left than down etc...