First place to confirm the hitbox of both the 8×8 pellets and the 16×16
sprite bullets!
Well, "hitbox". It's really more of a kill delta of 8×8 pixels between
the center points of a bullet and the player. You can distribute these
pixels to any combination of bullet and player "hitboxes" that make up
8×8. 4×4 around both the player and bullets? 1×1 for bullets, and 8×8
for the player? All equally valid… or perhaps none of them, once you
keep in mind that other entity types might have different kill deltas,
which turns the concept of a "hitbox" into just a confusing abstraction.
Part of P0150, funded by Blue Bolt.
Still way premature to say things like "the base speed of a bullet
aroup is not affected by difficulty, only by rank". (Which also would
be a way less meaningful statement than you might think it is.)
Part of P0150, funded by Blue Bolt.
Too bad that it would have made no sense to call them "goofy bullets".
"Regular" is also a better name than "normal" (which is a difficulty!).
Completes P0149, funded by Blue Bolt, Ember2528, and -Tom-.
motion_t is also used for certain animations in MAINE.EXE, so not all
instances refer to entities in playfield space. Explicitly specifying
the latter now allows us to gain…
Part of P0149, funded by Blue Bolt, Ember2528, and -Tom-.
And actually document them correctly.
Clear: Custom duration, awards constant points per bullet during the
entire duration, plays a decay animation
Zap: Fixed duration, awards a semi-exponential bonus for all bullets
alive on the first frame, plays a, um, "zapping" animation… in
TH04, because it's bugged in TH05 :zunpet:
Part of P0149, funded by Blue Bolt, Ember2528, and -Tom-.
We're going to need some name for the longer, boss-specific danmaku
animations. Turns out that these are exactly called "patterns" in
Sparen's glossary:
https://sparen.github.io/ph3tutorials/ddsg0.html#sub4
So what we called a "pattern" is actually called a "group". Whoops!
Part of P0142, funded by Yanga.
Making sure that we don't ever have to iterate over the 8×8 pellet part
of the bullet array during rendering… sure, but why not give the same
optimization treatment to the 16×16 bullets?
Part of P0112, funded by [Anonymous] and Blue Bolt.
… and this one, while I'm at it. I've been using pretty much every
possible type for VRAM offset variables, depending on my mood that day,
since signedness apparently never matters for those.
Except that it does. And so, just like with most of our high-level
types, we also have to account for ZUN's little signedness
inconsistencies here. Oh well, at least it's now only one of two types,
and there's no need to choose between `int` or `unsigned int` or
`short` or `unsigned short` or `int16_t` or `uint16_t` or `size_t` or…
Part of P0111, funded by [Anonymous] and Blue Bolt.
Whew, time to look at every `int` variable we ever declared! The best
moment to do this would have been a year ago, but well, better late
than never. No need to communicate that in comments anymore.
These shouldn't be used for widths, heights, or sprite-space
coordinates. Maybe we'll cover that another time, this commit is
already large enough.
Part of P0111, funded by [Anonymous] and Blue Bolt.
Because pretty much all of TH05's bullet spawn code is micro-optimized
and undecompilable ASM, we'll unfortunately have to keep those ASM
versions around forever 😕
Well, the TH05 ones at least.
Part of P0109, funded by [Anonymous] and Blue Bolt.
Adding op/, main/, and end/ directories does nicely cover a great
majority of the "not really further classifiable slices" implied in
d56bd45.
Part of P0086, funded by [Anonymous] and Blue Bolt.
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