Well… how else to call a variable that handles
• pellet vs. 16×16 sprite (TH04),
• the delay cloud flags from bullet_spawn_state_t, but with different
values (which is restricted to 16×16 sprites in TH04),
• optionally showing the gather animation before spawning the bullet
… whether the bullet uses the basic slowdown motion (TH05),
(which is restricted to pellets in TH04),
• and defining what happens *after* the gather animation – not actually
spawning any bullets (TH04), or using the special motion type from
the bullet template (TH05)
🤯
Completes P0075, funded by Myles and -Tom-.
uth05win TL note: "n-way all-around" means "ring"… yep, let's better
improve on the naming here, once again using established terminology
from Sparen's Danmaku Design Guide at
https://sparen.github.io/ph3tutorials/ddsga3.html
Since TH04 only supports rings *or* spreads *or* stacks, overloading
[delta] to store both spread angle and stack speed, that enum does
serve kind of a purpose in TH04. Unlike TH05, where it could be vastly
simplified to a bitfield with 4 flags: aim to player, randomize angle,
randomize speed, force single. Which could then actually create *more*
types of patterns than these uselessly defined 14 distinct types, all
of which can already be derived from the other values of the upcoming
template structure:
• Set [stack] to 1 if you don't want a stack
• Set [spread] to 1 if you don't want a spread
• Set [spread_delta_angle] to 0 to turn a N-way spread into a ring
Easy.
Part of P0075, funded by Myles and -Tom-.
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