Demo 2 Video - https://www.youtube.com/shorts/q85bW7Kw364
Demo 1 Video - https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Di3-0ckAI0s
#Beautiful Bullet Hell Toolkit
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version 0.1.0.7 Changelog: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1k7kf__djHqoBwOQzrE04d8ZkQ3TKMGTVjuJIAWRnFWM/edit?usp=sharing
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version 0.1.0.9 Changelog https://docs.google.com/document/d/1k7kf__djHqoBwOQzrE04d8ZkQ3TKMGTVjuJIAWRnFWM/
patent ivy
awesome. i'm a touhou fan, so i like this 👍 🐰 👉
dry sable
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Added ways to fly over a game level while the projectiles maintain a relative velocity:
https://youtu.be/iLaTg4J2r9Q
patent ivy
interesting.
suggestion. make the bg darker
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dm24XyRPMwg
the value is too high, not enough contrast with game elements. makes it hard to read. specally on a BH.
in th the bg is considerably muted, as if there's a veil
dry sable
Good point! While this is meant to be a demonstration for the toolkit, it is still important to adhere to the basics in presentation 🙂
patent ivy
Good point! While this is meant to be a demonstration for the toolkit, it is st...
thanks :) yes, for a demo is pretty good, but that detail makes it hard to see the bullets and how the toolkit works.
quiet sorrel
Are your projectiles all their own actor or do you use some kind of trick. While my project isn't a bullet hell one, I'd love to know how people handle bullets
quiet sorrel
Mayhaps a sort of bullet manager?
dry sable
Mayhaps a sort of bullet manager?
In the current version, each projectile is an actor with a Projectile Movement Component and a custom Behavior Component. I initially wrote a custom bullet manager, but even in it's simplest iteration, it was causing stall issues. The Projectile Movement Component is extremely performant, so I've been sticking with it for now. I've stress tested with up to 3000 active projectiles (way more than a shoot'em would normally have) without system stall. Keep in mind, my use case allows you to manipulate the projectile velocity in flight, so it isn't all just straight lines.
quiet sorrel
I see, I will attempt to make a bullet manager for my system. How did you approach the visualization of the bullet? I was thinking some trickery with a instanced static mesh
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I did make an ISM manager, but its only really worth it for higher poly meshes. So I'm just using static meshes for now for the added flexibility.
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muted the background quite a bit: https://youtube.com/shorts/z8xFmHlHH68?feature=share
patent ivy
that's pretty good. still a bit too much imho.
also i'd tone down the glow/blur. it's hard to see the bullets. in a bullet hell that's central.
the halo in the bullets makes it hard to make small movement, or distinguish patterns with periferal view.
most danmakus i like have very sharp bullets with almost solid color. i think it works really well.
the function might define the aesthetic a bit, but that's peak performance imho.
the patterns are pretty good.
(the music is not my style, doesn't match the game either.)
it'd be nice to show movement with kb or joystick. it seems you're using the mouse.
personally i dislike mouse movements. since the speed is very fluctuating is harder to make precise movement, and since the movement is not capped, it really takes away from the feeling of a bh, and you have to compensate with too many bullets or smth. imho. that's my preference, i know others might prefer different.
also with non/mouse control you can do things like "focus mode". and grazing.
also it'd be nice to showcase if you have bombs (that clear bullets in an area).
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it'd be nice to show movement with kb or joystick. it seems you're using the mou...
I usually do these vids with a gamepad, but the project includes both gamepad and mouse/keyboard controls. There is a bomb feature added, I just need to put it in a video, lol
New video, flying over a vertical city of sorts. A quick note: all of the bullet patterns in these videos are included in the project ready to go (or will be at the next update). Since the projectile patterns and enemy spawn scripts are Data Assets, it makes it easy to plug into your own project and tweak from there.
https://youtube.com/shorts/ifHcAcPeycU?feature=share
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Stress test for an upcoming update: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/OeePMj2HZZw
I'm working on a version with instanced static meshes next
severe night
Stress test for an upcoming update: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/OeePMj2HZZw
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This is awesome great job. Very performant
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Stress test for 50,000+ ISM projectiles. kept it over 60FPS in 4k, so I'm happy with it: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/0BocmlEa9h0
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Another boss pattern demo: https://youtube.com/shorts/mfaZpbJixbU on a side note, Fab has randomly decided this module is "Mature". So that's a thing.
