The bullet “fan” is the spread distance between multiple bullets. Windmilling is when a bullets shoot out in a rotational manner, sort of like a windmill.
Both of these values need angle adjustments to work, and of course, they will conflict when used together.
I want a bullet fan to windmill, but both apply their increments to the angle value, making the windmilling too fast for my liking.
Even though your solution is clever, I’m still adding fanSpread in the event above, which just reverts the change. Is there some way to prevent the second fanSpread equation from happening?
No, I meant to have 2 subevents under that “Repeat guy.variable(bulletAmount) times” block - one to only add a force for fan bullets (fanSpread), another to only add a force for windmill bullets ((fanSpread + rotateAngle)/2).
You’re still adding fanSpread for all bullet types, rather than just fanning bullets.
If you must have the fanSpread in the same event as the create action, then maybe changing the last action to “(guy.Variable(rotateAngle) - guy.variable(fanSpread))2”. Otherwise you’re adding 1.5 lots of fanSpread.
Just having another look at what you’ve provided, and it looks like it’s just the bit that gives the bullet the initial push once it’s created. Are there more events that add a force to the bullet, to get it to rotate around the player as it fans out?
Even then, these are state locked, so the other state can’t access these events. Otherwise, everything that makes the bullets move (Excluding the spiraling bullets) are all in the previous screenshot
Sorry, I’m a tad confused. How do the windmilling and spiralling bullets differ in their movement pattern? Any chance you show the difference in a gif?
So do you effectively want 3 streams (like the fan) but coming out windmill style? Because in the 3rd image it pretty much comes out as a fast windmill - the 3 streams seem to merge into 1.
Definitely. The problem looks like you increment the angle at which the bullets are fired 3 times, but the angle is never reset before adding the rotation speed. The following should fix it :
This also affects the normal windmilling too, causing that to windmill faster too. Is the multiple of 3 necessary for this, or would it be better of as an expression call?
