mysterymagination
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10 months ago - single laser bolt aimed at player with no physics that doesn't trip player iframes so it can strike multiple times
- maybe this could be a box or capsule primitive we generate at runtime and apply an appropriate material to. For the iframes part, we'd just need someplace in one of the HitBoxerComponent::OnHit() params to shove in a flag disabling iframes and other default handling modifiers.
- vertical spray pattern of bullets vaguely in the player's direction, ideally with several spline patterns, maybe slightly randomized splines.
- idea is to spawn bullets along a spline path and then have that whole spline move at the player such that we get the effect of automatic weapons spray 'n pray type patterns. Or I guess in that impl you would only need the spline for spawning and after picking the spawn point it would just fly off along its forward vector. Alternatively, the bullet could move along the spline over time and the spline overall could be launched towards the player? The latter would be more bullet hellish, which I like, and would allow for more algo art bullet movement patterns.
- ~horizontal sweep pattern unbroken laser cannon.~
- ~This one will be tricky. Ideal case would be she sends out a physics probe to find the nearest collision at a given start angle from a given starting cannon muzzle location and that becomes the length of the laser capsule. Each time increment N she sweeps the physics probe by some angle X degrees in the cw/ccw direction the player was relative to the initial firing vector when she started shooting and then that new distance becomes the new length of the laser. This creates the illusion that she's firing an unbroken stream that is interrupted only by solid objects. The initial firing vector would be some Y count of X degrees off from the player's position at the time of firing. This creates the notion that she is aiming near the player to start and then sweeping the laser towards the player, making it more difficult to dodge than a directly aimed shot.~ EDIT: nevermind, this is trickier than I anticipated and taking plenty long with just the two attacks. I'd rather move on to attacks for the verdant golem, lore, and level design tickets. Can always add more monster abilities later.