Bullet Types
The currently implemented bullet types are as follows, in increasing order of rendering priority.
Note: if a bullet name starts with "G", that means it is a glowy style (usually rendered additively).
| Bullet Type | Notes |
|---|---|
Lasers (laser command) |
|
| Laser | |
| StretchLaser | |
| ArrowLaser | |
| SunnyLaser | |
| GLaser | Additive rendering |
| GStretchLaser | Additive rendering |
| GDLaser | Additive rendering |
| MuLaser | Should not be given a hitbox |
| ZoneLaser | Should not be given a hitbox |
Pathers (pather command) |
|
| Pather | |
| ArrowPather | |
| Lightning | |
| GPather | Additive rendering |
| Flake Bullets (internal) | |
| $flakeBulletClear | Created when bullets are cleared (by default, via camera or end-of-phase, configurable as SoftcullProperties.UseFlakeItems); homes after the player and grants 42 points on contact (configurable in IScoreFeature.AddBulletFlakeItem) |
Simple Bullets (s, simple commands) |
|
| SCircle | Nonrotational |
| EllyScythe | |
| StellDecagon | |
| LCircle | |
| LEllipse | |
| LStar | |
| FlashArrow | Animated |
| DCircle | |
| Fireball | |
| Sakura | |
| Apple | |
| Amulet | Also AmuletReimu |
| Circle | |
| Ellipse | |
| Gem | |
| Shell | |
| Arrow | |
| Star | |
| Triangle | Default suicide bullet style |
| Dot | |
| Strip | |
| Sun | Additive rendering, nonrotational |
| GGLCircle | Additive rendering, basically the same as GLCircle but slightly smaller. |
| GLCircle | Additive rendering |
| Keine | Additive rendering |
| GCircle | Additive rendering |
| GDCircle | Additive rendering |
When summoning bullets, use the format: {SHAPE}-{COLOR}{GRADIENT}, where:
- shape is one of the styles listed above, in lowercase
- color is one of: black, purple, teal, green, orange, yellow, red, pink, blue
- gradient is one of:
/w,/,/b(light, colored, and inverted colorings respectively)
The engine uses runtime texture recoloring, so you may see one lag spike the first time you use a SCircle or Sun style, as they take a while to instantiate.
The rendering order of colors is as listed:
black, purple, teal, green, orange, yellow, red, pink, blue
where black is the lowest and blue is the highest.
You can add colors in Bullet Manager: Basic Gradient Palettes on the GameManagement prefab.
Between gradients, the order looks like this:
red/b < blue/b < red/ < blue/ < red/w < blue/w
To add new bullets, create a prefab (preferably somewhere in Danmokou/Prefab/Bullets) and then link the prefab in the Danmokou/SO/References/Bullet Styles object.
You can change the rendering priority of bullets in a script by using the pool control setrenderqueue. Note that the base render queue is 3000 for most bullets as defined on the material Core Firing/Basic, and this is added to the Render Priority value in the Simple Bullet Empty Script script on bullet prefabs, and there is another offset for the color. Circle bullets have render queue values in the 3600s.
Miscellaneous Bullet Notes
Culling
- Empty bullets have a significantly larger cull radius, to prevent trailing bullets from getting stuck.
- Pathers are culled automatically, but the culling is handled by a callback passed to the rendering script. Thus culling is disabled in the bullet script.
- Lasers are not culled automatically. If you need to cull lasers (instead of letting them die normally) then use a
beh-poolcommand.