Many many Bullets

[Wild_West]

Has anyone here ever played the game Furi?
I'm trying to replicate a bullet hell style of shooting like the one in that game but I can't seem to figure out how to work with all the instances I create because I just get errors that the ones with names I give don't exist.
I know I need to use a loop to make x amount of bullet instances and id them all with a variable name new_bullet_0 new_bullet_1 ect but I don't know how without just like, tagging the last one made.
Any help with looping would be appreciated, so I can actually understand what I need to do.

 

[Simon Gust]

Aren't loop patterns enough, why do you need to name instances?

 

[samspade]

Has anyone here ever played the game Furi?
I'm trying to replicate a bullet hell style of shooting like the one in that game but I can't seem to figure out how to work with all the instances I create because I just get errors that the ones with names I give don't exist.
I know I need to use a loop to make x amount of bullet instances and id them all with a variable name new_bullet_0 new_bullet_1 ect but I don't know how without just like, tagging the last one made.
Any help with looping would be appreciated, so I can actually understand what I need to do.

I'm not quite sure what you're asking here. I did look up a video of Furi. It seems like you just want enemies that can shoot a lot of bullets in a single frame? Maybe have those bullets know who shot them?

///whatever creates bullets, probably step or alarm
if (instance_exists(target)) {
    var angle = point_direction(x, y, target.x, target.y) - 25;
    repeat (10) {           
        var xx = lengthdir_x(5, angle);
        var yy = lengthdir_y(5, angle);                                     
        with (instance_create(x + xx, y + yy, obj_bullet)) {
            parent = other.id;
        }
        angle += 5;
    }
}

Again, this is only one example. You could accomplish the same thing with a for loop or a while loop for example. And I just made up one bullet pattern and saved the shooter object's id to the bullet object.

 

[Wild_West]

Aren't loop patterns enough, why do you need to name instances?

Actually yeah I don't know why I was thinking that, I got it working like I want now.

 

[Wild_West]

I'm not quite sure what you're asking here. I did look up a video of Furi. It seems like you just want enemies that can shoot a lot of bullets in a single frame? Maybe have those bullets know who shot them?

///whatever creates bullets, probably step or alarm
if (instance_exists(target)) {
    var angle = point_direction(x, y, target.x, target.y) - 25;
    repeat (10) {          
        var xx = lengthdir_x(5, angle);
        var yy = lengthdir_y(5, angle);                                    
        with (instance_create(x + xx, y + yy, obj_bullet)) {
            parent = other.id;
        }
        angle += 5;
    }
}

Again, this is only one example. You could accomplish the same thing with a for loop or a while loop for example. And I just made up one bullet pattern and saved the shooter object's id to the bullet object.

I didn't even think to use the lengthdir functions
But I will now. Question though, why the other.id assign for parent? unless this is a collision event I don't think other even works does it?

 

[elementbound]

In a with loop, you can use other to access the instance you started off with. So for example if you have object A and object B, and this code in one of object A's event:

// id here is an instance of A
with(B) {
    // id here is an instance of B
    // other.id here is the above instance of A
}

 

[RefresherTowel]

Btw, if you want to iterate through a list of items and give them all an id, you should use a for loop and an array:

for (var i=0;i<num_instances;i++) {
   instance_array[i] = instance_create(x,y,object);
}

Then you can just use instance_array[0], instance_array[1], etc to identify the individual instances.

 

[samspade]

I didn't even think to use the lengthdir functions
But I will now. Question though, why the other.id assign for parent? unless this is a collision event I don't think other even works does it?

You can use other in a with statement. So other.id is the id of the object instance using the with statement. You may not need to do this here, but I use it a lot to save which object created the new object. Say for some reason another object needs to know which instance shot that particular bullet.

 

[Wild_West]

In a with loop, you can use other to access the instance you started off with. So for example if you have object A and object B, and this code in one of object A's event:

// id here is an instance of A
with(B) {
    // id here is an instance of B
    // other.id here is the above instance of A
}

I'm still not sure I get it, I'd probably have to see it used in a specific code for something.
I mean I use with statements all the time just not in that way