“Can you port the plugin to 3D ?” ”We have 3D at home.”

The 3D at home :

Version BLAST! 4.5.5 adds a depth system to fake depth. That way, you can spawn bullets in the background and see them getting closer to the screen.

Features are a bunch of Bullet Props properties :

• ☄️Depth system : (see ☄️Depth system)
  • Active : the “foreground” area where bullets can interact with the world. X is the minimum, Y the maximum. 0,0 disables the depth system.
  • Spawn: spawning depth of the bullet
  • Speed: the speed at which the bullet gets closer to the foreground
  • Min/Max : min (X) and max (Y) depth values at which the bullet can exist. Beyond that, it is destroyed.
  • Bounce : instead of being destroyed, it bounces back in the other depth direction.

You have to imagine that your game has a third “depth” axis, which goes from -infitiy to +infinity. A part of this axis (depth_active) is the foreground and the rest is the background. All of your game happens in the foreground, where bullets interact normally.

When bullets are at a depth value below depth_active.x, they’re in the background. Their size is smaller and they are somewhat transparent. They still act as normal bullets, but they no longer collide with anything.

With a depth_speed > 0, the bullet will go towards the screen, until it reaches the foreground where it can interact with the world. This is useful if you want to have attack patterns where the enemy is in a fake background and shoots bullets from there.

The bullet can go beyond the foreground (> depth_active.y) and if it goes outside depth_min_max, it is erased.

Pro tip : if you get the reference to the bullet, you can change bullet[depth] and bullet[depth_speed] to make the bullet stop / go back / start moving.

The Pattern Circle also has a new “perspective” property to squish it so it looks like a circle in a 2.5D environement.