A bullet spawner, spawns bullets at its position without the need of writing code. You don’t need a SpawnPoint if you wish to spawn bullets by code.

<aside> 📌 Items marked with a ☄️are exclusive to the BLAST! version. Items marked with a 🌀 will disappear in future versions.

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Properties :

• Active : (des)activate the node

• Pattern ID : ID of the Spawn Pattern Resource linked to this SpawPoint

• Shared Area Name : name of the Shared Area under which the bullets will be spawned.

• ☄️Process ID : gives an ID to the Spawning.spawn() call that the spawnpoint executes. It can be used for some other functions such as ☄️process_kill(process:int) : stop a spawning process, given its ID.

• Rotation speed : if the SpawnPoint must spin on itself.

• Pool amount : see Pooling

• Multi Patterns :

  • ☄️Multi : a list of IDs like Pattern ID . As soon as the first pattern is done spawning (all its iterations), the next pattern in the list will spawn automatically. If you use this property, Pattern ID will be ignored. If you want to further customise this behavior, call ☄️spawn_list(spawner:Array, id:PackedStringArray, loops:int=0, shared_area:Array[String]=["0"], process_id:int=-1, cust_bullet): spawn a list of patterns one by one. It’s used exactly like spawn() except that all the arguments are arrays. Loop determines if it loops back to the start of the list once it reaches the end. id is the list of pattern spawned. For each pattern of index i, the spawner i and shared area i will be used. If those lists have less items than i, the last item of the list will be used. So if you don’t want to change the shared_area, just input a list with a single item for example. by code instead.
  • ☄️ Loop : once the list reaches the end, it will loop back to the beginning.
  • ☄️All in 1 : instead of spawning one by one, all the patterns in the list will spawn at the same time. It is incompatible with loop.

• Autostart & Triggering

  • Start after time: starts automatically after this amount of time

  <aside> ☄️ the following properties can now be changed at runtime

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  • Start on Cam : only starts when on screen
  • Start at distance | Distance from : must be at this distance from the node in the Distance from property in order to start

• Advanced Triggering : Nodepath to the TriggerContainer which will handle the triggering.

• ☄️Preview :

  • Activate : enable the preview feature for this spawn point. Spawn points and bullet trajectories will be displayed. This is not fully accurate as it doesn’t take into account things such as randomisation, homing, collisions,… This will only work if both a pattern and bullet properties are linked to this spawnpoint. This doesn’t work for multi patterns.
  • Length : amount of iterations when calculating trajectories.
  • Delay : delay between iterations.

☄️There is also a Randomisation category to randomize properties. Unlike the other randomization features, this one has no impact on performances.

Functions :

You might wanna call these functions.