Shmup Baby

[EbalStudios]

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Hi there!

I followed about 10 tutorial videos to discover all the features, and, I have mainly one big question:
what about pooling?

I’m not sure about how did you implement basic projectiles, but my guess is that you’re relying on particle collisions.

Yet, enemies, waves, rockets, soundfx, vfx, doesn’t seem to be pluggable to any pooling system right out of the box.

I was thinking about using hundreds of projectiles as in a bullet hell shooter, but I’m really worried it could possibly not perform so well on mobile.

Is it on the roadmap? Do you have any eta for this?

Man, you seem really fired up to making an awesome Shmup!
You are correct, the bullets are particles so they should perform with ease, but the missiles, enemies, vfx are not pooled as you predicted. Haven’t yet tried to take it to the limits on a mobile to see how it goes, but if you are using just a lot of bullets it should be fine.

Sorry man, no etas, but I just updated the first post to include a road map and keep everyone posted how it’s all going.

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Also, I was thinking about moving to 2.5D, but I guess the whole system only works with an orthographic camera? I’d love if it also supported perspective cameras… I know that there’s an extra layer of complexity but…

Yes, right now it’s orthographic only, but this and the pooling system are on the top of our priorities whenever we get a chance to rebuild this pack or make some serious changes to it.

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I wish there was… some trial version to test it or check its implementation before purchasing ^_^"
I really appreciated the tutorials, they really cover almost everything you may need, and I hope each and every class is easily extendable

At this thread first post you should now find a code sample, really can’t say if this is extendable as I don’t know how you will use it but the sample should help I hope. A simplified free version is a good idea and maybe we will do it at some point.

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Is it possible to add an offset to the Follow Touch mobile control method? Most current mobile games on the store offer at least a dual control method: right on your finger + offset, and draggable (you drag on the screen and the player ship moves by the same amount… or more! some games do implement some sort of multiplier, like it was a sort of draggable joystick)

Yes, this is already implemented in shmup baby, we added the offset so your finger does not cover the player and have the option of a joystick.

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If I had 10 points to distribute points on the feature I’d love to see most would be:
6 on the pooling system
2 on the camera
2 on the controls
Thanks for your time
Best,
Alex

Yup, I own that package as well. I wish you shipped everything in a “megapack”, or several packs, so I’m a bit unsure on purchasing each package indipendently… they’re quite a lot, and I would prefer not to be purchasing the same asset twice to have the chance of just doing a bulk import

That was the initial plan, but we were hindered by Unity’s file size limitation. A lot of customers asked for the substance files which made the USC collection size grow to the max limit and we couldn’t add anything to it. If you open up this thread and only buy the purple items you will not get anything repeated: Ebal Studios 3D Art Assets - Support

Would love to make a mega pack but the main limitation is the file size

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Maybe there’s a Shmup Pro in the making?

Actually YES! but if you read the newly added road map in the first post you will get what I mean, still a long way. but the plan is to take this to the next level and do my best in terms of quality but it will take quite a long time before you see any results. So I wouldn’t actually wait for it.