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The old neophyte movement changed moveMode from 1 to -1 and back on every bullet hit. Then used direction *= moveMode to flip between orbit mode and oscillate mode whenever we get hit.

The new adept movement keeps that, but combines it with a yatagan style onDeath lookup table. However note that in adept onDeath uses moveMode += 2. ^ is the XOR operator, so on every bullet hit we toggle the low bit. This allows it to combine pure orbit, switch on death to pure oscillate. Do that a few times as yatagan does, then after several deaths it will go back to toggling between orbit and oscillate on every hit.

Nz.jdc (talk)23:36, 4 June 2013

D'oh! I thought that carets were exponentiation operators. Your movement makes much more sense to me now that I realize they are inequality checks.

Sheldor (talk)03:04, 5 June 2013

Sorry for being all pedantic about it, but I just wanted to make sure you understood that XOR isn't an inequality check.

if you have two numbers say:

a=1000101;

b=1011110;

then c=a^b; sets each bit of c to 1 iff that bit in a is one or that bit in b is 1 but not both. Otherwise the bit is set to 0. So c==0011011 is true.

Again. Sorry for being pedantic but I wanted to make sure that this was clear.

AW (talk)18:02, 6 June 2013

Thanks.

Sheldor (talk)19:26, 6 June 2013