Pull Playercharcter up a Ledge with a nifty Animation

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    I'm a bit confused how to do that with a animation like in Metroid Fusion.

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    I tried it with this:

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    I have a path movement setup so if the Playerflag is 8 and the joypad is being pressed up the path movements come up and the new animation is played. Well... in theory it worked (like so many other ideas *lol*) but in short it really sucks. xD
    Am I being stupid and trying something which is easy to do in a other, maybe better/faster way?

    If I dont use the Animation for climbing up and only use the path movement it looks ok, but well, I'm trying out new stuff so I give it a shot. :)

    If you need more, then just tell me. ^^

    im trying to find it now, there was an example on the games factory.

    a game called ZEB, you could look through and see how they done it if this helps, ill find the file and upload it

    seems the clickteam link is broken to zeb. if anyone has the file it would help you alot

    Edited once, last by Ryan9171 (September 6, 2012 at 6:26 PM).

    heres the link, seems broken? Please login to see this link.

    im gonna keep looking for a working version

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    just installing games factory 1 to get the example file :P

    ill upload it to a site and send you the link ;)

    EDIT: seems like the file doesnt exsist, ill make an example as i made a game and used ZEBs example before

    Edited 2 times, last by Ryan9171 (September 6, 2012 at 11:31 PM).

    That's a link to the old Clickteam website, which is why there are lots of broken links...

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    Im guessing you have a Character hanging from a ledge, and you want him to trigger some kind of anmimation or function wich pulls him up and makes him stand on the ground.

    The ledge climbing in Zeb is not like the ledge climbing you describe or as shown in the video.

    In Zeb the player is able to hang from Ledges.
    When the Character is hanging from a Ledge in Zeb, the Player can do a regular Jump and navigate to land on the Ground above ( it is not an animation wich pulls the Character up untill standing on the Ground ).

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    My suggestion:

    ( 1 ) - Make this design consideration. Make sure all ledge hanging points ( or however you define your lede hanging points ) are located the exact same Y distance from the Ground above.

    ( 2 ) - Create an 'ClimbUp Animation' wich triggers when the Character is hanging from a Ledge and the player presses UP/ JUMP.
    When creating the Animation you will need to take into cosideration the distance between the Ledge Handing Point and the Ground Above for it to look perfect.

    ( 3 ) - When the Animation finishes, simply set Animation to Stopped and reposition the Character correctly so it will look seemless.

    There is bound to be some trial and error with the Animation Creation and Repositioning ( 2 and 3 ), but making sure the distances between Ledge Hanging Points and Above Ground is crucial for it to work and look consistent( 1 ).

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    I get your Idea if you use some type of qualifier or objects that needs to colide AND are not on your character.
    I dont use qualifiers though... On my character there are allways 4 little images (basicly 1 pixel only) attached that allways scroll with my character. If right_up_image DON'T collide AND at the same time right_down_image collides with a backdrop, then the character is hanging in his hanging_on_ledges_pose.

    Right now I almost got it right. Need a little finetune and maybe the file from ryan can help me out, too.

    Edited 2 times, last by Gogeta (September 9, 2012 at 9:43 PM).

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