Vertical Moving Platforms using the PMO extension?

Hi, I suggest you check out this example: Please login to see this link.
It uses PMO and an approach which manages perfectly interaction with every possible moving platform (horizontal/vertical, but also diagonal, path movement, etc.)

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Hi, I suggest you check out this example: Please login to see this link.
It uses PMO and an approach which manages perfectly interaction with every possible moving platform (horizontal/vertical, but also diagonal, path movement, etc.)

Nevermind, it works!

Made this moving platform example ages ago. Can't remember how it works, but it may help.

If you read the official documentation of the object you can use the Set additional X (or Y) velocity action

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If you read the official documentation of the object you can use the Set additional X (or Y) velocity action

I have, and additional Y velocity doesn't work, the player falls through if the platform moves up and the character stutters if the platform moves down.

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Made this moving platform example ages ago. Can't remember how it works, but it may help.

Really nice, I'd forgotten about this example! Any ideas how to make the player get pushOut-ed when he's overlapping this background obstacle on the platform?

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I have an example here I've been working on using [MENTION=6771]DaveC[/MENTION] example with MoveSafely2 pushing the player out on the platform: Please login to see this attachment.

It works if you sit still, but try walking into the backdrop as it ascends and the player will fall through the platform. I think this is because PMO adds extra velocity to the loop which MoveSafely misses. If you can come up with any way of adding a horizontal pushOut routine to your example (it never needs a vertical pushOut, since Sonic The Hedgehog dies if he gets squished on a vertical ascension;a death squash routine would be cool to add though!)

Here's a working version of [MENTION=7222]Caesar[/MENTION] 's version with pushout obstacles: Please login to see this attachment.

Here's a fixed version that works with multiple platforms, and has been reduced to one pushout routine due to condensed direction test (this can be refined much further by changing flags to multiplying a move value by -1): Please login to see this attachment.

It gets ugly if you get trapped under the wall on the y axis moving upwards, but it's still elegant enough to keep you on the platform. A head test collider could allow for a "crush sonic" function to kill you, but this isn't implemented in this example.