Directional Collision Detection

It's been a long time since I've played with these programs, most of my work was done in the Klik and Play days, but I'm trying to get some more advanced stuff done with MMF2, and I had a problem with something I was trying to do...maybe someone can help?

My first project just to remind myself how to do everything old and learn the new features, I wanted to make a cheap clone of Zelda II for the NES, if anyone know's this game, or doesn't, it's a sidescrolling platformer with a sword-weilding character who can attack enemies while facing them head-on, jumping up and stabbing them from underneath, or jumping on top of them with a downward stab.

What I'm having the most trouble with is getting proper hit detection, I've tried fooling it by a collision while pressing a direction (like down for the downstab), but that is really just messing with the character object's natural animations and it's just a mess...

It would really just solve a lot of my problems if there were a way to dectect a collision coming from a direction or series of directions. Is this possible? I'm sure others have made Super Mario game clones, how did you get the character object to stomp on the enemies properly?

Thanks very much

I think there may be an extension that does this, but one thing I always used to do in the old TGF days is make an active object that sat invisibly on top of the character object and corresponded exactly to that part of them - say on Mario games, I would have a small active object that corresponded to Mario's feet when he jumped, or on a Zelda game, I would have a seperate object that followed Link's sword. Then, all you have to do is test the collisions on the invisible extra object. This works really well if you do it right, because it means enemies only get hurt by the blade of the sword, and not if they walk into your back while you're doing the animation. :)

Hope that helps!

I will try that, thank you!

Do you (or anyone else for that matter) know anything of an extension to do that natively?

Possibly the Detector object by LIJI.

Is that in the LIJI bonus pack?

Yes, it is.