Printable View
Ok, so I've searched the forums and all I can find is tutorials on grappling hooks and draw line, etc. and no answer to my question.
My question is: How can you make a character grab a rope and swing. I don't need physic perfect swing or anything. Just something like the old pitfall games. A rope is swinging and a character jumps onto it and is able to climb up and down it and jump off.
Please help, because I just can't seem to find anything =(
Well you can't do it with the standard Platform Movement. You would either need to use a custom movement or somehow adapt the Platform Movement Object.
I'll try to make an example. I would advise others to try too because, to tell the truth, I'm not very reliable when it comes to making examples.
it would be appreciated. I thought I was an advanced user of MMF until I go to design a swinging rope and I sort of hit this roadblock. I am thoroughly displeased. =(
An example for this was created some time ago.
Link
Well he doesn't really want a grappling hook example. He wants to have a free-standing rope. It shouldn't be too hard (that is unless u want the rope to be rope-like)...
I have time now; I'll make an example.
yeah, I'm not looking for physic-perfect rope mechanics, I just want a swinging rope to which you jump onto and jump off of. Thanks!
*Whew*
I'm still working on it. My mind is not working right now, so the math is a little tricky.
I got the swinging rope movement, that was easy. I then tried using the Sticky object, but that doesn't allow me to make the character move up and down.
Now I'm trying to do it the good old-fashioned way: expressions and algorithms. :/
I've been working on it as well, but I can't really get the desired effects. My character, it seems, has a 50/50 percent chance of actually sticking to the rope or he just flies straight through it. =( And then I can't get him to crawl up or down.
No wonder Andy, I had to create it like the disney guys! Totally animated!. The only thing that still keeps us from achieving what we want is not being able to go up, down and let go of the rope whenever we want, like "Super Pitfall" for example. Heck, even the atari 2600 could do it! Maybe clickteam will make this possible in mmf3
Have you tried the "Platform Swing" Object?
stephen1980