Pull Playercharcter up a Ledge with a nifty Animation

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

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CABV1...eature=mh_lolz

I tried it with this:

http://imageshack.us/f/507/testpic.png/

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

That would be awesome! :D

Zeb was a great game and well put together! I thought it was included in the example files with MMF, but not sure of that.

It is. Game Examples and it is too large for uploading here, plus in the folder there are three files.

Marv

heres the link, seems broken? http://www.clickteam.co.uk/downloadcenter.php?i=118

im gonna keep looking for a working version

EDIT:

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

Oh man thank you soo much. ^^
I think many links are broken from the clickteam site. I dunno if that's just coincidence or on purpose. ;)

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

So anything on Zeb yet? Or maybe someone has a solution for me? ^^

i been looking for a while cant find it anywhere :S ill make a little game and show how it done it

ill have it uploaded in about an hour

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 ).

Hm... I'll try that out. It sure will take some time, but maybe I can alter just the view hot spot in the climbing animation.

currently making \ editing an old file, just to give u an idea how ive done it in the past

Thank you soo much ^^

im not far from it being done, just need to pick my parents up from the airport in amin, but ill upload tonight :)

Here, i made an example of my suggested method.
Use Arrow keys to controll Character.

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.

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It is. Game Examples and it is too large for uploading here, plus in the folder there are three files.

Marv

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I can't seem to find it the examples folder?

Im pretty sure the Zeb example only comes with TGF, along with a bunch of other classic examples.
As far as i know ChockBreak is the only example which comes with MMF2.

At last I got it!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qsia-ZnR4O4

A lot of trial and error, but thanks for all the help! I would appreciate your file, Ryan, maybe I can learn from it, too. :)

Oh yeah, I have a nasty Soundbug (?). My footstep sound is played perfectly in MMF2. Though, my Bomb_Explode sample is cutted after 1,5 seconds, alltough the mp3 is 3 seconds lons. Any Ideas what happened here? Even when I play it via the sample editor after I loaded it, it only plays 1,5 secods. :(

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I can't seem to find it the examples folder?

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You can get Zeb from here John:

http://www.clickteam.co.uk/downloadcenter.php?i=118

Gogeta. That looks great. Any chance for the mfa?

Thanks,

Marv

that example in the video looks good.

not 100% sure but i think the sound files trying to play itself more than once, there should be an option to make the sound un-interruptable. ill upload that example shortly, just need to do some bits to it. works been calling me up so i been abit behind. :)

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the link to download zeb via the old games factory doesnt work any more :(

Hey marv, let me get the code optimised a bit. Right now it really looks like a mess. I'm willing to share it later, no problem.
And yeah, the old Download link is broken, Marv.

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Originally Posted by Ryan9171

that example in the video looks good.

not 100% sure but i think the sound files trying to play itself more than once, there should be an option to make the sound un-interruptable. ill upload that example shortly, just need to do some bits to it. works been calling me up so i been abit behind. :)

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the link to download zeb via the old games factory doesnt work any more :(

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Hi Ryan. I was just there, so the link is working. Why is it working for me and not you? Strange indeed.

Edit: Ah, I see. I didn't click through. Sorry to everyone.

Marv

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Originally Posted by Gogeta

Hey marv, let me get the code optimised a bit. Right now it really looks like a mess. I'm willing to share it later, no problem.
And yeah, the old Download link is broken, Marv.

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No problem.

Hey King_Cool. That mfa was sweet indeed and thanks.

Marv

I know this is a very old thread, but could I ask a question that pertains to this subject at hand? I really enjoyed the mfa file from King_Cool on ledge grabbing. However, could someone make a file that describes how to do legde grabbing with a custom platform engine instead of just platform movement? I have the collider and it has a gravity value and a horizontal value. I'm trying to reconstruct a platform engine similar to Earthworm Jim. However, I just can't seem to get ledge grabbing and pulling up down.