Falling damage with Plattform movement object?

[Attan]

Simple question. What is the best way of making the choosen object take falling damage if it lands on an obstackle at a certain speed?

[DavidN]

Are you interested more in how far it's fallen, or what speed it's travelling when it gets there? (Or are the two roughly equivalent?)

You could continually set some value of the object to the current Y position as long as it isn't moving down the way, then subtract the current Y position from that value once its Y-speed is equal to zero again at the bottom of a fall and calculate the falling damage based on that difference.

[Attan]

That would work... but it would be better if the pmobject had a "collisions with ground" additional to just "standing on ground". Then you could just compare with the Y-speed.

[Nifflas]

Collision with ground would be the same as standing with ground, except that it's triggered only once. Those features are not added, because it's so easy to use "standing on ground" together with "one action when event loops", or if you prefer, have a flag that toggles whenever the player is in the air or standing on the ground (basically, if player is in air, set flag to on, if player is standing on ground, set flag to off and check for fall damage). It's really simple, and doesn't take more than one or two events.

[Attan]

Standing on ground + Y Velocity >= 500 does not work for me. Seems logical, cuz if it has speed downwards it's not standing on ground. Do you get it to work? in that case i've missed something obvious..
Anyway, i probably can fix it with some "Was recently falling in high speed" counter that resets a little after the actual fallingspeed.

[Popcorn]

* alterable value A < Y velocity
- set alterable value A to Y velocity

* collision with ground
+ alterable value A > 500
- kill player

* collision with ground
+ alterable value A < 500
-set alterable value A to 0

[Attan]

Thanx!! Just what i needed! Worked great! When the game is finished you will be in the "thanks to:" list "Thanks to: Popcorn, for helping me with the fallingdamagecode."

(ps. you too nifflas "for helping me with a whole bunch of codes")