uneven terrain in a custom platformer engine.

[deadpixels]

i've programmed a engine using the "custom platform movement" tutorial from here:
http://www.clickteam.com/eng/learning_resources.php

however, it lacks the ability to walk around on uneven surfaces.
the detector treats any 1px increment in height as a wall, and forces you to jump up there to advance.


is there a workaround? or is there a way to set a tolerance,
or something similar for when it should treat something as a wall, or a surface to walk on?

[stAtrill]

Code a better engine yourself.

Or improve the engine to check itself before stopping the X movement.

Thats all i can think of.

[DavidN]

I've been meaning to add to that for a while - I've added ramps to my current platform game by adding two detectors at the side that stretch down to one pixel above the bottom of the collider object, so that a wall is only detected if the detector is over a backdrop (if the collider is over a backdrop but the detector isn't, then the object is bumped up a pixel, treating it as a ramp). That's the general idea.

[deadpixels]

this might be a bit to ask, but do you have an example?

[TreeHugger]

I read through the same tutorial a couple of days ago. Many thanks to DavidN, it really helped. Cheers dude!

[DavidN]

I'll do one up when I have a moment - I might be able to get it done at some point today.