Prevent movement while crouching

[Kaiseto]

I've been fooling around with MMF2 for a little over a week now, trying to get down the basic framework for a platformer, and it's all going pretty well. Unfortunately, when I make the character crouch, I'd like him to be unable to move left or right, and I just can't get it to work.

I've tried making it stop him and set his position back a pixel when pressing both down and right/left. All it does is cause him to slide backwards slowly. Likewise, setting it to just stop his movement causes him to move forward slowly.

Is there some way to completely stop horizontal movement when the character is crouching?

[wizkidweb]

What kind of movement are you using; the Platform Movement Object, the built-in, or a custom fastloop one?

[Kaiseto]

Well, at the moment, I'm using the platform movement, but if there's a better way, by all means, please tell.

How do fastloops work?

[KuroiNeko]

You could have an invisible object go to the center of your character when you crouch, then as long as you're crouched, you get moved to the center of that object.

Creating custom movement is a little bit of work, but then you can control it a lot more, like add extra conditions.
*Press A
*Crouch is not set
=Move left.

[RickyRombo]

make a seperate movement thats static:

*Crouch is playing
-select movement 2 of player

*Whatever key gets the player out of the crouch (eg. up, or any key)
-select movement 1 of player

Hope this helps!

[artician]

I used a custom fastloop movement to set up different groups for each specific mechanic my character would use. Then I disabled or enabled each group as it was needed. For example, my character uses a Guard state, but I dont want him to walk or jump while guarding, so when I enable the Guard through the press of a button, it also disables the "Move" and "Jump" groups (and then re-eneables them when the button is released).
You can set this up quite easily by making sure a group is not set to "Activate when Frame Starts". I found the examples for custom fastloop-based platform movement from both here and another site known as the Daily Click, which has a few good tutorials and articles on this.

Good luck!

[KuroiNeko]

You could also set the max speed of the object to 0 and back again in the actions for (un)crouching.

[Kaiseto]

In the effort of keeping it simple, I got it working by setting movement speed to 0 when the crouch animation was playing, and back to default when the "stopped" animation played.

Thanks for the help. I might try to fool around with more complex techniques later on, but for the moment, I'm investing most of my efforts into graphics and ideas for the game. Hopefully, for once in my life, I'll actually be able to finish a project that I start.

[Rabagast]

I recommend "The Platform Movement Object" It's very easy to use and very powerful.

[Kaiseto]

That's what I've been doing so far, and it's working out for the most part.

Thanks for all the suggestions everyone. I'm sure I'll be back with more questions in a day or two.