Custom Character Movement

[Martin_Bodger]

I don't want to use the basic one because when he collides with background he starts to shake likes he is a washing machine.o_0

I've heard of it and how to do it, but i can never get my head around it.

I've only known TGF long enough to know all the basics and some advanced stuff but custom movement i can't grasp properly.

My game is a top down view so it should be pretty easy.

Objects:

Top half of character (Body)

Lower half of character (Legs)

Collision detector (so that when his feet collide with a wall he stops)

The collision detector is always postioned at the feet of the character.

I know when you make custom movements that the character doesnt shake when it collides with an object.

Giving them the right speeds i can not figure out for nothing, its so annoying when i'm trying to do something that i should know by now.>____________<

I know this should be on the TGF2 board but no on is ever on their and i really need some help.

[Martin_Bodger]

Helloooo!?!??

[Gerblegod7]

You'd use a fastloop based movement. I don't have MMF2 at the moment so I can't recreate the exact code you'd need but it goes along these lines:


Always: Start loop move "up"
On loop up set position of detector to position - 1.


If the detector is not overlapping an obstacle at the end of the loop then you can keep it's position, but if it does overlap you can move it back before the next frame so it won't "shake".

orry for not being more specific. I might have an example of how to do this on my other COM.

[BrandonC]

Fastloop movement is sort of a bad name for movement that doesn't always require fastloops. It's usually just called Custom Movement.
http://www.create-games.com/article.asp?id=1641

[Random]

Nice article

There are indeed plenty of articles and examples for this. Just dig around a bit and you'll find more than enough to work with.