need help with platform game

[kainan]

i have no idea why but my charcter in the game im making keep falling through the floor if i jump in any direction and play its atack animation. How do i fix this?

[wizkidweb]

Well, what kind of platform movement are you using? Are you using the built-in movement, the Platform Movement Object, or a custom fastloop engine?

[kainan]

i think im using the built in movment

[Leed]

I had a similiar issue about 10 years ago in TGF 1.04. What I was doing wrong was quite simple.

Take a look at each frame of your animation sequence and ensure that the hotspot is in exactly the same x,y reference. If it is different then depending on the sequence being displayed you can have the affect of wriggling through a so called fixed layer.

Lee.

[kainan]

i have antoher problem now. My charcter still falls through floor if attack animation is playing and it collides with a enemy/active object while jumping. how can i fix this.

[Random]

This is a clear flaw in the built in platform movement. The best way to go about it is this - make a box the size of your character. Assign the platform movement to it.
Then by events make the box invisible and always -> position the graphic at the position of the box.

.. still waiting for the day when MMF finally has native support for custom bounding boxes :/

[kainan]

ok im kind of confused with the whole box idea and im new to this so can anydoy clarify what is stated above?

[Jacob]

Make an active object the size of your animated character.(i use a yellow box)

Assign the platform movemetn to it.

Then use an event
Always
Set position(animation) to 0,0 from yellow box

[TreeHugger]

Depending on how new you are this might help:
DavidN's Custom Platform Movement tutorial zip from the tutorials page: Tutorial Zip
It's definitely worth working through and building the example as you'll learn all the basics for building your own platform movement plus some other basics. It's marked as advanced but as long as you actually build the example while reading it you should be fine.

[Rabagast]

Or you can use the Platform Movement Object extension. It's very easy to use and it's working perfectly. DavidN's Custom Platform Movement is also very good, but I think it's a little bit difficult to start with if you are new to this.