Why is he using his knees as a skateboard?

[Aloan]

How do you tell MMF2 that you don't want 8 directions for your platform movement? Because of this when you crowch down you shoud stay down. But press left or right and the character starts sliding with his knees on the floor. This is Madness. What gives?
Oh, just so you know, I've tryed many codes in the event editor, but none worked. (Like: repeat while pressing a key, ignore control, stuff like that, nothing worked) And I was so happy to make the character duck or crowch, but for him to slide like he's using his knees as a skateboard is not real! I wonder if someone has a proven concept)
Thanks.

[Shawn]

If you add add a flag to disable the horizontal movement while holding down, that should stop any sort of sliding.

But, I use that for custom platform movement like in DavidN's tutorial.

It would help to know what exactly you are doing for platform movement? PMO? Custom? Built in Platform movement?

[Aloan]

Thanks Shawn. I'm using the custom platform movement. I'll see that I upload the .mfa to my page later tonight when I'm home for you to take a look. I am developing using the simplest most basic (well for me they are awesome) concepts built within MMF2. No variables, no advanced stuff.

[RickyRombo]

I had that problem too. I think I just deleted the crouch since it wasn't needed...

I'll look at the mfa too. But I have an idea... try "Animation Crouch is playing" -Set speed to 0 Stop or set Max speed to 0 or something... I bet you tried that already I'll just wait for the mfa... (dot dot dot) (dot dot dot) (dot dot I guess I'm just a little tired today dot)

[Aloan]

I'll try that Rick! I plan to bring some flying enemies to swoop towards the head of the hero, so crowching will be a nice feature. Another nice thing to come up with and so far all I'm thinking of is using a second clone for that is the ability to slide while laying down. You know like when you wanna get past a narrow passage of a cave, you lay down and move slowly thru that small passageway to the other side. (but that's a second challenge)

[Aloan]

Here's the mfa for the crowch down problem. Crowch and press right or left and the character slides. What gives?
Thnxs, download here:

http://www.aloanmoreira.com/skateleg.mfa

[Nifflas]

Here's one possible solution!

[Aloan]

Rycky and Nifflas, that's it! you both got it. It worked! even though I uploaded Nifflas's mfa and saw the wonder he did, I had to figure out that the crowching animation had to be actually playing for the code to work. I had mine loop unchecked. Weird. Only after I ticked loop, did it work. I was like, how come his work and mine doesn't, then I did some digging in and saw it. Great thought Nifflas! Thnkx for returning the fixed mfa!