8 direction movement - no bouncing?

[Viewtiful]

Hi, I want to make it so when my character touches a wall he will stop moving, not bounce like in the default 8 direction movement. A good example would be in the old zelda games when you touch a wall link stops moving, but his animation still plays. Is this possible to do with the 8 direction movement?

[mojofltr]

This might not be the best example, but it's the first solution that came to mind:

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?bayzwloomuo

[Viewtiful]

Thanks, this works almost perfectly, I edited it so it supports diagonal directions as well as vertical and horizontal directions

[mojofltr]

It is still possible for the player caught in an obstacle if the player pushes a new direction before the active object has repositioned itself (it doesn't happen a lot, but it is a possibility). Perhaps, instead of repositioning based on which direction the player is... a better approach might be to set a flag based on the direction it was when it overlapped and reposition (and turn flag back off) that way. If you are not sure what I mean, I can post an example.

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Actually, I tried with flags and it still had issues.

I think the most fail safe method would be to add 4 detectors and go from there.

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?gghyngwdlhn

[Viewtiful]

I looked at your example with detectors and I changed it so there is no bounce for the sprite. All I did was change the authorized directions of the character to match the detector that was overlapping a wall. I haven't found any problems with it yet, but if someone does please let me know.

mfa file - http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?0lmtfjzmmme

[mojofltr]

I didn't like how the character would get stuck on a wall, so I played with it some more:

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?oztmmtli3ag

(Of course, now it doesn't use the built in 8-directional movement... but, oh well.)

[Viewtiful]

Wow, this is exactly what I was looking for. Thanks for all your help mojo!