help with climbing

[colin]

please help ive been trying for three days and have fin almost given up. my charcter jumps and when lands on a moving platform moves horiz using dectors which are set always with him throught the screen. how do i incorp climbing up and down a ladder.
any help is welcome

[nivram]

What kind of movement are you using?

Marv

[Shawn]

Well I don't know how you're handling the moving platforms in your game. However, I'm working on a Platformer I'm hoping I can have done in time for the Gamebuilder Halloween contest. In that game, I used the PMO and I came up with a system to make ladders you can climb up and down on. I might release the source code, but not until after it's done, and it's too complicated for me to type out what all I did.

To give you an idea on how I did it, I used active objects for ladders. The Player has a static movement, and then I added a second movement using the Eight Direction movement, only I disabled everything except the up and down directions. Then when the player overlaps the ladder, I pause the PMO and switch the player object's movement from static to the altered eight direction movement. When the player is not overlapping, it reverts back to static movement, then unpauses the PMO.

It's a bit more involved than that, but that is a general breakdown for what I did.

[colin]

thanks for your reply im using the PMO movement as in the dector handles all the movement for gravity and horz movement and my char is set to it as per custom platform movement tutorial.
The platformer your working on cert has the ans hope you do well in the gamebuilder contest. i hope you can eventully release the soure code as it could help other begginers like me.
thanks for your help

[Shawn]

thanks for your reply im using the PMO movement as in the dector handles all the movement for gravity and horz movement and my char is set to it as per custom platform movement tutorial.
The platformer your working on cert has the ans hope you do well in the gamebuilder contest. i hope you can eventully release the soure code as it could help other begginers like me.
thanks for your help

Yeah I do plan on making it available. Just need to finish it and after the contest I can post the source file.

[colin]

sorry nivram im still new to the forum and just reilized i had to reply to you there is two dectors same as the in the tutorial DNX-FASTLOOPPLATMOVEMENT written by david N are you familiar with this?