Moving Platforms and the PMO

[Corlen]

How would one pull off moving platforms, especially horizontal moving platforms, with the platform movement object where the player and the platform are synced? I know to test if the player was standing on one I'd probably need some sort of bottom detector object attached to the player. I have a sneaking suspicion that vertical moving platforms would be a piece of cake but the horizontal ones will be a nightmare.

[DaveC]

check the example that comes with the extension.

[Corlen]

The moving platform in that example is kinda glitchy though.

[Shawn]

Not sure exactly, some ideas would be to manually adjust the player's x coords to match the speed of the platform when they are standing on top of it. Platform moving right and player is standing on it, Player's X coord + 3 (or whatever).

I didn't look at the example so not sure about that method. Possibly, you could have it so that when the player is standing on a platform and platform is moving right, Player is holding right input. So, in other words, set them to walking and adjust the speed to match the platform (and obviously don't play any walking animations unless they are actually moving). Then if you move right while the platform is moving right, you can make the player speed up a bit to move. I have no idea how buggy that would be, I'm sure there's things to be sorted out, but it's an idea.

Horizontal isn't so bad, vertical platforms I never could get right without being buggy, but I'm sure there is a way.

[DaveC]

newplat.mfa

I made this a few weeks ago for someone.. it would be extremely easy to add in horizontal platforms too.

[Ls2]

Corlen,

You can use additional X velocity. When the main character collides with the moving platform, you set the additional velocity.

[Caesar]

Made this a while ago. May not be the best of examples, but give it a try: https://www.dropbox.com/s/i2fzvyogzc...ample.mfa?dl=0

[Emerson3]

Guys! I can't thank y'all enough. Both examples are fantastic!!!

[rosse119]

I would like the same thing so it's great to see 2 examples already here. Thanks DaveC and Caesar.