How do I get the character to slide down surfaces, not stick to them?

**emberjed** · 22nd September 2012, 03:49 PM

So far I have it so that my character stops whenever he comes into contact with another object. But whenever he hits a wall from the side or something, he sticks to it rather than sliding down it. This, I think, is because he is told to simply stop rather than simply not being able to go any farther in the x direction. How can I fix this, though? I don't want to have to build my whole game around some lousy gimmick like this...

**Wolfking_Warrior** · 22nd September 2012, 11:11 PM

I've had something similar happen to me when I was experimenting.
Because the character/object changes its animation, it sticks a part of it into the wall.
You can probably alter the animation slightly to change this.

Another way is to set it so that when the object's X coordinate is above or below a number, or the frame, you can set it to stop, or bounce.

Hope this helps.

Wolfking_Warrior

**emberjed** · 3rd November 2012, 10:52 PM

On a related note, how can I allow a character (in a different game) with platform-style movement to jump and not go through objects but not stick to objects he hits from the bottom? There must be a way; I've seen platformers made on MF2.

**Wolfking_Warrior** · 3rd November 2012, 11:38 PM

You could have a sensor above the character, and when the sensor overlaps the block, and the player collides with the block, the player's Y coordinate locks. (You could have it set to static or something.)

By the way, do you have MMF2?

**Chaos** · 4th November 2012, 02:08 AM

There is also an extension for the full version of MMF2 called the Advanced Platform Movement - it is far superior than the built in platform movement, and doesn't cause any of the problems you are mentioning here. I don't think you can use it with the demo though. :/