Moar gravity help

[LeonCross]

Ok, I managed to beat my head against the wall enough to get it to semi work.

On character:

if (!touchingGround)
{
grav++;
this._y += grav;
}
else
{
grav = 0;
}

On objects:

onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
if ((_currentframe == 1) and (this.hitTest(_root.hero)))
{
_root.hero.touchingGround = (true);
}
}

The problem is, of course, that once a character touches one of these objects, gravity is switched off permanently.

I tried making a flat

touchingGround = (false);

on the character, but then the two just fight over who wins...and gravity eventually does.

I assume there is a simple way to make touchingGround = false if it's not getting constant feedback otherwise?

[wagnerben]

this is probably more than what you wanted, but this tut shows the full creating of a platformer game...so the jump & gravity code is in there

• 
  -Platform Tutorial- by FeindishDemon

  Click to view.

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  Game

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hope it helps

[Montycarlo]

Your code's flaw is that you're not detecting when the character 'falls' off from the edge of a platform.

A better approach would be to detect if the character is on the ground (or will be on the ground after the velocity +gravity is applied) and if so, set the y-velocity to 0.

[LeonCross]

touchingGround is a simple boolean variable that's either on or off.

Hm. I have no idea how I'd go about that. 0.o

[Yambanshee]

you have to either loop through all your objects your hitting against on the character, or put all the objects into 1 movieclip and hittest against that.

[LeonCross]

Design the level, then select them all and make them a movie? ^_^. That could work very well. Thanks for the advice!

I tried using a "while" command in place of for. Like "while blah blah code for hit test is true, touchingGround = true."

Unfortunately, flash didn't like that and crashed, so I'm guessing I don't understand the correct use of while. xD