Bounce after smashing the enemy

Gallardo

What rule can I create which will make the player bounce up when he smashes an enemy? I want to give room to change the enemy sprite to that of a smashed one. Here is an example of what I want to do.

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/696/supermariojump.png/

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

bluebyu25

Just interpolate his self.position x to whatever you need for however high you want him to go. Just make it dependent on the rule firing when he jumps on your enemy (overlaps/collides with) or you could acclerate or change velocity, whichever.

Gallardo

Thanks for the quick response bluebyu25. Do you mean interpolate self.position y? I do not have a (overlaps/collides with) rule in my player which kills the enemy. I have:

Global boolean called jumpkill

Player"
If player.motion.linear.Y is less then -1
Change attribute game.jumpkill to true
Otherwise
Change attribute game.jumpkill to false

Enemy:
If actor collides with player
If game.jumpkill is true
Destroy

Thanks to BrynjeBamsen, this allows my player to kill the enemy only when I hit the enemy from the head.
But now how do I make player bounce up when I kill enemy?

scribblstudios

Use, when collides with enemy, change attribute self motion linear velocity y to 150 (the jump speed).
However make sure your actor also has some sort of gravity, otherwise you'll just keep moving up.

Hope this helps!

bluebyu25

Yes I did mean Y whuups!

Gallardo

Thank you for your contributions bluebyu25 and scibblestudios, I appreciate your help.

The reason that I am avoiding "collides with enemy" is that I want to destroy the enemy only when I hit his head and not when I run into him. Running into the enemy is also considered a collision. Establishing this specific preference, I am trying to create a rule which creates the bounce only after I have fallen on top of the enemy.

To satisfy my preference for how to destroy the enemy I would like to maintain the stated rules I have for the player and the enemy. How can I add the bounce to the player which is caused by destroying the enemy while maintaining these stated rules?

This is a tough one.