How Do I Make Fall Damage?

SolarPepperStudios

Almost every platform game has some form of fall damage. How would I recreate that in GameSalad? I'm thinking along the lines of "If self.linearvelocity.y > X then when player collides with ground change game.lives to game.lives - X". Am I right?

OskarDeveloper

Yes

SolarPepperStudios

@OskarDeveloper Yes, that is how I do it? Wow... I actually got that right.

OskarDeveloper

I think so

SolarPepperStudios

@OskarDeveloper Well, I got it to work. It was a bit more complex thought. I basically had to also tell it when the player is choosing to jump or not because otherwise you would get hurt on the way back down or when you collided with any solid object that wasn't supposed to cause damage. I'll probably make a template for everyone.

OskarDeveloper

Oh great! That's very kind!

joshiwu

you can use your Y velocity, but more likely, you want to use distance fell. this thread is useless and needs to be deleted. here is a proper answer or two
http://forums.gamesalad.com/discussion/43484/determining-the-height

RThurman

Please don't post in old threads.

Thread closed.