Gravity issue

GingerBGames

Hello GS'ers,
I know how to add gravity to a scene. How do I have an actor that moves left/right, not be affected by the gravity. After adding "Y" gravity, my actor just heads south of the border. I tried adding an accelerate rule to off set it, but that didn't work. How do I do that? Thanks for helping.

Stryfe01

I have a similar issue. I followed the instructions given and end up with my actor floating into lala land when he starts to cross a gap between buildings. Can anyone help with this?

GingerBGames

That sounds like a good plan, why didn't I think of that? It seems too easy, gr,r,r,r,r,r,r. Thanks.

Ignis

tshirtbooth said:
Best thing to do is not use gravity!

Just add accelerate down to everything you want to have gravity (relative to scene)

Definitely a valid solution that countless chefs have used, but it would be nice to use gravity... and yet not use it in some cases. I would certainly like a boolean actor attribute in a future release, under Physics or Motion, that says "affected by gravity" or similar, just like the checkbox in the Particles behavior. That way we could control gravity on a per-actor basis, without checking off "moveable" which obviously restricts all movement, including rotation.

Perhaps this post should be added to the Suggestions forum. In any case, not a huge deal since the Accelerate solution seems to work almost perfectly, but hopefully we get on/off gravity by version 1.0.