Jumping on top of as a means of destruction

lowski

How would I make my player actor destroy an enemy actor by jumping on top of it? I'm a bit perplexed as my enemy must also destroy my player if they collide on the horizontal plane. I searched the forums to see if anyone else had this problem but I found none.

AfterBurnett

You COULD use an invisible actor that is skinnier than your enemy sprite but taller... this way when the enemy walks into you, you die but if you jump on top you would trigger the skinner actor first. You'd need to obviously set them up to follow each other etc but should work... bit of a cheat though, must be another way...

lowski

Wouldn't that just destroy the invisible actor and leave the enemy to destroy my player as he falls back down?

lowski

Just found what I needed thanks to a video by tshirtbooth

scitunes

I have a demo on this as well. see my profile

iPhoneDevForMe

Which video? Im interested in this solution as well!

lowski

Tshirtbooth's video is here: http://tinyurl.com/22u4ufh

but I actually found a better solution with Scitune's demo, although I am having one issue. The problem is that when my player jumps on top of the enemy both are destroyed. How can I make it so that my player bops the enemy on the head and lands safely down to the platform?

AfterBurnett

lowski said:
Wouldn't that just destroy the invisible actor and leave the enemy to destroy my player as he falls back down?

Not if you had a boolean set up like EnemyDeath, both could be destroyed when changed to true.

lowski

POLYGAMe said:
Not if you had a boolean set up like EnemyDeath, both could be destroyed when changed to true.

How would I execute this? (I'm a bit of an amateur)