ducking???

Hipster_Owl_Studios

hey can anyone tell me how to make my actor duck? i looked at some examples and i cant get it to work properly once i press the arrow key down he jst ducks and falls rite throught the ground kinda in a flashing motion and i already have a ground actor set already??

so i was wonderinf if theres another way to make an actor duck? and i also wanted add like an animation of him ducking is that possible and how? thanks!

LordTarantor

Dont worry edward I was in this same situation a couples of days ago.

First make sure you put in the ground a collide with actor type (the ducking actor)
Then make a boolean attribute and call it: ducking
In the ducking actor create an interger attribute and call it: OriginalHeight (and put a value here taking in consideration that this is the real size of that actor)

Then in the ducking actor make a Rule (Down)
when all... actor receives... key: down
add a change attribute: game.ducking to true
in otherwise add a change attribute: game.ducking to false

Then add another Rule (Ducking)
when all... attribute:game.ducking is true
change attribute: self.Size.Height to self.OriginalHeight / 2
change attribute: self.position.Y to self.Position.Y-(self.Size.Height /2)
in otherwise
change attribute: self.position.Y to self.Position.Y+(self.Size.Height /2)
change attribute: self.Size.Height to self.OriginalHeight

and that helped my situation I hope it help yours.

firemaplegames

I started a series of Platformer Tutorials a few months ago:

http://gamesalad.com/wiki/how_tos:platformer_tutorials

Ducking is the third tutorial in the series. Each one is built off of the previous one, but that should help you get going.

Joe

Hipster_Owl_Studios

THANKS! alot he ducks like a champ now