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[Rat Casket]

So basically I want to make this darn cube rotate after its center point passes a ledge, and then fall off. I can push it off ledges just fine as is, but it would just look nicer if it tipped and carried itself off. I don't need any fancy physics or anything aside from making it tilt after its center passes the edge of a platform, tilt 90 degrees towards the direction of the fall, and fall down.

I haven't the slightest clue on how to do this. Any assistance is greatly appreciated.

[Rat Casket]

Meant to post this in technical.

[Ant]

Well the first thing to keep in mind is that rotating anything close to lofi sprites ingame using image_angle looks rather ugly, so visually you're best off drawing your own rotated sprites.

It's pretty simple to detect if an object is half way off a ledge. First you check to see if the object is actually on the ledge and then you check a collision with an offset, if there's no collision then you know it's close to the edge. So for example this will check if the object is 6 pixels away from falling off to the right:

Code:

if place_meeting(x,y+1,oFloor) and !place_meeting(x+6,y+1,oFloor)

You could use a while a statement to get the exact amount of pixels, but I don't think you'll need to be super precise for what you're after.

[Rat Casket]

Much more simple than I was expecting, then. Thanks man!

[Rat Casket]

Well let me bug you with this. I've got some basic code in for the block now and it does what I need it to do. Which is fall.

Where about in this code would I need to drop in the rotation?

Code:

x += xSpeed;
y += ySpeed;

ySpeed += gravSpeed;

//vertical collision//
if (place_meeting(x,y+ySpeed,oBlocker)){
    ySpeed = 0;
    onGround = true;
}else{
    onGround = false;
}

//horizontal collision//
if (place_meeting(x+xSpeed,y,oBlocker)){
    while (!place_meeting(x+sign(xSpeed),y,oBlocker)) x += sign(xSpeed);
    xSpeed = 0;
}