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[rubna]

Great engine! I don't understand most of the base code, but it's great to work with!

I found another little bug though: when you walk against a wall and you keep walking against it, your hspd will be 0.8 in one frame and then 0 the in the next. You don't see it, but it will mess up your animations.

It's pretty easy to work around, but I thought I'd let you know in case you have any intentions to do some debugging

Anyways, thanks for the great engine!

[lasttea999]

I found another little bug though: when you walk against a wall and you keep walking against it, your hspd will be 0.8 in one frame and then 0 the in the next. You don't see it, but it will mess up your animations.

That might tend to happen! Doesn't the hspd oscillation (going back and forth from 0.8 to 0) problem depend on how one implements animations, though?

For example, in one of my games the oscillation wouldn't affect a player's animation because it depends not on hspd but on the keyboard keys held.

[Keops]

I'm working on a platformer game and this could be useful, but I can't open the files. I have GameMaker Studio. Is this engine for a legacy version? Can it be opened/used in GM Studio?

I'm chugging along with help from some YouTube videos but I'd love to try this out.

In any case if anyone know a useful GM Studio Platformer tutorial/guide, I'd love to check it out.

[emacs]

This was made for GM7 I believe, you can try porting it to Studio if you want (this guide is pretty helpful).

[RyanHuggins]

This was made for GM7 I believe, you can try porting it to Studio if you want (this guide is pretty helpful).

Considering I just starting using GM: Studio, this is actually some pretty cool information (most that I knew), but the thing about the order of events was really interesting.

[Klemm]

How would one make the jump bigger if you hold the button longer (like in Mario games or Give Up Robot2)?

Also, should use this engine/rules for enemy AI? I thought of just adding alarm based input on when to trigger movement like player does with keyboard, or is that stupid?

Thanks

[rubna]

How would one make the jump bigger if you hold the button longer (like in Mario games or Give Up Robot2)?

I usually add friction to the vspeed if the jump button isn't held and the player is going up. Code would be this:

Code:

if (vspd<0 && !keyboard_check(jumpbutton)) {vspd/=1.2;}

If the jump key is not pressed, the jump will stop going higher in a nice, smooth and fast motion. This isn't the way it's done in Mario, but I like this way better anyways

[Klemm]

How would one make the jump bigger if you hold the button longer (like in Mario games or Give Up Robot2)?

I usually add friction to the vspeed if the jump button isn't held and the player is going up. Code would be this:

Code:

if (vspd<0 && !keyboard_check(jumpbutton)) {vspd/=1.2;}

If the jump key is not pressed, the jump will stop going higher in a nice, smooth and fast motion. This isn't the way it's done in Mario, but I like this way better anyways

Thank you, that works like a charm.