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A 2d game engine written in C
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Old school ladders #7

Open gomutako opened 1 month ago

gomutako commented 1 month ago

Hi,

Any plans to add support for old school ladders? I mean like these ones

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I've tried to add support modifing the collision map but it's just buggy and not that fluid.

I'm in love with your work! Thanks for sharing it

phoboslab commented 1 month ago

How exactly these would behave is very game specific; I don't think it makes sense to support this type of "collision" directly in the engine.

Without thinking about it too much, here's how I would do it:

  1. Create an invisible, resizable entity ladder and position it to cover the graphics.
  2. Set your player to check against this entity. E.g. player->check_against = ENTITY_GROUP_ITEM, ladder->group = ENTITY_GROUP_ITEM.
  3. In your player->touches() check for other->type == ENTITY_TYPE_LADDER and set a flag self->player.on_ladder = true
  4. In your player->update() check for this flag and change the behavior accordingly. E.g. self->gravity = 0, set self->vel.y on up/down arrow.