How to do a velocity jump -[Tutorial]-

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How to do a velocity jump -[Tutorial]-

Postby Hblade » Tue Jun 29, 2010 3:15 pm

Do a velocity jump
      by Hblade
Ever want to do a velocity jump, where you jump higher the longer you hold down the jump button? Well now you can! Lets get started shall we? use the graphics provided in the download link for this tutorial.

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Alright, first thing's first. Set your background color to
    Red: 83
    Green: 103
    Blue: 146
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This is so we can actually see our character, and thus making it easier on our eyes :P Good, now that you have the art set downloaded, lets start :D First, make your player. You can see through him, but thats okay. Now that you made him, go to draw actor - put this code in.
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if (yvelocity<4)
{
    yvelocity+=.08;
}

This will limit his falling speed. Now that you have that add your Tile actor, and draw some tiles! :D
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Now add a collision, any physical response will do, no need for fancy stuff since your just learning how to do a velocity jump :D. Now that you added a collision effect, you need to make hum jump! For now lets do a single jump. make a variable called cjump
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Now that you made that variable, make a keydown Event.
    •Key Down
      •Z
      •Script Editor
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      if (cjump == 0)
      {
          yvelocity = -9;
          cjump = 1;
      }

Now, go back to your Draw Actor script, and add this to it:
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if (yvelocity>=1)
{
    cjump = 1;
}

This means that when you start to actually fall, the character wont be able to jump in the middle of the air that way you can avoid issues such as you walk off the edge of a cliff and your still able to jump. Since our yvelocity is adding by .8 each time, its good to have it actually say if its greater thatn or equal to 1, that way it wont glitch and keep you unable to jump even if on the ground. This happens as a result of Draw Actor trying to constantly add .8 to the falling speed, which is making yvelocity spike from 0 to .8 and the physical response stops the character so you dont notice it.
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Re: How to do a velocity jump -[Tutorial]-

Postby Hblade » Tue Jun 29, 2010 4:07 pm

Do a velocity jump
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        Part 2

Part 2, limiting the jump

Now make a collision event with the tiles
    •Collision
      •Top Side of tiles
      •Script Editor
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      cjump = 0;


Good, your almost done! :D Now, last but not least, make a key up event.
    •Key Up
      •Z
      •Script Editor
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      if (cjump == 1)
      {
          yvelocity = yvelocity/2;
          cjump = 2;
      }

Now test it out! :D Hold down the Z button for a longer jump, or tap it for a smaller jump.

Now for the jump animation
Go back to you Draw Actor once again, and add this in it
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if (yvelocity>=2)
{
    ChangeAnimation("Event Actor", "dude_jump", FORWARD);
}

Your draw actor code should now look like this:
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if(yvelocity<4)
{
    yvelocity+=.8;
}
if (yvelocity>=1)
{
    cjump = 1;
}
if (yvelocity>=2)
{
    ChangeAnimation("Event Actor", "dude_jump", FORWARD);
}


Now go to the script editor of your collision - top side of tiles, and add this
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ChangeAnimation("Event Actor", "dude", FORWARD);


Now last but not least, we make the animation change when he jumps, so go to your key down Z and put this in between the if statement
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ChangeAnimation("Event Actor", "dude_jump", FORWARD);


Its complete :D!

Download and test it for yourself if you'd like. Use the arrow keys to move in this demo and Z to jump. If this was too complicated, please let me know right away.
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Re: How to do a velocity jump -[Tutorial]-

Postby DST » Tue Jun 29, 2010 7:54 pm

good job noticing the canjump enable on the ground vs. speed thing.
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Re: How to do a velocity jump -[Tutorial]-

Postby Hblade » Tue Jun 29, 2010 8:02 pm

I think it was you that told me that, or was it Skydereign? :/
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Re: How to do a velocity jump -[Tutorial]-

Postby Bee-Ant » Wed Jun 30, 2010 2:54 am

Excellent tutorials...
Completed with screenshot and demo, very nice :D
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Re: How to do a velocity jump -[Tutorial]-

Postby Hblade » Wed Jun 30, 2010 4:50 am

Thanks ^.^
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Re: How to do a velocity jump -[Tutorial]-

Postby Toasterman » Sat Jul 24, 2010 4:50 am

Very useful! Thanks!
This clears up issues I'd been pretty much been stumped with! :D
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Re: How to do a velocity jump -[Tutorial]-

Postby Orlando911 » Thu Dec 09, 2010 8:38 pm

thank you for the explanation,

I got confused, for the change intimation when the player jump,

just explain this to me plz,

what I know, I have to picture of the player, when playerRight, and PlayerLeft,

I used the playerRight, in the beginning , then when I move it to the left, I want to show the PlayerLeft ,
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Re: How to do a velocity jump -[Tutorial]-

Postby skydereign » Thu Dec 09, 2010 11:39 pm

There is a function called ChangeAnimation(). You have to use this on the event that moves the player. These questions are pretty basic, you really should check out the built in tutorials and the tutorials section. They'll give you enough grounding to learn effectively from the forum.
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Re: How to do a velocity jump -[Tutorial]-

Postby Orlando911 » Fri Dec 10, 2010 8:16 pm

thank u , I got it,

everything clear in the tutorial in the product ,
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Re: How to do a velocity jump -[Tutorial]-

Postby happyjustbecause » Wed Aug 03, 2011 3:23 pm

I know this is an old tutorial, but I'm new and trying to get the hang of everything. I got the velocity jump to work, but I'm not sure how to implement both left and right jumping animations . But I had my animation changing when I was walking left and right before, but now it won't. And I'm not completely sure how to do the script editor to allow both animation changes. :mrgreen: :?:

I'm attaching my game in hope of someone checking it out and seeing what is wrong with the animation of walking. I can see it is still there, and when I jump and mess around with the arrowkeys it will occasionally switch to the walking animation. So anyways, any help of this would be greatly appreciated. I'm still learning the ropes, but I hope to get a grasp on the program! I will give a point to anyone that helps if that encourages them at all.
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Re: How to do a velocity jump -[Tutorial]-

Postby Hblade » Wed Aug 03, 2011 6:29 pm

OH! Change "FORWARD" in the change animation to "NO_CHANGE"
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Re: How to do a velocity jump -[Tutorial]-

Postby happyjustbecause » Thu Aug 04, 2011 10:02 pm

Ahhh, Thank you, I was thinking it was probably just something simple. :D

Thanks Again for the tutorial in the first place, and for the added help!
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Re: How to do a velocity jump -[Tutorial]-

Postby Hblade » Sat Aug 06, 2011 3:23 am

lol your welcome. did it help? o3o
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Re: How to do a velocity jump -[Tutorial]-

Postby marcus » Mon Feb 17, 2014 6:46 pm

Hello,

I think this script is awesome, thanks a lot Hblade! But I trying to do a little improve/modification and don't know how to do it: I wish the character gain speed as it falls, especially if you are jumping from a higher platform - it's possible?

I posting my game for example (it is in the very begining, no sprite animations there); use the arrows to move left and right, spacebar to jump. There's some glitches with the colision on plataforms too, but I'm sure there's nothing to do with the script of this thread - but if someone can help, it will be nice! The glitches is: just walk to the right and the character will "climb" the plataforms, no need to jump; if you stop near the edge, the character will move until he falls; and the character can be stuck in the plataform by his (big and weird) hair.



Thanks for the attention and sorry for the bad english,
=]

UPDATE

I think I make it work! Probably it isn't the better code, but is working. First, I declared a variable name tempy, then I added this to Player -> Draw Actor

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if <yvelocity>=0>
{
    tempy=yvelocity;
}
// if the character is ascending, the yvelocity is stored in the tempy variable

if <tempy<=yvelocity>
{
    yvelocity+=0.5;
}
// if your yvelocity starts to decline (the script check this comparing the stored yvelocity with the actual yvelocity), you get down more fast (increasing your yvelocity)
// the 0.5 is a trial-and-error that works best for my case, you should experiment with little increments


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