[Tutorial]: Following a rope

[Hblade]

What inspired me to make this tutorial was I was watching a lets play of Mischief Makers, and decided.. hey it'd be cool to have a rope effect. So I came up with an incredibly simple way.

First: Download this rope graphic

Now lets begin! Add your rope graphic like so:

Now click the Path button and make a new path with these specs: (120 frames for this example)

Now, click the starting piece of the rope

Click to create a new dot along the rope. The more dots you have the higher accuracy. If you have a rope with a ton of curves your gonna need a lot of dots. :3

Now finally, make the actor you want to follow on the rope.

Now your complete Click game and watch the actor follow the rope.

If you want to get even more advanced and have the actor fall off the rope, then you'd add an event - path finish -

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directional_velocity=10;
ChangePath("Event Actor", "(none)", BOTH_AXIS);


For accurate speed after stopping, use a calculator to determine the actual velocity he was going. Or you could save his directional velocity to a variable then use that. For example, have a variable called PATHON, and do an if statement in draw actor where if PATHON is equal to 0, (make a new variable called VAR1). VAR1=directional_velocity. Now after the path finish, you'd do PATHON=1; then do directional_velocity=VAR1 then the change path code. That should keep his velocity.

Example:
I used an array for this. Create a new variable, click "yes" to array, make it a size of 2. Name it v. Place this code in Draw Actor of the actor following the rope.

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if (v[0]==0)
{
    v[1]=directional_velocity;
}


Now at path finish:

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v[0]=0;
directional_velocity=v[1];
ChangePath("Event Actor", "(none)", BOTH_AXIS);


Hope this helps

[CoFFiN6]

Thanx man. I love picture tutorials

[Hblade]

Thanks xD Coulda made a video one but I was to lazy.

[CoFFiN6]

Most of the time I'm browsing GE on my phone and it no play no video .but its cool .its the code I'm after muahaha(evil laugh)

[Hblade]

XD