actors bouncing problem (physical response)

[j2graves]

Hi all, I haven't been around in a while. Most of you probably don't remember me. I was on this forum back in 2007-2009. Well I'm back now, and I'm ready to make me a game!... but I'm having some difficulties... Whenever my main character actor collides with the tile actor, he bounces up and down.

If I remember correctly, in an earlier version of GE, all I had to do to prevent bouncing was to set the first value in physical response to zero. This version of GE won't allow me to set that value to zero. I did eventually find a number where the actor stopped bouncing. So then I added an animation to the actor... and then it started bouncing again. Note that I did not change the physical response settings, just the animation. Is GE programmed to handle actors of different sizes differently when it comes to physical response? If so, how can I make more consistent, desired results? Would it be better if I used an alternate collision system, and if so, could you show me how to make one?

[Game A Gogo]

Good to see you're back!

Are you entering these values 1,1,0,0 ? make sure it's on "Event Actor Only" for the actor to be "moved" (or rather stopped)

[j2graves]

I figured out what the problem was. I was trying to set the first value to zero when I should have been changing the third value.

I was trying to do 0,1,1,1
when I should have been doing 1,1,0,1

Even so, I've been experimenting with what I did wrong, and I've found that by changing the first value to a larger number, I can stop the bouncing, but have very little friction, allowing me to use xvelocity to move the actor instead of having to use x.
It's funny the stuff you can learn from mistakes.