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Hey guys, I was a part of this forum back in about 2006 or 2007, I was about 13 then, I'm surprised most of you are still active. XD Now I'm 18 and I'm attempting to pursue game-design as a career, but I gotta start somewhere so I'm creating an experimental game, mostly as a learning experience for myself to ease my right-brained mind into the realm of coding. I have good experience with modelling, texturing, mapping, etc. I just struggle to no end with code so hopefully I can learn alot within the next year or so. Anyway, I have started with a basic character who has the ability to walk and jump from left to right using the State Method following the tutorial on the Game Editor Wiki.
My Questions:
1. For aesthetic purposes, I want the player to bounce upon hitting the ground. The effect i get with a collision>physical response> both actors, is perfect when falling with the exception of the weird vibrations. What can I use to achieve a nice mild bouncy effect upon colliding with the top of a surface?
2. I want the view to follow the player with a slight delay. I can't do this by parenting I'm pretty sure, so how can I set it up with a timer in script editor if necessary? Basically, you press the right key, the player moves and about a second and then the view follows, just for aesthetics.
Thank you guys!

For the second thing, you need to make it so the viewfollows the character after a certain amount of movement yes? so use...

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if(view.x+(view.width/2)<player.x-5)view.x+=speed;
if(view.x+(view.width/2)>player.x+5)view.x-=speed;
if(view.y+(view.height/2)<player.y-5)view.y+=speed;
if(view.y+(view.height/2)>player.y+5)view.y-=speed;


the +/- 5 is the distance until the view starts following, the speed is the speed with which the view follows and the width/height is because the view coordianates start in it's top corner, adding half the width/height centres the location to the middle of the view.
There are more ways to do this, you should experiment with the code!

savvy

Thank you so much for the help savvy!