Melee attacks on game salad

Rabittsfootgames

Okay, so Im making a platforming game, only I'm trying to make an actor able to punch and kick, its the only thing left for me to do before my game can be finished.


Thanks, Liam.

calvin9403

you will need an animation of the actor

and when the attack button is pressed and ....

do something

HoneyTribeStudios

Also you might want to think about collision areas. I find the magnitude function to be useful. As more often than not just using a collision rule won't feel right in the context of one character hitting another. i.e collision areas are circles, squares or rectangles but your character animations will probably be human/alien/monster/animal shaped etc

The_Gamesalad_Guru

Hmmmm @honeytribestudios I would more interested in hearing how you use magnitude.

3xL

I think a combination of magnitude and collision can play a role as well..

What if an enemy is like dhalsim. Long arms or legs? Throws a kick from far?

Or

Create collision boxes for enemies and heroes and constrain them to their bodies. Kinda like MUGEN.

FallacyStudios

For the simplest way to do it. You just need an animation for when they press the attack button and to make a boolean that is set to true when the attack button is pressed and resets itself to false by the time the animation ends. When that boolean is true than collision with your character either does damage or kills it

HoneyTribeStudios

@FryingBaconStudios - Sure, well it's nothing too complicated. Just a straight swap of a collision with a magnitude condition. So you'll see in the image below the the hazard needs to be within 180 pixels of the hero before the hero can be hit.

The_Gamesalad_Guru

@honeytribestudios that's so simple it's brilliant! I'll be using that in my runner for sure!