Making character jump?

allc1865

Hi. How do I make my character jump when I press a button. Not using my arrow keys, but a button that I have made and placed on my screen. Any help would be great! Thanks!

-Timo-

oh haha lol I also downloaded another jumping problem and this one was windows so I thought that was yours
I fixed the problem and added some thing you probably were going to ask later
https://www.dropbox.com/s/u67nw8fzgofd7nv/jumping.gameproj.zip
the problem was in the last rule
I added in otherwise
change self.motion.linear velocity.X to 0

-Timo-

here is the new download link https://www.dropbox.com/s/wo3us8np0g6hxod/jumping_2.zip
I agree with @fryingbaconstudios. you can learn like this but its not the best way. watch videos or download a full template and try to remake the walking/jumping part.
about your project. make sure you don't mess up self.jumping and game.jumping and make sure every rule does something. now you have if overlaps or collide with and then there was nothing...
maybe you also can use my template
https://www.dropbox.com/s/zvqrpujlvb4okb2/jumping walking and animation template.zip

GM_Pandagames

put attribute like arrows and then put selfmotionlinearvelocity to 500 or something. there is also a gamesalad free template

KillerPenguinStudios

Hey @allc1865,
We the community don't mind and ove helping but we do like to see that you have tried and looked before hand. There are PLENTY of tutorials that help with this as well as free templates. You just have to be willing to look and try things! Just saying, try and search the forums and web for answers before jumping right into asking.

-Timo-

Make a boolean attribute. (lets say we call it jumping) inside the button place a rule
When touch is pressed
Change game.jumping to true
Otherwise to false

Inside player if game.jumping is true
Change self.motion.linear velocity.y to 500(or something)

KillerPenguinStudios

Make a boolean attribute. (lets say we call it jumping) inside the button place a rule
When touch is pressed
Change game.jumping to true
Otherwise to false

Inside player if game.jumping is true
Change self.motion.linear velocity.y to 500(or something)

Don't hold his hand @timolapre! Our new friend needs to learn to walk on his own! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH ) I'm j/k!!!

But I want to add, don't forget to add gravity in to the equation. If not, then the character is just going to keep moving up, up, and away. Then you can say bye to the little guy! :-h hahhahha \:D/

allc1865

@KillerPenguinStudios, thanks for the advice!

-Timo-

Oh yes ofcourse @Killerpenguinstudios haha.
So you want to add a accelerate down in the player as well

allc1865

@timolapre1998, hi, thanks for your reply! It helped and I got my character to jump, but the floor goes down. I set up collisions already.
Thanks!

allc1865

The floor goes down as I jump, that is.

-Timo-

Then go in the floor and put his moveable off (and fixed rotation on) that should work

allc1865

Yes, those are off.
I made my background non movable as well.
When my character goes up, there's a black space under my background, and that's because I didn't stretch my background down that far. When I stretch it down more, the black space goes away because you see my background instead.
Anyway to fix this?

-Timo-

When the floor his moveable is off it cant move. So that is working now?
I am not sure what your new problem is. Can you try to explain better or maybe post an image/video?

KillerPenguinStudios

Hey @allc1865,
Kind of confused what your looking for. Sounds like you figured out how to get the black space to go away. What are you you exactly trying to get help with and accomplish???

allc1865

http://i40.tinypic.com/2hi3seq.png

allc1865

Sorry about the link. Which link do you choose to post the pic on the forum?

allc1865

But anyway, that black area under my background when my character jumps.

-Timo-

You need to post the direct link like this <@img src="directlink"> without @ and "directlink" is the link.
So

Where is your character? Maybe you placed the rules in the background and not in character?

allc1865

The character is visible at the moment. But he's in there. When he jumps thats what you see..i want to change that

allc1865

invisible, sorry.

-Timo-

maybe you want to send the project so I can look at it?
do you have any rule inside the background?
are you sure the background his moveable is turned off?
don't let it collide with the background
is that black background not a black actor? idk ^^

The_Gamesalad_Guru

I have a complete video on how to do run and jump.

allc1865

@FryingBaconStudios, thanks, but I'm trying to figure out why a black area is there when I do jump.

allc1865

@timolapre1998, I have no rules inside my background; it's not colliding and nothing is colliding with it; I have had moveable on my background checked and unchecked, but I get the same results; the black background is not an actor.
Thanks for all your help, but if you or anyone doesn't know what could be causing this, I'll figure it out soon enough. Thanks

KillerPenguinStudios

@allc1865 I would be willing to take a look at your project as well to see what you have going on. If you want to send either one of us your project, put it in a drop box and PM one of us with the share link to download the project file. I'm sure it's something silly! 8-}

-Timo-

Why did you made the player invisible? And where is the floor? Also invisible?
Are there more actors in the scene that we cant see? Post an image of the rules you have inside your character? Oe just send the file so one of use can look at it you know how? Put it in your dropbox then make it a zip file and send the download link. If you dont know how then watch a video on youtube

jamie_c

There are several movement and jumping tutorials available at my website, linked in my signature if you want to take a peek.

-Timo-

He fixed the jumping part but he has a new problem still a good tip

allc1865

It works!
But you can't really see it... so, here's the link. Hope you can see it.
http://imageshack.us/a/img547/1306/146p.png

-Timo-

nope I can't see it. but I am glad you fixed it

allc1865

This is much better.

allc1865

The image above is the rules placed in my actor.