Melee attacks on game salad

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• calvin9403 Member Posts: 3,186

  February 2012

  you will need an animation of the actor
  
  and when the attack button is pressed and ....
  
  do something
• HoneyTribeStudios Member Posts: 1,792

  February 2012

  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 Member Posts: 9,922

  February 2012

  Hmmmm @honeytribestudios I would more interested in hearing how you use magnitude.
• 3xL Member Posts: 676

  February 2012

  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 Member Posts: 970

  February 2012

  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 Member Posts: 1,792

  February 2012

  @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 Member Posts: 9,922

  February 2012 edited February 2012

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