is there a better way to align my movement vector to the floor? | Godot Café | Page 1

fiery rover Mar 28, 2023, 3:55 PM

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i want to make my character move along the floor like in mario, in that they smoothly go up and down slopes, ive been using get_floor_angle and rotating the movement vector, but it doesnt seem to work for the left side
what's the proper/ better way to do this?

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the red line shows the direction of the movement vector after it is rotated by get floor angle

lethal eagle Mar 28, 2023, 4:04 PM

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for a start, maybe you'd want to do floor collisions a bit like on this page, so that the centre of your character is used for slope detection

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https://nikles.it/2019/gamemaker-tutorial/how-to-code-a-platformer-engine/

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this stops your character poking out a lot while on a slope

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then maybe i'd use a state machine to make sure I can stick to the slope if there's ground directly beneath me - if I'm in the ground state, and I'm suddenly airborne, I'd check beneath my character for ground and then snap to it

fiery rover Mar 28, 2023, 4:15 PM

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this is gamemaker?

#is there a better way to align my movement vector to the floor?