How should I create the main character for a platformer game using Fisica library?

stealthis..

How should I create the main character for a platformer game using Fisica library?

in Contributed Library Questions • 1 year ago

I'm starting to make a side scrolling platformer and I was just wondering if anyone had any ideas about how to make the main character control better.

What I have so far:

class Player extends FBox{
PImage b = loadImage("alen.gif");
Player(int x, int y){
super(64,128); //The image is 64x128
setPosition(x, y);
attachImage(b);
setFriction(1);
setRotatable(false);
setRestitution(0);
}
}

What I would like:

The character to not slide when you stop moving/no acceleration or any other things you think would make him control better. I definitely need to change it so that if you hold the space bar longer he jumps more, but that I can figure out.

Thanks!

(Every comment is very much appreciated and I will do my best to give back to the community that has answered so many of my questions! Thanks!!!)

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PhiLho

Re: How should I create the main character for a platformer game using Fisica library?

1 year ago

It is a long time I haven't used Box2D and I never had time to look into Fisica, but I think that if you want to stop the movement of an object, you have to change some parameters, make it fixed or something.
Now, you can also just make it not following the physics of its world, so you can control it fully. If you need to launch it, then take control, you might need to alternate between mobile and fixed states. (I think you can change the coordinates of a fixed object.)

stealthis..

Re: How should I create the main character for a platformer game using Fisica library?

1 year ago

Its not that I want the main character to be completely fixed, its more about making it so that when he runs to the side the doesn't slide so much, like he was on ice. I guess I would set the friction to be greater but I'm not sure if that is the best way to do it.

But thx for the response :D

I was thinking about making him separate from the rest of the physics engine but then I feel like I'm just doing a cheap fix. Anyway thx!

riceje7

Re: How should I create the main character for a platformer game using Fisica library?

1 year ago

Try setting the FWorld's edge's friction to 1. As such:

Fisica.init();
FWorld world = new FWorld();
world.setEdgesFriction(1);

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