How do I make boxes have gravity? I’ve been using the Platformer character behavior for them but the result isn’t quite what I want.
How do I…
Give boxes gravity so they fall when either they aren’t on the ground or on other boxes
What is the expected result
Simple falling downward for boxes, doesn’t have to be downward physics.
What is the actual result
It does sorta work at first but for some reason, the boxes keep glitching on top of each other and sometimes even start falling from the top when they shouldn’t, at first the collision wasn’t the full image, but I re-did the boxes and now the collision is the full image, same result, and this is an issue since the game heavily depends on a lot of boxes being on top of each other
Why not add force toward angle 90°
With conditions
INVERTED box is in collision with ground
INVERTED box is in collision with box
But i think your box would get stuck since they would collide with other boxes
I think there would be trick for that but for now i have no idea of any easy solution
Either someone else would come here with one such or give me some time
Yeah I did try this with the adding and stopping forces and it worked until I realised the boxes in the air don’t fall because they’re colliding with each other even though the last one isn’t in the ground, this is the one thing stopping me rn, I can’t think of a fix for it, take your time
Tried it, it breaks the system, the character now can go throw them and can’t jump on them to break it, whenever they’re broken they fall into places when I just want them to fall vertically, nothing horizontal, and I already use a physics object for box pieces that show up when a box gets broken, now instead of falling off-screen they remain on the ground, oh yeah the gap is still there, even if there is no space in the image.
I think the forces are the best approach, but it just needs a solution for when boxes are colliding with each other, something like the “If player is on platform X” condition for the PlatformerObject, instead of the collision condition
I can stack A LOT of tiles on top of another
ONLY way to make them start to sink
Is when you place one tile inside another
Even if they overlap 1 pixel
So i wonder
How many boxes you are actually trying to stack on top of each other?
Cause there should never be issue unless you allow one box to invade space of another
And that is again using platformer object and character behaviors for tiles
I think I get the issue here, so in my game if the player breaks boxes and dies without getting a checkpoint, the boxes would re-spawn where they got destroyed exactly, and I need to have that respawn function so I’m not sure if I can rely on character behavior if it breaks this easily
When objects are created disable their platform CHARACTER behavior
Use wait like idk 1 or 2 secs and then enable it
That should fix the issue
Cause to my understanding whole issue comes from the fact they are NOT created all at once but like everything from top to bottom
So picture this
IF you have box on the left and box right from it
Then under 1st box on the left you have another box
Then going from order of creation they always be spawned at
1 one on the left
2 one on the right
3 one under the one on the left
SO something like
1 2
3
Instead of
1 3
2
So when 1st is created it already starts to fall because nothing is below it even for one frame and when one under it is created it is already overlapping one above it
SOOOOOOOOOOOO if you would disable platformer CHARACTER behavior when you create them they would NOT fall
And if you enable it like i said after 1 or 2 secs where they would be already created by that time then you would be perfectly fine
Tried it, it still happens because you can destroy the boxes after they fall out of their original position, so let’s say you have 3 boxes on top of each other, you destroy the lowest one and the two start falling and after they fall you destroy them, they would respawn inside each other
Wait what we are talking about
Cause i was sure you are talking about IF player dies then you respawn boxes at current position of these boxes WHEN checkpoint was reached
Or am i wrong?
If so then all you need is
At least i was expecting you are using it to save all boxes position at the moment checkpoint was reached and then load them back when player respawns
For that you would 1st delete all boxes THEN load them
So i do not get how 1 box can go inside another in this scenario
Or you are doing something else?
I mean one crucial component would be to place checkpoints far enough so player can’t destroy any box while reaching checkpoint
Oh, it isn’t exactly like that, when a box is destroyed, the events get the X and Y position of it WHEN it was destroyed, not its original position, I asked here before for a box respawn system and I’m using this without exactly understanding it, but it works
I guess the solution is for it to store the X and Y position of every box at the start of a scene, I just tried this but they now respawn regardless if player destroyed them or not
Well yeah but a player can die before the first checkpoint, would it be possible to make it save the pos of every box in the level at the start of the scene? and also, would it affect the boxes that got destroyed? Like, player destroyed some boxes and found a checkpoint, I wouldn’t want these boxes to spawn again if he dies
How about make checkpoint an invisible one where player spawns at beginning of the scene or simple perform save when level starts
That would fix the issue
Nevermind, I tried and don’t understand what to do, they don’t respawn, what am I supposed to do with these?
Event for reaching checkpoint and respawning
Pay close attention
In save you can save either by touching skeleton or pressing 2 and it will do it automatically at beginning of scene
In load you will load boxes by pressing 1 and automatically at beginning of the scene
Press 3 to delete boxes
SOOOOOO
At any given moment you press 2 then 3 then 1
no matter if boxes are falling or are they already are stacked and not move
OR you could go to skeletons on the right touch one then press 3 and 1
BTW just for your info
That wait action 0,02
IS doing all the work
I forgot in gdevelop sometimes crap happens too fast
And you need to add at least one frame of delay
Same trick is useful when you make custom cursor for your game
And you want to hide your actual cursor
Sometimes it won’t hide
Then you just make
At beginning of the scene
Action
wait 0,02
Hide cursor
And it will always work
Same trick can be used in A LOT of cases
