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Stopping player from moving on steep terrain

by Hugo Mardolcar · in Torque Game Engine · 10/02/2003 (6:10 am) · 3 replies

Hello ppl

I'm trying to make the player unable to walk over steep hills (it's not very nice that he's able to climb anything...)

I was searching here and there and I eventually got to gameConnectionMoves.cc, to the method GameConnection::getNextMove, and it looks like it should be there that the "steepness" check should be placed.

I made the calculations with the MoveManager::mForwardAction kind of variables, but it doesn't seem to work and I wonder what these variables actually hold...

can someone give me an hint about this?

Thanks!
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Torque Owner Dylan Sale
#1
10/02/2003 (6:35 am)
I would make the changes to the player.cc file. IE, the Player class itself, in updateMove. Theres already a ton of stuff in there about jumping and landing on slopes (they push you back on the normal a bit to give a bouce effect). You could look at that and calculate the normal angle to find the slope, then if its too much, just stop the player from moving forward.

Torque Owner Greg Ellwood
#2
10/02/2003 (6:41 am)
I think the solution to this is a lot simpler than you think.

Open player.cs in /server/scripts/ and look for the variable:

runSurfaceAngle

Changing the value of this affects how steep a slope a player can climb.

Hope this is what you need.

-Greg.

Torque Owner Hugo Mardolcar
#3
10/02/2003 (6:52 am)
Eheh, simple and effective
that's it, thanks!