Climb Ladders, Trees, Rocks, Walls with TGE 1.5

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This is my first resource so please forgive me in advance. I have been holding on to this code for some time now, hoping to make it better before posting it as a resource. Now that I had to merge it my self to TGE 1.5 I had the opportunity to clean it up a bit. However it still lacks one important feature, you can only enter the climbing state if you are facing the object. Once you get to the top and jump off, it's hard to get back on to climb down (unless you make your ladder longer than needed.)


To implement, merge the attached files with your project. You will need a climbing animation, with vertical transform. Same way you do the running animation with ground transform, you need to do the climbing animation with vertical transform. This will allow the animation speed to change with velocity.
Call the animation anything you want as long as it has the word climb in it and add it to your player.


You will also need an object to climb, you can use any DTS shape. Make sure your DTS has a collision box and as tight to the object as possible. Make the appropriate changes to the ClimbableObjects.cs script file.

i.e change shapefile = "~/data/shapes/ladders/ladder.dts"; to shapefile = "~/data/shapes/YOURFOLDER/YOUROBJECT.dts";

Optional: Add the following code to server\scripts\player.cs after the Armor::onLeaveLiquid function.

function Armor::onStartClimb(%this, %obj, %ClimbObject)
{
   //Dismount the weapon here
   %obj.lastWeapon = %obj.getMountedImage($WeaponSlot);
   %obj.unmountImage($WeaponSlot);
   %obj.setArmThread("look");
}
function Armor::onEndClimb(%this, %obj)
{
 //Remount the previous weapon here
 %obj.mountImage(%obj.lastWeapon, $WeaponSlot);
}

Go into the mission editor and place your shape in the mission, make sure that it is in an angle less than 90 otherwise it will not work.