How do I have beat em up esc movement.

I'm making a game that's kind of sand-box like. But, the graphics style is (So far) beat em up with two way animation. So there is a left and right walk animation only, but the player can move 8 directions. My issue, is having the animation continue depending on which direction the player is facing. I also want to add jumping with 8 way movement. Not sure how I would do that but I have an idea.

Anyone? Please?

Been trying to figure out a method all day.

The walk animation only goes left and right. I cant seems to make the animation play when pressing up or down, depending on which direction the player is facing (Left or right.).

beatem up movement is best handled by 8 direction movement,

jumping in an isometric beatem up is tough to get looking right (including dealing with obstacles and if you can jump ontop of them/ walk off them etc.

so if your new to C2, try skipping jumping in beatemups for now.

Hi justintime0185,

when having 8-way movement, give the player also the platform-movement behaviour and set initial state to false. Make a new event, if space (or an another button) is pressed = simulate jump (platform behaviour). I think its the simplest way to achieve jumping with 8-way movement. (you'll have to add a keyboard to your project file, if you want to get it done by pressing a key, otherwise youll need a sprite for the GUI input and a mouse/touch object in your project; then: "if sprite is clicked/touched then simulate jump").

Regards,

Proxy

Thanks. I figured I could do that for jumping or play with the collision in the animation.

I still need assistance with the I direction movement. I know how to implement it. But Im having trouble with having the animation mirror based on which direction the player was previously facing when pressing up or down. Basically, I don't have or want an up or down animation. I want the animation to automatically be my left or right one. Because every time I press up, the animation snaps to the side I set it as. Like, if the character is walking left and then stops, when I press up to move up, the 'Walk' animation should play depending on where the player is facing instead of snapping to either left or right. Does anyone understand what I mean?

I have an animation of a velociraptor walking left, I've made the left and right variants of this. When I press up or down nothing happens. So, that's awkward. I tried playing with the mirror functon but that just snaps it in the fixed area. So, if my raptor is walking left in game and I press up, the raptor will snap the the right variant of the animation.

Now, I recently thought maybe if I add the on pressed left key and on held up key, as an event and do the same for the right key, maybe it will work.

If its like "after left key pressed, hold up key and L animation place." However, I'm not sure if it will work.

That didn't work.

Any clues?

on key "left" pressed - set raptor to mirrored

on key right pressed - set raptero to not mirrored

he will stay facing whichever last direction you pressed.

Yes but what about the up and down keys? How do I get the animation to play either left or right walk animations when pressing up or down based on which direction the player was facing.

Yes but what about the up and down keys? How do I get the animation to play either left or right walk animations when pressing up or down based on which direction the player was facing.

Oh gosh. I Apologize greatly! It works fine. I just misinterpreted the 'Set to mirrored' and didn't understand how it works. It works fine now. Thank you so much, and sorry again. Just had to re-read the code to understand it. Because I was initially doing something similar, and it at first sounded like a broken record until I realized the difference between on holding, and on pressed. Also, I didn't understand that set mirrored actually SETS it to mirrored and doesn't reset after the code was initiated. Silly me.