Freeze Sprite speed

Hello!

I am wondering if it is possible to freeze a platform speed so that under certain conditions, the platform speed would no longer increase by the acceleration.

Basically I want to figure out a way that I could have the platform speed freeze when jump is pressed. right now I have a running control that picks up speed by platform acceleration. Problem is, that it keeps increasing speed even in the air. I want the speed to be locked on jump. Hope that makes sense. Thanks!

Are you using the Platformer behaviour?

Set your acceleration event to have the condition of "Is on floor".

If not you could pull the same trick by having a boolean variable that set to True when your player is overlapping with the floor sprite.

Mr E Bear, thanks for your input, but tried both, and the speed still picks up even after in the air. I need it to freeze the speed, as soon as the sprite leaves the floor somehow.... Hmmmmm....

Something like this?

<img src="https://dl.dropbox.com/u/8367729/construct/pics/jumpingStopAcceleration.png" border="0">

jumpingStopAcceleration.capx (r99)

Hahah, yup that did it. So simple. I feel kind of silly. Thought it was going to be a lot more complicated. Thanks!

Oh wait. Actually that is not quite what I am looking for, as that makes it so you can not control your player at all in the air... Hmmmm...

This might be more what you want:

<img src="https://dl.dropbox.com/u/8367729/construct/pics/jumpingStopAcceleration2.png" border="0">

jumpingStopAcceleration2.capx (r99)

Hey, that works. But it makes it so if you are not moving before you jump, you can not shift in the air at all, which I understand is part of it, but I am wondering how I could add a little movement when the x vector is zero. Hmmmm, thank you so much, for your help.

So you want a minimum maximum (<img src="smileys/smiley26.gif" border="0" align="middle" />) speed?

player is jumping:

      set platform maximum speed to max(100, abs(player.Platform.VectorX))

so the maximum speed will be at least 100 or whatever when jumping.