Stop bouncing off sides?

The player is a continuous bouncing ball which can be moved left & right over platforms (think Mario Bros.) using the Bullet behaviour but I'm having a slight problem that the ball bounces off the sides of the platforms and speeds of the screen, I'm using the Solid behaviour for the platforms.

How can I just bounce of the top of the platform and not bounce off the sides?

Here's the .capx - http://www.mediafire.com/?5pzve04orz4onpn

And here's what I mean: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2485349/Bounder/index.html

Hi Nickydude

You could give your player sprite a bound to layout behavior. That will keep it from bouncing out of the layout area. Or just make some walls, give them a solid behavior, and in the properties window set the initial visibility to invisible. Either way should work.

Thanks Wink but that's not quite what I mean. I want to stop the player bouncing off the sides of the platforms, not the edges of the layout as it will be a big level which the player can bounce around.

Have a go here http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2485349/Bounder/index.html and try to bounce up the steps and you'll see what I mean. :)

Hey Nickydude,

Im not an expert but i had a quick look.

What i would try is to add an event:

(ball) on collision with (block) = (ball) bounce upward.

I have only just started using Construct myself so i dont know how to get the ball to go up off the top of my head but there is a "force push" behaviour or something along those lines that would work nicely, its in the C2 examples.

Another way would be using platform behaviour.

Example

capx

Brilliant kastas, that's exactly what I was after! Thanks.