Character jump smoothly to specific spot

Hello,

I am trying to have a character jump smoothly to a specific spot. From there, the character should jump smoothly to the next spot.

So far I tried pathfinding, 8way movement and platform behavior but it doesn't really work the way I want.

The idea is it that I have four holes in the ground where a boss enemy jumps out from one and into the next hole. Since there are four i want the boss to randomly spawn and pick a random hole, so the distance should be different, otherwise it would be easy XD

Hey EzekielRage,

Sorry for the delay I failed my first attempt to do this :-P

You can create an algorithm that moves your boss side to side and up and down using lerp.

I made a video that explains it (pretty well? I hope):

youtu.be/HslLOaD87jA

Or you can use my code and plug and play:

You could probably adapt this

howtoconstructdemos.com/trajectory-calculation-two-methods

Shoutouts to dop2000

Here's the equations. t is how long you want it to take to get there in seconds. And mouse is the destination spot. Probable can put it into a function for easy use.

var t=1
On click
-- set speed to distance(0,0,(mouse.X-Self.X)/t, (mouse.Y-Self.Y)/t-0.5*Self.Bullet.Gravity*t)
-- set angle of motion to angle(0,0,(mouse.X-Self.X)/t, (mouse.Y-Self.Y)/t-0.5*Self.Bullet.Gravity*t)

R0J0hound

Hey R0J0hound - did you come up with the (-1+4(self.t-0.5)^2) equation? I thought I've seen it before but when I went searching again today I could only find it in snippets from you.

That formula doesn’t look familiar but possibly. Most of the formulas I post are either found online or just multiple formulas combined together and simplified.

That's what I generally assume with formulas I find online, but wanted to give you credit if it was yours. Either way Kudos for you!

Hello,

I used winstreak's method, the video was very well done :) Thank you s much, it works exactly as I imagined. Much appreciated :)

Thanks to everyone who also contributed, you are great people :)