Sorry for this double post!

I got so carried away with the modified capx that I forgot to say thank you!

Best thing is I understand it all! :) Compare Y, of course!

Thank you Nimtrix!!

Nimtrix    Cool, I'll try disabling it! And I know sine movement isn't the right approach, was just a test and also to get any result at all :)

thanks for replying!

rgros     I updated the second example. I tried custom movement that is only enabled when player is overlapping the elevator + pressing blankspace for it to start moving. At both ends are colliderobjects that reverse the custom movement on collision.

I did that before reading your post actually. What I can't get to work atm, is to press blankspace again to make the elevator stop. And also to tell it to wait x seconds at either the endfloors or each floor, but each floor would get too boring in gameplay.

This is an acceptable method to use if I am to skip the complex system with buttons completely :)

EDIT: AH! Didn't see your second post there, I'll check the capx!

Thank you so far Nimtrix!

How would I go about making an elevator system for a platform game?

Not just a simple back and forth movement but something that stops at desired floors through pressing the corresponding button.

I tried messing around with custom movement but ended up using the sine behavior on the elevator in a way that it only moves when the player is standing on it.

SineElevatorExample

Far from perfect I know. And the player jumps/lags quite a bit. Attempted to fix the lag by looking at the example Yann posted here: Vertical Moving Platform

...but instead the entire elevator lagged immensly.

Here is a similar test layout where I wanted to use the buttons to make the elevator move to the desired floor, but I don't know where to start!

Global variables, instance variables? Loops?ButtonsMovingElevator

The layouts are all just mockups to test if things work.

And don't mind the silly testdummy in the first capx!

I do not expect a cake on a silver plate but any little help to show me the way is greatly appreciated. Sorry if I missed a topic already explaining something similar.

If you take a look at this, thank you in advance!