I was wondering how to get a character to grab a enemy and throw them?
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3 years ago(+1)
Hi Baz, thanks for your comment.
Actually your YouTube videos help me figure out things a lot.
I definitely will continue to work on the game, but it is my first time making video game. There are many trial-and-error and creating the graphic takes so much time.
Anyway, please check back later for future updates.
-Ricky
3 years ago(+1)
Thank you so much for your feedback, I am really appreciated.
The hardest part to make a beat'em up with PGMMV is picking up the enemies, carrying them in hand, then throwing them back on the floor while keep track of their HP. Second is when punching the enemies, I force them to turn and face the character in order to knock them back in the right direction. It took me quite some time to figure out how to do it. Well, I am not a programmer, so I didn't use any custom script. The whole game is made with the basic functions from the engine.
I agree that the game has areas that needed to be polished. For the jumping animation, I did it exactly the same as the sample comes with the engine. I use a empty animation for the jump motion, then generate the kick animation as a child object. For the animation setting, I leave it at "none", I will try set it to "linear" and will see if it gets better. For the boss AI, I know I need to fix it, lol.
On my to-do list, I still have to do the stage select, respawn, collect special items to unlock more playable characters, multiplayer support, story cutscene, ending, and many more.
Well, it is my first game, and I want it to look good and fun although it is quite challenging.
-Ricky
This Japanese PGMMV developer I follow on Twitter is doing a very elaborate beat 'em up project.
You might be interested in seeing, he does use a lot of syntax I believe:
https://twitter.com/Moebius090
That's funny you mention that as the biggest challenge for you, I had the same issue in my submission since there's a grapple mechanic. The solution I ended up going with was using attack detections with attribute changes so that a specific value would be checked to indicate a grab (while a different one indicated getting attacked). But there's a small caveat, sometimes that 'grab' attack detection seems to kill an enemy instead of grabbing them, if the collision happens on a very tiny frame window. So it works most of the time, not all the time. Which is unfortunate, but I couldn't figure out a different approach that actually worked. Was your solution different?
Coma State Eden (my submission to the 2019 PGMMV Game Dev Challenge) is like that for me. Honestly with any art or craft, if you want to make something good it's going to be really hard and time consuming. There's lots of details and you can't ever ignore a good idea. It's definitely worth it though, you have to make something you would actually play the hell out of. That's when the work turns out better and you're having a lot of fun.
For standing still while being hit, in the enemy's objects page, at the being hit action box, turn on the "ignore move input during motion and ignore direction change during motion"
For knockback, it is a little complicated, and there are multiple ways to achieve it. Below is one of the solutions.
1. Create a switch for the enemy, something like "knockback".
2. Add "lock object" to your player's attack action, turn on "lock objects touched by this object's attack detection."
3. In your player's final attack action, add "change switch/variable", select "change switch", "locked object", turn on the enemy "knockback" switch.
4. In the enemy's being hit action box, add a link to the knockback box, in the link add "switch/variable changes" select "object self", "knockback" is "on"
5. In the knockback action box, add "move towards display direction" and then set how many pixels you want the enemy to move, and select "move in reverse direction"
6. Add "release lock" for your player
7. Turn off the knockback switch at the end of your enemy's knockback
So basically your player character needs to know which enemy he is hitting, then at the end of the combo, turn on the locked enemy's knockback switch, so the enemy knows when to knockback.
You can also achieve the knockback function by using "variable" or attribute in "attack settings".
Hope this helps,
Ricky
you are welcome. Try watch the tutorial created by baz from the link below.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjyKjxGVrnPWfJL_rXaiQDrdhhWEVg8Pt
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