hold shift to jump

how do you make it so that if you'd tap shift quickly, you jump low, and if you hold it you jump high?

thanks in advance

This post has been edited by Dialga on Mar 21 2007, 06:57 PM

it's how long you hold shift down, not how hard you press it

I don't think that's possible.

...it is, MTC, UM, and many others use that

Have it so on press, it sets the vspeed and a variable. On keyboard shift, if said variable is higher then zero, make it set the vraiable and the vspeed relative to -1.

Of course that makes it so you can float by tapping the shift key. To fix that, make it so that on the keyboard press event it also checks to see if a second variable is equal to zero. On shift release, set the second variable to 1. When the player character lands, set the second variable to zero.

Simple enough.

thank you

may someone make a simple tutorial on this please?

i tried everything on MTC's text but some reason it wont work.

dont care if the tutorial is crappy

I've made variable jumping simply by using the Press Shift event to jump and using the Release Shift event to set the vspeed to 0 if it's smaller than 0 (i.e. upward).

that worked but he goes down instantly

That's true. For some reason it never occurred to me up to now to really check if the jumping in the official games was different from what I just described, and it turns out it is different. 0_o

MegaTailzChao, could you please put what you just said into GML code form? I'm sure that would help us both out a lot.

This post has been edited by Grant on Mar 21 2007, 08:16 PM

Key press "jump"
If there is collision with object at position (0,2)
Set vspeed to -10

Key "jump"
If vspeed is smaller than -4
Set vspeed relative -0.8 (important must be lower than gravity)

This code works best with room speed of 30 and with Gravity of 1

This post has been edited by Ultramario on Mar 22 2007, 02:06 AM