[MMF2] Swinging Vines

So for the longest I have been trying to make swinging ropes that move smoothly. It best was to use a geometric Sin/Cos formula. But anyway to the point, The vines are divided into different objects.( Yes, that means each vine segment is a different object), but I gave them all the same qualifier to group them. Group being #1

So I make something like:

-Repeat while holding Shift
-Player sensor overlapping .Group1[The vine segments]

;Set X position of player sensor to X position of Vine Endpoint
;Set Y position of player sensor to Y position of Vine Endpoint

This makes it so if you hold shift down while passing over any vine segment, you automatically grab on to the end of it, as long as you have shift pressed down...But

Because the Vine segments are created at the start of frame..he only goes to the vine endpoint that were LAST created. that means If I add 5 swinging vines, he only goes to number 5. not any others


so how do I make it so he can grab any vine, and NOT just the ones that are recently duplicated/created last. sorry if this is hard to explain, but im all for tips/suggestions

This post has been edited by kirbyhi5 on Jul 17 2008, 11:05 AM

so... if i'm understanding this correctly, if you have more than one vine, mario only grabs the most recent "vine endpoint" object (and i'm also guessing that each vine is made up of X amount of "body segment" objects and exactly 1 "endpoint")

anyway, if that's the case, from what i can tell from this:

you're basically passing mario to the end of the vine if he touches any part of it

the problem is that when mario collides with one object (a segment), you're telling him to go to an endpoint... but MMF has no idea what endpoint you're talking about (you narrowed down the specific segment but not the specific endpoint), so it goes its usual "what the **** do i do" route and chooses whichever matching object is the most recently created

basically you need to "group" your objects in a way that MMF can get useful information out of it (qualifiers won't cut it because they group ALL of the vines together); i'm not sure how you're creating the vines (manually or through fastloops or what), but generally you'll assign a unique ID value to all of the segments (and the endpoint) of a specific vine

so something like this should work with the ID thing:

something like that should work, but you still need a way of assigning an ID to all the segments/endpoint in a specific vine, that's different from the other vines (fastloops would be useful for both doing this and creating the vines in the first place)

This post has been edited by Xgoff on Jul 17 2008, 11:35 AM