How to make a grappling hook | GDevelop 5 Tutorial

[@buttonsplaymusic4896]

Super cool. Good idea showing playing the game at the beginning. It looks fun to play. Another fun thing might be a multi-speedup button. For example, the forward (right) arrow. Holding Forward causes player to move at given speed. However, tapping does something different. Tapping once gives player a very small propulsion forward. Tapping twice adds an accumulative forward force, and so on. ie tapping a bunch makes him move really fast. (options a developer might want: 1 speed does not decrease ever, but instead when you press left (back) he stops or near stops; or 2 each press of forward propels a given force which all add onto each other but do diminish too and if you stop pressing forward eventually (depending how fast hes going would decide how long it takes him to stop) he will stop.

[@lycanrising]

That's a fun idea! I'll give that some thought 😊

[@buttonsplaymusic4896]

Youre right, those same 2 things would be cool for a rope grapple. What you made here is just as cool, i think, although a different thing. looks really fun to play and i can already think of a lot of applications developers could use it for Possible solutions: the rope animation i dont know but ill come back if i think of something. the velocity problem. maybe the condition could check for current speed and direction, then the action could repeat (or amplify) that same velocity. so if hes going 35deg at 84pixels, when he lets go he could receive a force of the same (or same x 2 or something).

[@lycanrising]

That's interesting. I'll write that down and try it sometime!

[@Jay.C]

Great tutorial! Thank you

[@buttonsplaymusic4896]

I thought about it a bit, and a sprite method is all I could think of, which might be the same as you mentioned. Where when grapple is launched, and animated sprite (with no behaviors) is created between the player and the hook. One method could be creating the "rope" sprite object centered between the two other objects, and as actions set its size as the same width as this measurement, and orientation similar. (Theres no way to make raycasts visible, is there?)

[@lycanrising]

That's pretty interesting. I was thinking about using a tiled sprite because that would expand better. Could be worth a play with. Thanks for messaging your ideas! 😁

[@RTBRuhan]

can you make some tutorial about how to use position/camera position command and using of function /behaviours

[@lycanrising]

Good question! I'll give it some thought 😊

[@lycanrising]

I made a tutorial here, hope this helps! kzbin.info/www/bejne/kH7LiaSji9mJgtE

[@Akshat2131]

can you please explain how to change controls from arrow keys to w,a,s,d keys in player_animation ???

[@lycanrising]

I believe I was using the build-in character controller in GDevelop, you may need to look at setting non-default controls: wiki.compilgames.net/doku.php/gdevelop5/behaviors/platformer

[@RTBRuhan]

there is some bug...grappling hook stuck in floating floor sometime

[@lycanrising]

That might be because the distance number under 'player is close enough to reload' is too high. If you make that smaller does it still happen?

[@RTBRuhan]

@@lycanrising no it happen some times only

[@lycanrising]

@@RTBRuhan how odd. If you could share a screenshot on imgur of something I could get looking at it. Thanks for commenting and telling me!

[@RTBRuhan]

@@lycanrising gph.is/g/ZxPWV2P

[@lycanrising]

milad shahdadi can you give me a bit more detail, do you just want the platform to move in a line or are you looking for something specific?

[@erkling5865]

hi sir. great tutorial! can you please make a platformer character be able to fly up on/off with a button pressed? i was able to do it, except the inertia from flying when key is released, it looks unnatural to instantly stop movement when key is released. and i can't make it move left/right when flying, too. hope you can help me. thanks in advance!

[@lycanrising]

I'll give this some thought!

[@erkling5865]

@@lycanrising i successfully did it...saw the answer i needed in the gdevelop forum from a user named ”cat”. anyways, still do make a tutorial, it would be a big help for aspiring game developers, showing them more options to do in a platformer gdevelop game! thanks to that, and your camera follow uncentered tutorial, my game's core mechanics are all set and done. i can finally move on to making a level. :)