I Built The WAVE in PLATFORMER MODE Because RobTop Couldn't...

Platformer Mode, added in Geometry Dash Update 2.2, strangely disallows two gamemodes from use: Wave and Swingcopter. The wave is a pretty simple gamemode, so today, I decided to try and rebuild the wave in platformer mode MANUALLY because RobTop couldn't...
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[VIDEO CHAPTERS]
0:00 - Intro
0:20 - Building
10:39 - Playtesting/Tweaking
13:59 - Outro
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Intro Song: Night of Nights (if I use my intro)
Outro Song: • Soulless 5

[@sdslayer100]

finally figured out the issue and the level is finally up: 99408537

[@snowyfox32]

ok

[@CoverEats]

it's ok

[@danman2458]

Bro I make levels too! (they are bad. 😢😢😢😢😢 but please play them and my account is BirdBoi17. 😮😮😮😮😮😮😮 please don't dislike my levels! some of them are Hard or Insane and NA.)

[@Spagettimama]

Ok

[@danman2458]

Thanks guys it helps my heart ❤❤❤

[@unknown2501]

Fun fact you can now put in the move time : -1 instead of 999999 for a infinite duration Edit: this is the most likes i have ever gotten thank you all

[@FreddyeBonnieOFC]

I used a lot of the 99999 one, ty :)

[@maxinesurge2]

Not in all triggers

[@axiompro123]

it doesnt work with rotate trigger sadly :(

[@RioRock7]

@@axiompro123yeah because the rotate trigger takes degrees or rotations and the time you set to calculate how fast it will rotate. That wouldn’t work if it was infinity

[@therealilikecats]

@@RioRock7*rotates a pixel every year*

[@user-bs6bm1pg7b]

robtop is a pro programmer, he made triggers that can do something robtop cant do

[@moltengears7483]

Uh he can. He just disabled it cuz its not fun. I tried it and its true its horrid

[@Xhepyxopila]

@@moltengears7483 Yeah, because it doesn't have a version built for platformer mode. 💀

[@ceylqq_ceylqq]

@@Xhepyxopilahow is that a skull bro 🗿

[@Da1whoasked]

@@Xhepyxopilaactually it does.

[@Over0w0MeAmTheHotel]

@@moltengears7483 wave would be fun if people used it for bullet hell levels.

[@Beegfloppa]

Fun fact: On mobile, you can get wave and swing be in classic mode, and when you go in the portal, switch to platformer mode.

[@coolcatonroblox]

you can also do that on pc. but like why would you want to do that when you cant make a level doing that

[@Krakyy]

yea but it only works in editor playtesting

[@emeraldz2]

Yes but it only works in the editor

[@Dave_alles]

@@Krakyyit doesn’t

[@wenelol]

@@Dave_alles 1. Make level 2. Press the playtest button 3. Go through wave portal 4. Pause the playtest and go to level settings and set it to platformer. 5. Voilà.

[@alimost_gaming]

Fun fact: you can recreate swing copter like the old swingcopter before 2.2 with ball and blue orbs

[@Arotrace]

Or with a teleport trigger tied to the jump button (with event trigger) without a teleport group set and gravity set to toggle

[@kibelhistoryjki]

Or just take green orb at start and give it follow x and follow y (You can also make it invisible)

[@LitoMike]

green orbs better

[@peeeeeeeeeeaf]

@@kibelhistoryjkigreen orb doesnt work quite the same

[@FireInTheHole998]

@@LitoMikeagree

[@DehydratedMoron]

crazy how much better this plays than how rob did it before just removing it for the final release

[@ChatloupidUwU]

Mini ship would mimick the wave's hitbox better than the regular size imo. Great video tho, so cool you figured it out :D

[@krkika.official]

You can use advanced follow to rotate the wave art where it moves

[@noobyplayz2840]

oh yeah since advanced follow is one frame behind it rotates based on your velocity

[@Therealjosso]

It would be really funny if you used this in a featured level like “screw you robtop”

[@-Logan_Word-7437]

I feel like there’s no real reason robtop couldn’t add swing in platformer. It can’t be much harder than ship or ufo, right? I mean, you can do the classic duel ball thing in platformer mode and it works just fine. Maybe there’s something I’m not seeing, but I think swing should be in platformer. Very cool video btw. Turned out very well

[@scmbgoogle7790]

GDPS editor 2.2 addded it, but it behaves like the ball so its almost useless

[@user-wu7wu7pq9f]

Both the wave and swing were implemented at some point, but it just felt janky to him so he ended up not adding it.

[@voguefurret]

There's actually a Trigger in 2.2 that automaticly removes Fade In / Fade Out on all objects. It looks like a block crossed out in a circle.

[@Mizu2023]

I'm pretty sure that existed before 2.2

[@voguefurret]

@@Mizu2023 Did it? It looks very similar to another trigger which is only crossed by a single line rather than two, I only recall there being one but I might be wrong.

[@splashmanej3]

they both existed before

[@PoggersFloppa]

if it did, absolutely NO ONE noticed so idk ive never seen a circle with an X on it over a default block@@splashmanej3 if it did exist then everyone would be using it because it doesnt take 6 almost 7 years to find out what an entry and exit trigger does.

[@Matrixorial]

@@Mizu2023that one had 1 line in it. its used to stop 1.0 transitions

[@MaxTheAnimatedAnimator]

Finally, us pixel blocks are being recognised

[@UnknownUser92816]

I know right? I have never been recognised by that before.

[@warrenlees9673]

so true@@UnknownUser92816

[@ThemeParkTips.]

i think all gamemodes should be added in platformer, i think the wave should act normal, moves down when you dont hold and you can go left and right, i dont know why robtop didnt add the swing tho, it would be so easy to make it work in platformer.

[@moltengears7483]

Ive tried it. They are NOT fun

[@RioRock7]

Swing is just really annoying in platformer mode. Wave is just incredibly broken, buggy, and un intuitive. Rob said he has a different plan for wave in platformer mode.

[@blazeisaW]

swing copter with platformer would just act like a ball, wave is a little unpractical and not the best but it should be added

[@ipga13]

In megahack theres the option to enable all modes in platformer. Wave and Swing are not fun. The swing is basically just the ball in platformer and the wave is broken as hell

[@nappeywappey]

​@@blazeisaWwhy tho? It should let you change gravity midair

[@HxroGAMING]

the wave should 100% be in platformer!

[@EightIsALetter]

Trust me, it shouldnt

[@Baconboi261]

No wave should not be in plat because the game will have bugs

[@HxroGAMING]

@@Baconboi261true, but it would be cool to see what talented creators would do!

[@AK_804]

maybe

[@TelPhi_]

@@Baconboi261 You could say that about literally any video game feature lol Bug fixing is a necessary part of adding new things to a game

[@velky_reeds]

8:22 I know there's a spawn block that you can use to make the player always spawn on a specific location when they start the level/die /restart, it's the same thing that robtop did in the second level of The Tower (the cube spawns from the pipe)

[@wj11jam78]

For adding the wave visually, Id just make it flip when left or right is pushed (-1 scale trigger), and rotate up when jump is pressed and back down when its released. Would take a bit of thinking. Since you need to prevent the left input detection when already facing left. But not too hard. The up and down rotation would be harder, since you dont want to overshoot on the way back down if you didnt rotate all the way up. I think there might be a way to make something look at something else? Adv follow?

[@janwithbanan]

thing is, there's no reason the wave wouldn't work in platformer. the way I would see it as, would be that it would kinda be like if you were playing snake or pacman for example, you press a direction and the character travels in that direction until there's another input

[@jakeofficialjtoh]

Wave and swing works in platformer (Just in editor tho) Set the game to classic, put a wave/swing portal, playtest till you get to the portal, pause the playtesting, change the mode to platformer and gg

[@simplydoggies]

and the swing works perfectly

[@appleandgrapes109]

The title roasted RobTop in 69 different languages💀

[@trendygaming795]

To check if 2 different things are held, you can put 2 collision blocks with a 1 block gap in-between. When you do one of the two actions, a move trigger can move one of the collision blocks to the center where it is empty. However, nothing happens since they aren't touching. Once both blocks are in the center, whatever you put to activate in a collision trigger activates.

[@tomkyxl]

1:59 okay chill out

[@BobBG234]

Naw dude

[@TheBester7]

Nice! The physics aren't the same as in the 2.2 gdps tho (in the gdps/beta, the player would only move on the Y axis if he was moving on the X axis), which kinda made the wave gamemode unique in platfomer, but its still a nice recreation! Also the swing copter would actually be easier to recreate than the wave. it would only require a touch trigger/toggle orb, gravity portals that would toggle on and off depending on the inputs and a gamemode with a similar gravity, (and a gravity trigger if necessary)

[@SomeCowguy]

Why not just... Green orb

[@TheBester7]

@@SomeCowguy green orb makes you "bounce" slightly, which is terrible for straight fly. the gravity portals make you slowly take your normal gravity, like the swing copter

[@sovietcomrad3994]

Fun fact: it is possible to make an actual wave design with rotations using event trigger. i have done same thing this night

[@viktorradevic1299]

You can use a collision block system to detect which buttons are being pressed to make the wave rotate

[@unluckybean2800]

or keep using event triggers, detecting if 2 events are happening and then choosing what state of the wave to display

[@Shulkern]

you can be the wave in platformer if you play as any gamemode in the editor, pause, and then go to the options and choose the wave. i think you have to be in normal mode, and then choose platformer mode together with the wave. you can also do this with the swing, but im not sure if its been fixed.

[@worldx1091]

RobTop should add Wave and Swing to Platformer mode, for the sake of full freedom when creating levels.

[@unluckybean2800]

robtop said that those modes just wasnt fun but that he'll do something about it later

[@Micha-Hil]

2:37 you ever just accidentally make the longest level

[@Mark--__--]

You can checl the "non stick x" in the groups tab so it doesn't send you flying in the direction you're holding

[@RoxGamingPL4080]

you can use the "advanced follow" trigger for the wave to follow player movement

[@Mizu2023]

Yeah but there is no position offset, only x and y mod, but those wouldn't be useful for that

[@thebigcheese192]

@@Mizu2023you can do that with parent groups

[@Wyatt516]

as a pixel block, thank you for recognizing the pixel block community

[@justejyraph]

It's sad to see the touch trigger is now dead. Ot was one of my favourite triggers 😢

[@NovaParagon]

LOL Dude I found your level in the recent tab! didnt know you made it!

[@teaminstinct489]

Congrats on 200k 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@spacebarw]

oh well i had a chance at stopping kids from saying first

[@HampterYesyes]

Funny thing is that you could you could move into the portal, go to normal mode, the switch back and then u got wave

[@TyyGD]

Bro re-invented the wave

[@chuchichocho9290]

Great job on the wave in platformer mode. Now do swingcopter

[@tosterzyingd]

11:46 jupitur is playing Plutinium T6 MP jumpscare

[@deartropforwhat]

fun fact: in the gdps version the platformer wave worked like this: u can move left and right but if u move somewhere while holding you go up as long as u move

[@verticalquack]

The reason for the respawn bug is that the spawn group moves with the box, and the game seems to respawn the player before moving objects back to their beginning positions. I learned this while trying to make an autoscroller.

[@Alexanderbreavis]

bro cooked when robtop couldn't

[@DaRealCyberWolf]

Tbh i don’t understand why platformer doesn’t support swingcopter, like left or right still works, and then just tap for gravity switch to go up and down

[@jfamily9214]

yea its the same as the ship but in platformer (for some reason platformer replaces ship with jetpack)

[@panoramma_3730]

the part where u talked about subscribing was halarious 😂

[@ftv_ff]

2:16 his yelling is going to be changer sooner

[@MoaiGaming1]

Rob should remake wave for platformer, make it a new game mode with the same ideas, like the plat ship. I was thinking the ribbon

[@thedinosaurz]

He literally said he is remaking wave

[@Tango2416Roblox]

If you dont know, you can actually set the gamemode to the wave in the editor by placing a wave portal and going inside it in Classic, then setting mode to Platformer, it just lets you be a wave.

[@wctcasc]

B U G

[@Zenux09]

You should of made it mini so it has more accurate hitboxes. Also good job, it plays better then I thought it would👍

[@gdvortex2169]

What was causing the blocks to move in a different speed compared to the player was that you had them locked to the player x movement which already makes it follow the player, but then you added additional movement to it on the Mod X.

[@Spek5ter]

RobTop should hire this man for real! :D

[@liquiddasher1860]

Unpopular opinion: Soulless 5 as an outro song absolutely slaps🔥

[@BroccoliDoctor]

3:35 dancing Sdslayer with an afro

[@LilyBrew15]

I played a fangame called mania dash a couple of years ago just went back to it and the wave literally behaves like this except that if you release it doesnt do anything but if you click s or down it will make the wave go down, we need a down button in gd platformer to map it to anything

[@vxczyle]

2:14 when he talks about subscribing, the subscribe button lights up for some reason

[@GamingGalaxy2013]

Fun fact: if you set it to normal go through a wave portal and the set it to platformer (you have do this in the editor, not the verify thing) And you will get wave in platformer

[@Ne49_tive]

The fact that sdslayer made the aughhhh sound so accurate in 2:41

[@iinkstain]

Wave in platformer should play like the snake game. this just seems PERFECT for its gameplay.

[@Odin-thedog]

The reason it was jerking you around everywhere is because it was multiplying the position instead of adding

[@plazma-field]

2:15 soooo close to 200k, 10k away! 🎉🎉🎉🎉❤

[@deejayaech4519]

Idea: For the wave, make it just free move(like the undertale soul)

[@trudyjones1287]

mania dash did do that. and you can do that the same way as this just with P2

[@ThatOneTechy]

The reason you weree going flying is because when you move right the box pushed you, adding to your momentum making yougo faster which means the box would push you harder wtch leads to an infinite loop of speed

[@kelvin.36]

Sdslayer video never disappoint us

[@RazorLight_YT]

Robtop: *taking notes in the corner*

[@teamavaa9919]

1:08 Crazy scream

[@Tortle7]

SD cooked with this video 🎉❤

[@Tortle7]

I agree with @HxroGAMING

[@Tortle7]

He’s very smart (:

[@Tortle7]

And accurate 😂😂❤

[@maxineeames5766]

I made plat swingcopter with the dual + blue orb + ball with platformer (the one people use to make swingcopter when swingcopter hasnt been released.

[@thecallofdutyplayer0]

good job you just earned a sub

[@GamerCatMechArena]

I like the number for the jump push event

[@moonstarmaster]

You're so close to 200k let's go!!!

[@tableclothgames_YT]

lets gooooooooooooooooo 200k subs congrats!

[@whatthebell2773]

I actually prefer as a 3D block

[@BryanMerida-kr2dc]

0:56 86400 seconds = 1 day

[@bubbergus9248]

Ok, so here is how to actually do it. Make a level with wave game mode in classic mode.. While playtesting with wave mode, pause and change the mode to platformer.. Switch back and you got a platformer wave! Same with the swing.

[@Mrs._Ukraine]

I feel represented as the father of Pixel blocks I am john pixel, the creator of pixel blocks

[@aetriis]

Fun fact: The wave is completely functional if you use mods to force yourself into platformer (but it’s VERY buggy)

[@Fibero-Fibero69_420]

You can use the hide player trigger and just have some blocks that look like the wave follow the player, add some triggers so that it rotates if thats possible, add some color channels for the color.. and bam the wave is now in fucking platformer mode.

[@TheMasterBee]

the original one locking to the player didnt work because when it pushes you, it sees that your going faster, so the thing locks to the player and goes even faster, until its so fast it just launches you out.

[@Blueberrie_1]

Super cool idea

[@Skull-wants-sweets]

You… um… made it harder that it is

[@wakiwakr]

i feel like in the context of platformer mode, making wave mode is kinda redundant. You can achieve almost the exact same movement with jetpack mode. Well not exactly the same but you can maneuver around obstacles regardless of mode.

[@Gavinstites47]

Do swingcopter next

[@ROCK_ON_THE_GROUND]

Swing copter Plat:become boll ten put a move trigger or use follow y and x axis triggers then see if it works idk the rest

[@TonyTheShooter]

Rob has been really quite since this dropped

[@---Camp-Half-Blood---]

The wave is way too good for platformer to not include it! Def should be an actual gamemode wtf

[@stoeptegel4382]

Robtop did not include Wave and Swing in platformer mode because they just weren't fun

[@itzgalactica]

Cool video. But I'll just stick to "All modes platformer" in Mega Hack.

[@mekanicooktv5048]

It can works on swingcopter and wave: 1st:use plat. Then go to portal that not allowed to plat. 2nd:use the normal 3rd change to plat. Then see the result

[@coda4981]

Have you actually tested this or did you just make it up lmao

[@wctcasc]

@@coda4981 He tested this, but it’s a bug.

[@orlanfernandez3035]

To make wave in plat. just put blue orbs around the level in dual Edit: to make swing just put green orbs around the level but. Sdslayer i love your videos and good idea

[@MsCrikit]

"WE DEMOLISHED 900K AND WE ARE SETTING OUR SIGHTS ON 1 MIL LETS GOOO" future Sdslayer

[@MsCrikit]

Sdslayer will say this over and over again... and break my ears when i have volume 100

[@whatadillo]

Hello guys girls and pixel blocks.that first sentence he said killed me😂

[@HunterCheatham-yx1fo]

Great level!

[@STG24]

1:18 you need to add space for the player to move Edit: 2:02 even more space Edit 2: when you give him enough space make it actually work

[@ChexboredKitty20]

1:07 “AHHHH”

[@Over0w0MeAmTheHotel]

if robtop made a platformer wave I really REALLY hope that he adds 4 key movement for it so that you don't automatically go down when you dont hold the up key but rather that a down key would be added so that you could control the wave fully with wasd, (it would be cool for bullet hell levels) but I also hope that blocks aren't automatically lethal for platformer wave but that it functions like a D block

[@Fibero-Fibero69_420]

Imagine having 2 MORE keys more making games in GD, that's 4x what we had in 2.113

[@Iamtoast321]

Robtop couldnt do it,because people knew a hack that you could go throught walls,floor just by standing a bit.

[@jjgh5421]

Cool video!

[@backoffyo9292]

that subscribe advertisement sounded like THE SUPER BOWL!!! YEAHH!!!!

[@arcanine_enjoyer]

You can easily jail player 2 by using spawn group in the jail and then adding a teleport trigger with touch enabled The teleport trigger forces P2 to stay in place but teleports P1 to the target of the trigger.

[@ashleyhowe6333]

The elements of surprise😂

[@pepetube1657]

you can create swingcopter using the blue or green orb simple

[@bluephoenix97]

Put green orbs everywhere for swingcoptor

[@FloeAnimations]

You can make a close wave recreation by using the old ball green orb method

[@Mizu2023]

Try the UFO blue orb method too, it's the way the community suggested the wave gamemode idea to RobTop(IIRC)