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Hey everyone. I wanted to add a ladder so I used the ladder area. But everytime when I try to climb up or down, I fall down. The area is big enough and high enough, so I don't know what I do wrong

It's a bit tricky thing, maybe try to rotate the area to fit in front of the ladder, and test the game again untill it will work.

I'll assume that your Ladder Area is colliding with the ladder.

Let's look at an example...




I'll assume you understand that this is a top view of three ladders and three ladder areas. The one on the left is incorrectly placed, because it is within the ladder. The other two are correctly placed, as there is nowhere for the Player to collide with any entities/static objects which will make the character "fall" off the ladder.

I'm assuming that's the problem, but there is also something else...




The middle ladder is incorrectly placed. It's LadderArea is far too high, which will cause the player to "float" above the ground for a brief, scripted moment when the player walks onto the ground. The other two are correctly placed. The one on the right is correctly placed in both criteria.

Hopefully this addresses it

EDIT: Also, there is a smaller set of arrows within the LadderArea, which do not move the box when clicked on. These serve as reference co-ordinates to determine which way the Player will face. Assuming it follows the same ways of the PlayerStart area, the Z co-ordinate is the blue arrow, which will be the way the Player faces. If so, make the blue arrow face the Ladder by rotating the box

Thanks for the replies. But it still does not work... Everytime I get onto the ladder, the player automatically jumps to the position where the "Area" label in the area appears.



If I climb down, the player directly falls down. If I climb up, I just can climb a few steps. I also removed any entity or object which could collide with the area, but nothing happend.

Maybe the ladder area is upside down ?
Try different sizes and angles.

You do know that clicking the mouse buttons whilst climbing results in the player falling down, right? Could that be the problem?

(12-08-2013, 05:39 PM)ZyLogicX Wrote: [ -> ]You do know that clicking the mouse buttons whilst climbing results in the player falling down, right? Could that be the problem?

No, this isn't the problem... And if I try to climb up the player stops at some point and is falling down, too.

@Amn: I tried that out, too, but nothing happend.

If I click on the ladder area I get directly to the point where the arrow is, no matter where the player is standing. (look at picture)
Even if I want to climb on the ladder from the bottom: I tried to put the are higher. And if I climb on it from the bottom, the player "jumps" to the top directly...

Send me your map on this post or through pm so I will take a look at this.

Oh, thank you very much!

Allright, make copy of your map just in case and replace it with this one. The problem was that player couldn't get the ladder area because of the hatch which was colliding with him, I fixed it and it works now check it out