[HELP] Obstacles in the middle of the scene...

[InuxMedia]

I have a character that you can move up, down, left, and right from a view looking down on the character. Making him not leave the scene was easy. Now though, I am trying to put a square obstacle in the middle of the scene, that the character can not walk on. I'm missing something simple that I can't put my hands on.

For the walls, when you hit the wall, it sets your x coordinate back outside, so you can still run along the walls but not go out. With this square, you can't use that same method. It doesn't know if you're running from the left, right, or bottom, or sometimes two of these. If you tell it to move you to the left of the obstacle, it only works correctly if you run into it from the left. If you hit it from the bottom, it jumps you over to the left of it.

Is there any simple way to make it so that a character cannot walk in a certain area in the middle of the screen?

[Gorfiuz]

trye se uf you not hittets like this would be in youre character:
if(!_root.oObstacles.hitTest(this._x,this._y,true) ){
//and here you can you can go in direction like movespeed
dont know if you wannt it that way but.

[artlink]

don't bother with the x or y's:

your mc --> <--

--> use this patern for moving: ._x += Speed_Of_My_

if(hitTest bla bla bla) {Speed_Of_My_ = 0} else {Speed_Of_My_ = 5}

[InuxMedia]

don't bother with the x or y's:

your mc --> <--

--> use this patern for moving: ._x += Speed_Of_My_

if(hitTest bla bla bla) {Speed_Of_My_ = 0} else {Speed_Of_My_ = 5}

But if you hit the obstacle from the left and you set your speed to 0, theny ou can move up or down against it... or away from it in that case.

[Ironclaw]

Sometimes you can't move, that's why I don't set the speed to 0, I instead push the player 1-2 pixels back. (tiny bump effect)

[InuxMedia]

Sometimes you can't move, that's why I don't set the speed to 0, I instead push the player 1-2 pixels back. (tiny bump effect)

I tried that first. But again, it doesn't know which side it's hitting it from. If you hit it from the left, it pushes you back a few pixels to the left. If you hit it from the right, it warps you over to the left.

[artlink]

But if you hit the obstacle from the left and you set your speed to 0, theny ou can move up or down against it... or away from it in that case.

true.

then just set a leftspeed, right speed,...

They are plenty of ways to do the same stuff in flash, just choose your weapon

[Osteel]

Dont you just love irony, my younger cousin was asking me how to do this yesterday so I still have the file!

Anyways, have a look at what I did, pretty simple.

Enjoy

[artlink]

here it is.

Then probably just need a function for multiple colision detection and that's it.

Here you don't get the "bumping" effect as in ostel example even if it could probably be fixed in his example as well, and I dunno what I did ostel but while going on the top right wall I found myself into the wall actually.

yeah I escaped it

Probably just some rough version.