le2:Problem with falling character

[cassius]

There are many places in my game where the character could fall from a high place to what in real life would mean death or severe injury.

Is there a way I can implement this whereever it occurs in the game in the same bit of code?

 

I know how to impement it in specific places but there are too many places it could occur to make that method feasible.

[gamecreator]

I think this came up in another thread but I forget how it was resolved. The simplest may be just to check the Y velocity (I believe). If it's 0 (or close) and last frame it was a large negative, kill or injure the player accordingly.

[Josh]

Check for a collision with a speed above a certain value?

[Pancakes]

you could have a boolean that checks whether character is on the ground or not, whenever this character is not on the ground you can start a timer, if the character comes in contact with the ground after a certain amount of time you should subtract someHPvalue * amount of time airborne

[cassius]

Thanks for replies.

[DarthRaff]

And don't forget to check if the player just falls down a slope. When he arribes at the ground he will dies or take the injury unnecessarily if it does not checked, i think

[cassius]

Yeah there are all sorts of pitfalls to solving this prob.If you don;t think it out you can create other problems.