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[General Jak]

I've looked all through the help file and can't seem to find anything about this. How do you test whether there is a solid object at a position? There doesn't seem to be a simple check_collision expression like there is in D&D. All the collision expressions discussed in the help file require you to specify the exact object. It's probably right in front of my face and I'm missing it, but I'm a little frustrated with looking for it.

Right now I'm using GM8 lite, but I have 7 Pro. Yeah, I missed the free upgrade.

[Gibraldi]

What you can do is use the place_free(x, y) function

[General Jak]

Thanks. I knew it was probably something simple.

Edited by General Jak, 31 January 2011 - 07:58 AM.

[General Jak]

Actually, after testing it some more, that worked out a little differently than I had hoped. The character would fall into the ground a few pixels, and then pop back up when it continued moving left or right. I've tried using scripts and parent objects to recreate the D@D collision with solid, but now it just falls through if the vspeed is larger than 0.

Here is the solid_collision script:

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// returns whether there is object with parent solid_parent at position

with solid_parent
with other
if place_meeting(x,y,other)
so = 1
else
so = 0

return so
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Here is the code for the main character in the step event regarding gravity and collision with a solid object:

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//jumping

if keyboard_check(vk_up)
if solid_collision(x,y+1)
vspeed = -12


//gravity, max vspeed, and solid collision

if place_free(x,y+1)
gravity = 1
else
gravity = 0

if vspeed > 12
vspeed = 12

if solid_collision(x,y+vspeed)
if vspeed > 0
{
move_contact_solid(270,vspeed)
vspeed = 0
}
---------------

Thanks again in advance.

Sorry. I didn't think about it, but I just double posted.

Edited by General Jak, 02 February 2011 - 02:32 AM.

[Gibraldi]

You are giving x, y+1 to argument0, argument1, but in the actual script you use x, y again, which is not the same.

[General Jak]

It behaves the same when I change the values in the script to (x,y+1) or if I change the code to (x,y).

In fact, when I change:
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if place free(x,y+1)
gravity = 1
else
gravity = 0
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to:
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if not solid_collision(x,y)
gravity = 1
else
gravity = 0
----------
the object falls straight through, regardless of whether or not there is anything underneath it to begin with. I'm wondering if I did something wrong with the parent or made the script redundant somehow. Sorry, I'm a complete GML novice, so I might just not understand what you mean.