When upgrading my project to 4.5, I discovered a most frustrating problem: my character stops all horizontal movement when touching another object while in the air. For a platformer, it’s a bit disconcerting and potentially hazardous. Through much testing, I narrowed the problem down to the falling…

Further investigation has revealed that the problem actually lies with the air braking value, where colliding with an object causes the acceleration to be marked as zero, which then causes the braking deceleration to apply, bringing the character to a halt. Even more bizarre is that changing line 2…

[4.5 Bug] Falling lateral friction problem

Development World Creation

skeleton60 (skeleton60) October 16, 2014, 6:11pm 4

hmm can be this a reliable fix?