Character Walk on a Wall? (E.g Sonic running around a loop)

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@RhythmScript;172295

No, actually I use an overlap check on a small outer capsule (it’s shorter and wider than the collision capsule, so it can only detect overlaps around the waist circumference) to determine if the player’s “side” is touching a wall which he can run on, and if he is, I take the Hit from the collision capsule hitting the static geometry and use that to adjust his movement to angles perpendicular to the normal of that impact. I disable all non-wallrun input and use special input commands for moving him forward and up/down, and make some changes to his character movement (I slow gravity down so instead of “falling” at his normal fall speed, it feels like he’s sliding down with friction, but he’s still in his normal falling state).

His capsule is rotated to face his movement direction as the game normally would do, but he’s never actually rolled or pitched (the top of his capsule still always points straight up); all of the rotation of his body is just handled by animation. It actually works really well; looks like this:

Dropbox - MLWallrun.webm - Simplify your life

Now, I don’t do the running UP the walls, since I’m using a more Megaman-X-styled wall kicking set of mechanics, but I know that, for instance, GunZ 2 uses the same approach as I described, and vertical wallrunning is just handled by animating the player into a rotated state rather than actually transforming their collision capsule.

Yeah, I implemented something extremely similar last night; I guess I could compare the player’s speed to a fake gravity that has a similar value to the default world gravity and add a force to pull them down the longer they’ve been on the wall and the speed their going at.

Thanks for taking your time to describe what you did though; Even though I had implemented something similar last night, it’s great to see that I what I did would be considered correct by others!

Once I get running up the wall perfected, I’ll then do along the wall, similar to the way you describe and then I should be able to tackle a loop with the “Flying” movement mode.

**Even though it’s slightly off-topic: **Your game looks great! I’ve seen it a few times now around the forums and I have to say I’m already super-stoked to see the finished project! Anywhere I can keep up with development? I’d be more then happy to spread the word with my following to check out your stuff too as a thanks for helping me in this situation, which might not do much but I do have a few dedicated fans who’d love to check out your stuff!

**Returning to the Topic: **Once I’ve got this whole wall situation fixed up, I will create a template project for people to use and will do a little write-up on the methods behind it (Crediting everyone whose tried to help of course) and will release it in this thread.

Thinking about the loop, I’m going to try setting the character to “Flying” if he hits the tag “Loop” and is above a certain speed and with taking advice, I WON’T rotate the capsule but in fact the mesh inside (Which should be possible somehow) to the normal impact location, as they will be at a speed to get over the loop all the way, I will disable input at the top of the loop (So they can’t stop acceleration at the top and fall by accident and will slightly launch them just after the top of the loop to push them round the rest of the way).

When adding some blocking volumes (I need to figure out how to do this dynamically), I think I’ll be able to get a system that works quite well.

If anybody has any suggestions for any of the questions, feel free to answer them while I try to figure this out as well. I’m grateful for all the help given and I’m pretty sure that we’re almost there!

Back to tinkering with the system!

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