Tileset Collision only from above

[Art_Guglielmo]

New to the forum, just started learning UE Engine about 3 weeks ago. Going fairly well, as a learning exercise I am trying to create the original Donkey Kong

I have figure out quite a bit, and I fell my question has an easy answer that eludes me.

I have the level made up of a tileset and tile map. Everything is working except that when Mario jumps too high for the floor above, he bumps his head. Is there an “easy” way to ignore the collision if the player is hitting it from underneath ?

Thank you in advance from a newbie

Art

[Everynone]

Is there an “easy” way to ignore the
collision if the player is hitting it
from underneath ?

You’d employ the dot product for anything direction relevant, have a look at this post:

Limiting a trace's direction?

Is there a reason we’re box tracing on Tick for ? I understand that you may need it for something else but it seems redundant here. Do tell, perhaps I’m missing the point. Why not approach it from the event-based side of things, as suggested above. Besides that, there’s a couple of unknowns in your script: are we sure velocity can be used (does the owner have a movement component - probably, but we can’t tell from the pic) why not use Trace Start / End for direction since we have it and want …