Tutorial-Blog Eventing a Push/Pull System

[Touchfuzzy]

by: @hiddenone

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[Xelion]

That's a pretty good way of donig it! When I did boulder puzzles in my 2000/2003 projects they only had a simple push mechanic and I remember just telling the player to exit and reenter the scene if they got stuck.

 

[Touchfuzzy]

That's a pretty good way of donig it! When I did boulder puzzles in my 2000/2003 projects they only had a simple push mechanic and I remember just telling the player to exit and reenter the scene if they got stuck.

I've always included a reset button of some sort even with push only puzzles.

The method that @hiddenone used to do the pulling though is pretty spiffy. Definitely will be yoinking it myself in the future.

 

[hiddenone]

Having to reset puzzles over and over while testing is why I came up with the pulling part. After rolling a rock against a wall one too many times, I decided it would just be easier if I figured out a way to let players fix any mistakes they made without having to reset the entire puzzle.

 

[Jennavieve]

This blog post was super helpful as a guideline. I would have had no idea how to even begin implementing a push/pull system if it wasn't for this. Thank you so much!

I used this post as a basis for understanding how a push/pull system should work but took out the scripting and used if/else clauses exclusively just because it was easier for me to wrap my head around.

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I also had no need for any of the direction fix calls so I left that out. For anybody else who struggles with scripts, this is also a functional option.

 

[Frostorm]

I wonder if I can make moving platforms w/ this method...