Suggestion for the engine: add a jumping ability.

[nightm4re94]

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Posted: 2018-12-30 18:19:49
User: Dmartin42 [] (age: 1435 days 🔥; posts: 36)}
Instead of people having to code the effect each time, you should add the ability to the abilities class. It could be done with creature.jump() or something.
You guys already have the code set in your sample project, so it should not be anything more than a copy and paste from that.

[nightm4re94]

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Posted: 2018-12-30 18:23:37
User: Xeinix [] (age: 1463 days 🔥; posts: 26)}
I do believe that is coming in the new character controller in LitiEngine. I haven't been able to do a complete deep dive so do not take that for fact.

[nightm4re94]

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Posted: 2018-12-31 16:08:46
User: nightm4re [Admin 👑, Mod 🔧] (age: 1567 days 🔥; posts: 185)}
While I agree that everyone should have access to an example of a Jump in LITIengine, I don't think it is trivial enough to actually include our solution as the standard. There are maaany ways to implement jumping and I'm sure it's best if people can tweak their jumps to their needs.

[nightm4re94]

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Posted: 2019-01-03 18:08:35
User: steffen [Admin 👑, Mod 🔧] (age: 1568 days 🔥; posts: 100)}
I have to agree with @nightm4re here: I don't think that jumping can be considered the same for every game. There are a lot of open questions regarding conditions, jumping pattern (e.g. curve), input handling, canceling the jump upon certain events etc.
I don't think that there is a good enough default for all of these to provide a single way of how jumps should work in the engine.
Nevertheless, I'd recommend you to have a look at the ~~Jump Ability of Gurk Nukem.
This is an implementation that uses the ****~~Ability Framework**** to apply a ~~~~GravityForce for a certain amount of time.