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Mechanisms Floor button / floor switch?

Discussion in 'Level Creation Help' started by shultz, Sep 17, 2024.

  1. shultz

    shultz Member

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    I have been trying to create a floor button or switch, that is triggered by B walking over it.

    I've tried making things like sea-saws where B walks over one side.

    But nothing happens. It seems like B does not apply weight to the thing he is standing on? Does B push down on blocks, or is B essentially weightless?
     
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    MekaSage Famous Member

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    One technique is in this demo. The key is to have a motor somewhere along the metal mechanism to allow it to be mobile (although it doesn't actually move anywhere).

    I left a cutout on one side so you can see how it works.
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  3. shultz

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    @MekaSage thank you for sharing that demo, that is very helpful. I also discovered there are many different explorations of things like this on the forum, they are more often called "sensors" or "force fields" here.

    From my brief experiments I can't seem to find anything where B's weight actually pushes down on something. B doesn't seem to push down with any force when he's walking on level ground, and when he's standing. B can knock things with his body left and right (ball push) and I have also noticed that if B falls off the side of a floor switch, he will trigger it as he falls.

    The mechanism in this card and force fields - my guess - is movable objects go to sleep in the physics system when B isn't too close to them and - and B wakes them up when he is close enough.

    What I am still searching for is a floor switch that is only a 1x1 tile. The switch you posted has a radius, it looks like about a 3x3 radius around the switch.

    The closest thing I have found is The Long Way Round by @ArGee but I'm not sure if it can be repurposed into a floor switch (or even if it's possible to build that facing up).
     

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