Skateboarding game - grinding

Hello everyone,

Lately I've been thinking about making a skateboarding game. For now I'm just trying to do some planning and I already need help. The thing is, if it's gonna be a skateboarding game, then there's gotta be grinding in it. You know, you ride up to a rail or a ledge, then ollie onto it and press some buttons to do a 50-50/boardslide/whatever.

Now I'm wondering if it's possible to make a script that recognizes the shape of an object and determines if there's a ledge that could be grinded, so I don't have to mark every ledge myself. If not, then what's the most optimal way to do it? How would I make my skater "know" if he can grind an object?

 

The one I know (Mike V: Skateboard Party) I would say that it has prefabs with the grindable zones,
In most of this games they have a pack of maps that cannot be modified.

 

Yeah I think this could be done with a good deal of coding, but frankly like that guy above said you might be better off using prefabs that recognise they are grindable.

It would make level design much easier for you i think. Perhaps have your standard objects and then have child objects attached to them and detect if the conditions are right to allow for a grind.

Good luck!