Top Down Jump. (SOLVED)

Hi. I'm working on a top down 2D game in which I want the player to be able to jump for a certain duration on click.
I tried a lot different ways but still I'm not sure how to do this...

What I thought to do is to just set a bool "jumping" to true when player clicks (BUT doesn't matter how much the player holds the click key down , it should only jump only once and not being able to jump again while it is still jumping) but I'm not sure how to do this nad how to set the time that the jumping will be true.

 

You could do it with Booleans. When the button is clicked it sets activateJump boolean to true.

Code (JavaScript):

1. if (activateJump = false && <touch code for jump button>)
2. {
3.     activateJump = true;
4.     do jump code
5. }
6.  

and in your ground check code set activateJump = false;

 

Yes but the thing is that the game is top down so I can't control the jump with the ground check
because when the player jumps it only plays an animation that makes the illusion of jumping.
So what I need is something like a timer that will set the boolean from false to true for a certain amount of time
but also it won't let you jump again while already "jumping".
Also if you know the code in C# it would be more helpful since I'm working with C#. If not, it's ok I just need the logic.

 

Even though it is 2d... it is still in a 3d world.. cant you just jump on the Z axis?

 

yes that is possible but why would i do that? I just need an animation to play to give the illusion of jumping.
I don't think there is any gravity on Z axis anyway... So I don't think that would be possible.
And even if it is possible I think it's better with a timer because as the level progresses I want the jump time to become
smaller every second.

 

Then you would simply have a setbool on the animation system. so when you set the bool to true to play the animation you check if that bool is true with the control. Then you would have to alter the animation to shorten the animation play time...

Im sorry without actually workin on the project its hard for me to explain and work with all the possible outcomes

 

Very interesting! But how can I alter the animation to shorten it?

 

I understand your logic but I'm not sure how to shorten the animation play time

 

i have never done it. but it would entail altering the animations sample to a higher number i would beleive. It's something you would have to dig in and play with. This is all theoreetical as i said ive never messed with changing that stuff.

 

Ok thank you very much for the info
I'll try my best

 

The issue with a timer is when you reduce the timer the animation is going to still play the same length. So you have to work those two together.

 

Ye indeed... and another think I'm thinking is that if I shorten the animation it might mess up the frames if I actually have to lower frame rate

 

if you leave the animation times the same and the jump times always the same you could make it so when the jump button pressed the animation bool get set to true anim.SetBool("Jumping" , true); then you set up a timer for the same length of time and anim.SetBool("Jumping" , false); then that will open up the jump button again.

as i said somet rial and error is required.

 

Ye, that's what I tried to do at first but I'm not sure how to do it.
I have been working with C# for like 6 months now on Visual Studio but I'm new to the Unity C# and there are some differences. I'm trying to find a timer to do that but I can't find any on Unity C#.
On Visual Studio I would use a time interval and I would be all set up, but here I'm not sure how it's done :/

 

Something like....

Code (JavaScript):

1. var jumpTimer : float = 0.0f;
2. var jumpTime : float = 2.0f;
3. var isJumping : boolean = false;
4.  
5. function Update()
6. {
7.     <button control stuff that sets isJumping to true or however you wanna do it.>
8.     if (isJumping)
9.     {
10.         jumpTimer += Time.deltaTime;
11.  
12.         if (jumpTimer >= jumpTime)
13.         {
14.             jumpTimer = 0.0f;
15.             isJumping = false;
16.             <set your jump stuff to false>
17.         }
18.     }
19. }

sorry for Javascript i dont use much c# but it should be easily converted to c#

 

It works like a charm!!!!!!!!!
Thank you very much my friend!!

 

any time.

 

Hi ! can you share your jumping code ?