How do I make a dash move to my player ?

I am working on a side scrolling platformer and I want the player to perform a dash move when I press the spacebar. In other words, I want the player to move very quick for a certain distance to the right or left. I searched the forum but I found nothing that helps me.

I tried this but is not working:

Keyboard On Space pressed

(subevent) PlayerSprite is not mirrored: PlayerBox set Platform Disabled

PlayerBox set 8Direction Enabled

PlayerBox Simulate 8Direction pressing Right (maxspeed: 1000)

System wait 1 sec

PlayerBox set 8Direction Disabled

PlayerBox set Platform Enabled

(subevent) PlayerSprite is mirrored: -----------

I tried the "(Platform) Set vector X" , not working.

ps: I am using the platform behavior for the player, I added the 8 direction just to try it.

Anyone made this before ? How can I make this to work ?

Have you tried doing that with the Platform behavior?

Set the speed and acceleration up, wait 0.5 seconds and set them back to normal?

Yes, doesn't work

I'm not sure why that example wouldn't work but you could try adding a dash variable that is turned on when spacebar is pressed.

if dash = true => set speed to (whatever speed you feel is good); wait 0.5 seconds set dash to false

if dash = false => set speed to (whatever your normal speed is)

Simply use 'set vector x'

It kind of works but not like I want and is buggy. I want the player to move a certain distance in the direction is facing (mirrored / not mirrored) without being necessary to hold the A or D key, just by pressing SPACE.

Can you guys please look into the .capx file ?

Link https://www.dropbox.com/s/8xf94t6jqmo2k ... .capx?dl=0

Hey there, here you go!

https://www.dropbox.com/s/08v67pz22ef2l ... .capx?dl=0

BTW I love your artwork.

Thank you so much ultrafop !

Sure thing . More than welcome.

You can add a bullet behavior for your 8 directional, set it enabled and ignore user input, then disable it and stop ignoring user input, in the case of plataformers you can have a global variable called "angle" that everytime the character is mirrored is set to 180, if its not set it to 0 and set the bulet behavior angle of motion to that variable.

here is a capx that i was testing some mechanics on it, look for when the keyboard presses down:

drive.google.com/open ... 0ES8VKW4Sb