Elevator system help (Going to the floor you want)

How would I go about making an elevator system for a platform game?

Not just a simple back and forth movement but something that stops at desired floors through pressing the corresponding button.

I tried messing around with custom movement but ended up using the sine behavior on the elevator in a way that it only moves when the player is standing on it.

SineElevatorExample

Far from perfect I know. And the player jumps/lags quite a bit. Attempted to fix the lag by looking at the example Yann posted here: Vertical Moving Platform

...but instead the entire elevator lagged immensly.

Here is a similar test layout where I wanted to use the buttons to make the elevator move to the desired floor, but I don't know where to start!

Global variables, instance variables? Loops?ButtonsMovingElevator

The layouts are all just mockups to test if things work.

And don't mind the silly testdummy in the first capx!

I do not expect a cake on a silver plate but any little help to show me the way is greatly appreciated. Sorry if I missed a topic already explaining something similar.

If you take a look at this, thank you in advance!

For the lagging elevator, try disabling event 21 in Yann's example, and you'll hopefully see what it does.

Controlling the elevator with buttons gets a bit more complicated though, I don't think sine movement is the best behaviour to use in that case.

you could try to use Custom movement instead of sine

I would try this

On key x pressed:

if player overlapping elevator object:

elevator move towards position (elevator.x, arrival platform.y)

And i think you need to stop it when both Y values are the same...

I'm not sure if this works and cant test it since i don't have construct here right now

But with no testing its what i would try out first

I modified your .capx a bit, hope it helps:

Example: Elevator, 3 floors (No buttons)

Nimtrix    Cool, I'll try disabling it! And I know sine movement isn't the right approach, was just a test and also to get any result at all :)

thanks for replying!

rgros     I updated the second example. I tried custom movement that is only enabled when player is overlapping the elevator + pressing blankspace for it to start moving. At both ends are colliderobjects that reverse the custom movement on collision.

I did that before reading your post actually. What I can't get to work atm, is to press blankspace again to make the elevator stop. And also to tell it to wait x seconds at either the endfloors or each floor, but each floor would get too boring in gameplay.

This is an acceptable method to use if I am to skip the complex system with buttons completely :)

EDIT: AH! Didn't see your second post there, I'll check the capx!

Thank you so far Nimtrix!

Sorry for this double post!

I got so carried away with the modified capx that I forgot to say thank you!

Best thing is I understand it all! :) Compare Y, of course!

Thank you Nimtrix!!