Game Design - How to implement Vine-like swinging?

I would probably use a timeline for this. When the character collides with the vine, disable Platform behavior, start the timeline. You will need to move the character above/below the vine on z-axis during the playback.

I think calculating the path in a more dynamic way could be possible too. A reason for that could be you want the spinning to start where you first grabbed the vine, or if the shape of the vine is dynamic.

The first step would be to have a curve fit the shape of the vine, then find the point on the curve that was grabbed.

After that it’s a matter of moving along the vine, and the spin is done by moving along an angle perpendicular to the vine with a distance of 32*sin() or something. You can use cos() for the zelevation or use it to change the zorder. Finally when the end is reached you’d enable the platform behavior and set the speed.

The coiled path around the vine could be refined further by doing some relaxation filter or something. Maybe overkill but it seems to kink a bit otherwise.

I’ll finish up an example tomorrow and see if I can simplify the solution further. At this point I only have twisting around an arbitrary path.

Move along animated segments: drive.google.com/file/d/1xTLqRUC8W7mkQqXuIAbk5I2HEZVrBZ7F/view

Looks like he found a a nice solution. My guess it’s a nice animation and it moves along the vine segments. Not bad.

twitter.com/PD_CGT_games/status/1708700907238539702

Lol yee I ended up workshopping a dynamic solution by making a string indicating the bends the vine takes, then tweening the player along that path. Gotta change around some conditions so there isn't a 1-frame pause between tweens but otherwise happy with how it looks

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the dropbox link isn't working for me :/

Hmm this forum broke the link. Copying it from the code block seems to work.

Ah, this version is really cool, I like the way the player object physically orbits around and behind the vine, mine just follows the path and uses an animation to convey spinning.