How do I change my climb state

Ok, so I presently got a nice climb onto a ledge system. but it uses a extra detect sprite attached to the player sprite.

I realized that this causes the system to calculate extra detection of collisions, so I want to find a better and more optimal solution.

What I did was add an intance variable for when the player is mirrored or not which are either 1 or -1

Now, I tried doing this:

PlayerDetect is overlapping at offset ledge at PlayerDetect.X + (PlayerDetect.PlayerDirection*8)

(Then also added the detection of the point at Y)

But is not working. Only way so far I can make the climb system is by using an extra sprite. So is there any solution?

Thanks in advance

I'm gonna do a shameless bump on this.

Sorry

meh, sorry, last time I bump this

Maybe this?

PlayerDetect is overlapping at offset ledge at (PlayerDetect.PlayerDirection*8, 0)

The offset is relative to the player. It's the same as if the object is moved 8 pixels to the left or right before checking for the overlap.

R0J0hound, thanks that works amazingly good. This way I avoid using an extra sprite for detecting ledges.

But now I face a new issue:

Climbing is done in only one ledge and even if I try to grab another one I still get warped to the same point. Should I do a check up of the ledge being triggered using their UIDs?

Nevermind, I found the solution. But thanks for your help! you rock!

cheers

Theres a problem that raises with R0J0hound solution. If I keep the button press while entering climbing state, once on top of the ledge Player goes back to hanging position. I suppose this is due to Y being zero.

Also, am I optimizing this for nothing or will I have some performance gain at the end?

My solution was just an idea to better use "overlaps at offset". You'll probably get the same amount of collisions with either method.

Ah ok, well, that sucks. I thought that by getting ride of an extra collision detection sprite (so far I use 3 or 4 attached to the player sprite) I would have a reduction in the collision detections.

Thanks!