Sliding Attack Assistance

I'm working on my first game as a gift to my girlfriend. I've been hammering out the mechanics for a week now and have almost everything done. In my testing, however, I have noticed a strange bug that prevents me from attacking while performing a wall slide while holding the down movement button. I've reviewed my events and can't seem to find the issue. I was hoping one of you helpful veterans could take a look and see if I am missing something.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/32712975/kvla.cap

Movement is WASD, jump is J, attack is K. To wall slide jump against a wall and hold against it. You can jump kick off the wall as well as double jump. Also, you can skip the first layout by pressing Enter.

Thanks!

The problem has nothing to do with your events; it's the control setup

Keyboards can only register so many keys at a time, and the cap changes depending on the keys used. For me, using the arrow keys and S to jump / D to shoot fixes it.

The problem has nothing to do with your events; it's the control setup

Keyboards can only register so many keys at a time, and the cap changes depending on the keys used. For me, using the arrow keys and S to jump / D to shoot fixes it.

I considered that, but if that was the case why would sliding while holding up at the same time and firing work? I don't mind switching around the controls to get it working, I'm just curious.

the cap changes depending on the keys used

Seems it will register 3 keys when holding up, but not when holding down. That's all I can think of atleast ^^;

> the cap changes depending on the keys used

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Seems it will register 3 keys when holding up, but not when holding down. That's all I can think of atleast ^^;

That's so odd. Thanks for looking at it and the help.

Further testing shows that while I'm sliding on a wall to the right, it doesn't work. However, if I'm sliding on a wall to the left, it works! Wow. I don't get it.

Keyboards can only register so many keys at a time, and the cap changes depending on the keys used. For me, using the arrow keys and S to jump / D to shoot fixes it.

Needs to be mentioned that it's also different for many keyboards, since they are not all wired the same.

I tried it and it seemed to work fine on both my laptop and stationary computer (although I find the use of WASD for a platform game, not using the mouse, awkward).

The, probably, safest way to be sure your keys dont cancel each other out is to use arrow keys + Z/X or arrow keys + S/D, or something to that effect. I usually consider the arrow keys in combination with a, s, d and/or z, x, c, as safe.

Thanks to everyone for the help.

Like what was said, switching back to a setup using arrow keys for movement fixed everything. Hopefully when I switch to working in controller input it won't cause issues there.