Mekorama 2.0 Fix metal passing through metal bug

I notice many overlapping elements in the game such as bot arms going into slopes. I think to make the game perfect would require more code that might slow it down too much.

I would love to see a screenshot or demo of what you refer to.

 

Interesting, thanks. You're quite right, it's clearly a bug. I have noticed other bugs like stars that disappear into walls. See a demo I made below. In my latest level a slider is able to pass over a star and not 'take' it. But add a block ontop and the star is taken. There are many other combinations of blocks that affect sliders - some stop them moving altogether. The same goes for the rotating motors - I had one that stopped rotating for no apparent reason. I just added a rounded block on top of a square block connected to the motor via a long arm, like in your demo. But other combinations of round blocks on top didn't cause it to stop rotating. I didn't solve that one and removed all the motors in the end.

 

Oh back to metal through metal again. This is a bug within the mekorama engine which could potentially be due to the engine turning the collision between parts defined as movable and connected to eachother during the start of the level (probably not this one) , or maybe it just doesn't calculate the collision between them at all (more likely) due to them causing problems when calculated (since they have a high chance of messing up gameplay and causing crashes on low end devices), there can be a lot of other reasons too based on how the engine was designed in the first place, but these two r my best guesses rn; but there will be two issues with fixing this thing in the first place:

1) uhh changing anything in the code could break other things cuz programming likes being a pain.
2) there r a lot of levels made based on this bug, fixing it can cause a lot of levels to not function in the way they should and make a lot of them impossible to beat

I personally don't like bugs but sometimes they have to stay, fixing them could sometimes cause more damage than letting them stay

 

How about this for a bug: B going through stone!

(Both shots taken from my 'Ball Fall' level when B falls in the water and gets zapped.)

 

I agree

 

That's weird

 

I noticed in a recent level that B can appear in the same space as a slider. So I made a demo to test it out:



Sometimes B falls off the slider, otherwise he sits on top with his legs going through!

 

@Chris Hester I think this is happening because there is no slider rail in the slider due to which it appear to B as empty bin

 

Hmm I think @Adiorama is half right.
it could also be becuz the slider's COB is a bit... short? Since we can see B's body going into the slider, the engine thinks B is standing on the ground since the slider is not a full block COB for the player to stand on, that's why when u click somewhere else afterwards B starts walking from the ground and not from the top of the slider, since the game doesn't think B is standing on the slider in the first place, the railings are what fix the COB since their COB is bigger than the slider's (railings have the COB of a full block)

Final take: the slider's COB is shorter than expected this isn't something hard to fix if martin wants to

 

If I turn the slider sideways B can stand on it like a solid block!

 

I just added a slider rail and got two 'bugs'. First, B can end up hovering on one leg:



Secondly, if he falls on the rail, the slider goes right through his legs!

 

The hole on the slider is actually an empty room.

 

So the slider is like the cardboard in the middle of a toilet roll?



If so then only the black hole in the middle should be hollow. The copper metal around the hole should push B off the slider rail.

 

Hmm.... it should have been

 

Maybe and if B trapped on the hole he can't back if the slider not move (up and down)

 

No.
According this posts:
https://mekoramaforum.com/threads/physical-dimensions-of-mekorama-blocks.635/

The shape an object looked like is different from the one it act.