Jump disabled while touching ladder but also touching ground

[Solitar86]

I noticed that after implementing the ladder in lecture 16_TV_UY2 the character won’t jump if it is touching the ladder.

I’m pretty sure this could be fixed by changing the If-statement to include that a player is allowed to jump while touching a ladder or ground but I was wondering what causes this?

The boolean IsTouchingGround is true eventhough the player is also touching the ladder while standing underneath it.

I haven’t bothered to thoroughly debug this yet but I was wondering if anyone knew what the problem was and if there’s a simple solution.

[Nina]

Hi Solitar86,

Depending on the player’s position, the player could be touching multiple layers. Is there a reason why you think that he should touch only one layer? A screenshot might help me understand your idea.

You could also take a look at tender82’s solution:

My ladder and physics tweaks =0)

I struggled to do something similar and finally got it. In mine, I wanted to be able to jump onto and off of the ladder but also be able to jump through the ladder or hit jump from the bottom. The in-class code was causing problems. In my code, I created a bool that told me if the player was attached to the ladder (be sure to declare that variable as false at the top of your script, not pictured here). A player becomes attached by hitting the up or down button (Vertical axis). If your playe…