I am new to MMF and I am just putting together a simple platform movement system. I am currently having a problem comming up with a way of making the movement of the character speed up and slow down smoothly when moving left and right. What is the best programming way of doing this using MMF? I have checked the forums and no one seams to have asked this yet!
you could try using the Platform Movement Object, that makes it nice and easy to add inertia to your movement. if you want to do it yourself, make an event something like
*repeat while arrow is pressed
+ value speed is less than 10
add 1 to value speed
that will make a value add up as you hold a direction, you can set the x position of the character to that value, or whatever. this is just the basic idea you'll have to tweak it a bit.
then to make the character slow down, just change the event to