Ice with Water underneath - How to handle trigger?

Nord

Hello everyone! For the past two weeks I've been learning this neat engine and I have a question on how to solve this certain scenario in my 2D top-down game.

During the game, the player moves around on patches of ice that start to break as the player goes over them. Currently, underneath said patches of ice, I have a layer of water that is supposed to sense when the player touches it, but, at the moment it triggers as soon as I start the game, even though the player is on a patch of ice "above" it.

What is the correct approach on how to solve this? I've tried a variety of things, even simple things such as Z-Index to no avail.

Thanks for any help!

TwistedTwigleg

Welcome to the forums @Nord!

How does the water sense the player? If it is sensing the player automatically at start, then it might be something with the code related to the water sensing the player that may need adjusting.

Megalomaniak

have logic be on the ice instead and give the ice a durability variable. Each time the player exits the ice tile area you subtract from the durability value until it is 0. Then if it is 0 you have the logic for water run instead.

Nord

@Megalomaniak said: have logic be on the ice instead and give the ice a durability variable. Each time the player exits the ice tile area you subtract from the durability value until it is 0. Then if it is 0 you have the logic for water run instead.

Believe it or not, this is the exact thing I came up with 10 minutes after heading to bed. Thanks for the help nonetheless! :smile: