Player Dashing that always travels the same distance

[Spraden (Braden)]

Look at the new edit I made, and this time forget about platformstanding.

[Jaycbee05 (Jaycbee)]

Well, not exactly, there are ways to have the character not go back to the start position once the animation is done

but you can use velocity and body movers to achieve this( but its not as accurate and “concise” )

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Making animation stop after play

Is the animation priority set to loop?

How to make character remain in pose after animation finishes playing

Hello, this is my first time scripting with animations, so I am pretty ignorant toward it. So I made an animation that makes the player make a pose; however, after the animation finishes playing, it automatically reverts to the standard idle position. How do I make it so that it stays in that pose and stop other animations from playing?

How to keep the animations from returning to the start point?

If :AdjustSpeed(0) cancels the animation, you could try just making that number extremely small, like :AdjustSpeed(0.0001) or something like that.

[Rietria (Rie)]

This definitely dashes, but it goes back to my original issue, which is that players move farther in the air than on ground because of the friction. Check the GIF below to see what I mean.

GIF of dashing in air and on ground

[Ukendio (Marcus)]

Personally, I would use bodyVelocity but since it isn’t suitable for your case, have you considered manually changing their CFrame via tweenService?

[Rietria (Rie)]

I haven’t tried it with TweenService, but I have done it with a CFrame for loop. If I use TweenService, would I be able to keep it only on the Z and X axis, so that the player can move with gravity while dashing?

[Spraden (Braden)]

The friction of the part is slowing the player down. You can try removing the friction of the part beneath the player locally.

How do I update friction

You can read a part’s physical properties through part.CustomPhysicalProperties[property]. The only time you can’t do this is when the part has no CustomPhysicalProperties, in which case you need to use: part.CustomPhysicalProperties = PhysicalProperties.new(Part.Material) Here’s a quick function that lets you change only specific properties easily local function changePhysicalProperties(part, propTable) if not part:IsA("BasePart")then error("1st argument must be a BasePart") end if type…

[Rietria (Rie)]

But with an AnimationTrack, the HumanoidRootPart does not follow where the animation goes. For example, my camera wouldn’t move with the player, and if I used mouselock I could change the dash’s direction midway, which is pretty weird.

[Ukendio (Marcus)]

Why not lock a part relative to the player that serves as the endPoint for the tween. That way you can dictate what direction the player goes

[Spraden (Braden)]

The tween will not account for gravity, but most dashes in games don’t anyway.

[Rietria (Rie)]

If I remove the friction, wouldn’t it just slide for a really long time? Haven’t tested but that’s what I expect to happen.

[joebersons (joeberson)]

I have heard that using BodyPosition, not Velocity, is effective for this kind of stuff. Haven’t tried it myself though.

[Spraden (Braden)]

You can set the friction back once the dash is over.

I recommend @Ukendio 's dash method with the tweening, and the locked part to the player to determine where to send them!

Edit: though I must say it will move for a certain distance until it falls out of the air.

[Rietria (Rie)]

Hmm… I don’t want the dash to ignore gravity completely. I think what I need is a BodyPosition mover that ignores the Y axis, would this be possible? I know the type of dash I’m looking for is possible, as I’ve seen it in games before.

[Jaycbee05 (Jaycbee)]

can you give an example, please? (of what type of dash you are looking for)

[joebersons (joeberson)]

Yes, BodyPosition can be used on just the X and Z axis by setting MaxForce on the Y axis to 0.

[Rietria (Rie)]

Rogue Lineage’s dashing. I can quickly join the game and grab a gif if you haven’t played it.

[Rietria (Rie)]

Ok, I’ll try this next and see what happens.

[Jaycbee05 (Jaycbee)]

I’ve looked it up, and it seems like most of the animations, including the dashing, is done using a combination of joint manipulation and animations and some body movers.

i think the dash in that game is using an animation initially then it switchs over to a body mover or cframe (not sure which).

[Rietria (Rie)]

I should’ve been using BodyPosition from the beginning. It works amazingly for my situation. I just have to finish tweaking it a little with an animation and I’ll have my dash.

GIF of working dash distances

Thanks for all the help guys!

[n00kii (nookii)]

You said you wanted to replicate Rogue Lineage dashing. When you forward dash in RL, you always move in the direction the player is facing. Were you able to replicate this with the BodyPosition?