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Hi

I have two entities - player and ladder.

I'm using check() to determine if player has touched the ladder.

Inside I'm setting a Boolean (onLadder) to true.

I can't seem to get it to set to false when the player moves away
from ladder.

I tried an if/else inside the check function but to no avail?

Any suggestions, most appreciated.

The check() only runs when they are touching, so it will never set it to false that way.

why do you need onLadder variable? the player is on ladder whenever the check function fires.

Hi Rungo, I've written a ladder class that is working very well for me and came across the same dilemma. Here is what I did:

at the end of my update class (after calling parent()) I set onLadder to false.

//this.onLadder = false;

Then, in check, which executes before the update function runs again, I basically reset this.onLadder to true after running some conditionals.

If check() didn't execute, this.onLadder would remain false.

Thank you for the responses.

I've ended up using .touches() and it works a charm.

Always pays to dig through the API.

Cheers