How do you make a Player Stand on a moving object?

I searched around the forums, but can't find anything about how to make a player move around independently on another moving object (say a boats deck). The player could be in both first and third person mode. I'm guessing, but would I move the boat in one direction and then move the player in the same direction? Any ideas?

This is prolly not the best way to do it, but Im sure it'd work and it's how I'd approach the problem:

CHECK IF player TOUCHING object
IF SO:
ENTITYPARENT player,object
ENDIF

IF NOT:
UNPARENT player,object

(Depending on your style of game, this should work for a player jumping/ falling running etc. Also, it won't matter at which point they collide with the ship's deck...

Or use the mighty tokamak.

I do a linepick down and parent the player's pivot to any entity immediately below it or unparent it if there is nothing below.

I did this in SARE engine and it worked a treat for lifts,it even rotated the player if they were on a rotating platform and it all worked seamlessly.

If the player is jumping or falling then unparent them.

do you want the player to be able to 'walk' around the boat?

Look in the Toolbox for Nuclear Glory collision detection.

Yes, I want the player to walk around on the boat. Would the EntityParent/LinePick method or Nuclear Glory allow this? I'm trying to avoid physics;)

Do something like; in every loop: playercollide=EntityCollided(player,object type)

When you move an object that the player might stand on, check if playercollide=objecthandle, if so, move the player along. It's a bit more difficult if you rotate the object, but as far as you call yourself "integraldragon", you better be able to do a bit of trigonometry yourself. Hope it helps :)

I'd do it with parenting, until the player is not colliding with the boat any more.

Shambler - could you post a simple example in de code archives? Sounds good!

Hmmm bit too hard to rip that out of the engine since it relies on many other things in the engine =/

Would have to write something from scratch, will see if I get the time...

Parenting/unparenting would not be perfect however.

I can think of many scenarios where it wouldn't look correct.

Imagine if the player is riding in a speed boat.
The player decides to jump straight up into the air.
In reality: the player would continue to follow the motion of the boat and land only slightly behind where he started the jump (due to wind resistance).
Parented the whole time: the player would continue to follow the motion of the boat and land exactly where he started the jump.
Unparented once jump began: the player would move up as the boat would swiftly ride forward out in front of him.

Probably best to keep the player parented or use a physics system.

This could be overcome by adding the boats velocity to the players velocity at the moment of jumping and unparenting.

What he said. :)