A question about Walking (areas)

[InCreator]

Hm. Is it technically possible to use a walkable area that is just 1 pixel wide line?

(Thing like that is needed, for example - for character walking on a rope or a narrow log over the chasm)

I tried and couldn't. Width of 2 pixels worked fine.

[Gilbert]

Well I think for safety, walkable areas as well as non-walkable areas are better kept 2 pixels+ wide. Because the character may move more than 1 pixel displacement per game loop, so he may not walk properly in a thin walkable area or walk past some nonwalkable areas that he shouldn't, which is the same problem in the pre-walkable area era (the glorious AC walls era).

[CB..]

im using some very narrow walkable areas, they can occasionaly cause the character view to glitch slightly..this might depend on wether the walkable area is a straight line ;ie all the pixels line up, if it looks like a flight of stairs, because it's going diagonaly across the screen then that would make certain parts of the area even less than one pixel across , and cause problems ?

[Pumaman]

AGS uses varying granularities for its path calculations, depending on the size of the walkable area - to ensure it always works, your walkable areas should always be at least 3 pixels wide.