Jumping up 'stairs' from screen to screen - always wallswimming?

Usually that's done with grass.

That would work, but wouldn't the player get confused that he/she is standing on something invisible? (Or nearly invisible)

You people are stealing my answers 


So anyways! You can add something shiny or a glowing object that will get the players attention so that they will know they are standing on an object.

That would work, but wouldn't the player get confused that he/she is standing on something invisible? (Or nearly invisible)

I dont think so... when they are supoused to being in the tile of a screen down   

I dont think so... when they are supoused to being in the tile of a screen down   

I think you accidentally the middle of that sentence.

Wow, you guys are awesome. Lots of stuff to try here. I think I like the one-pixel line thing best, because it would interfere the least with the look of the screen as I've planned it, but there's one crucial problem with that one: I'm already using two tilesets in that screen, and neither of them has  a one-pixel line. So I'd either have to let one of the tilesets go and replace it with one that has a line like that, which would be painful - I'm a compulsive tileset combiner ;-) - or alter one of them to include the line... Hmm...

[Five days to go to my very last exam; after that, I'll be back at my proper computer, and also, officially jobless - so there should be plenty of time for level building... At least for a while. *g*]

Either tileset have slopes or grass?

Nope, they're both brick-based, city-type tilesets. But I've found a workaround: I'm putting the 'staircases' on an extra screen, and am making them from only one of the two tilesets so I can use one of the two-layer ground construction tilesets for the one-pixel line as the second set of the screen. I've already tried, yesterday, and it worked. :-) (I should probably post screenshots sometime, shouldn't I? ;-) I will, when I'm back at my own computer next week. I can't upload stuff to my webspace from work.)

If you're still not satisfied, you could always build an elevator principle using shifts. You create a place that looks different, and upon touching it (or using the activator (default)) you teleport to the new location one screen above.

if they're nifflas's tilesets you can modify them (he said you can as long as you credit him as the original author) and just put in a line in an unused tile although most are done with transparency i believe but its not hard to add a little line in gimp

If it weren't for the two tilesets on one screen, default tileset 187(?) works wonders.

Actually, I got a sight of "stairs" in the level "Secretary for a Day" by SamiH. 

Which method?

Which method?

it's hard to explain without playing the level, but...it has some issues.

Almost exact same bug, but on smaller scale..