Locomotor and AmphibiousCreature odd behaviour.

[GalaxySugar]

I've been experimenting with swimming characters recently to see how they managed to let the player jump in and out of the ocean, "Wirra the Wild Child" in particular.

I've found that boats are a completely unusable when a player character is given the AmphibiousCreature component, constantly jump whenever they try to move. But other entities like hounds and grass gators don't have this issue.

I think this is because the Locomotor component's OnUpdate function repeatedly pushes the "OnHop" event.

Snippet from Locomotor:

          	if not blocked then
                if can_hop then
                    self.last_platform_visited = my_platform

                    self:StartHopping(hop_x, hop_z, target_platform)
                elseif self.inst.components.amphibiouscreature ~= nil and other_platform == nil and not self.inst.sg:HasStateTag("jumping") then
                    local dist = self.inst:GetPhysicsRadius(0) + 2.5
                    local _x, _z = forward_x * dist + mypos_x, forward_z * dist + mypos_z
                    if my_platform ~= nil then
                        local _
                        can_hop, _, _, _, blocked = self:ScanForPlatform(nil, _x, _z, hop_distance)
                    end

                    if not can_hop and self.inst.components.amphibiouscreature:ShouldTransition(_x, _z) then
                        -- If my_platform ~= nil, we already ran the "is blocked" test as part of ScanForPlatform.
                        -- Otherwise, run one now.
                        if (my_platform ~= nil and not blocked) or
                                not self:TestForBlocked(mypos_x, mypos_z, forward_x, forward_z, self.inst:GetPhysicsRadius(0), dist * 1.41421) then -- ~sqrt(2); _x,_z are a dist right triangle so sqrt(dist^2 + dist^2)
                            self.inst:PushEvent("onhop", {x = _x, z = _z})
                        end
                    end
                end
            end

Is there any way to stop the constant jumping for AmphibiousCreature players?

[FurryEskimo]

Hello.  ^-^

I know the constant jumping into the water can become frustrating, which is why Wirra can toggle the ability on/off using R.  We considered auto-disabling the ability while standing on boats, but decides against it.

Does that help?