BornCG | Godot 3.5: Let's Build a 2D Platformer!: Part 21 (Ladders & Trapdoors!) @BornCG | Uploaded May 2022 | Updated October 2024, 14 hours ago.
Thanks for watching! In this Godot Game Engine tutorial I cover how to add ladders to a 2D platformer game that the player can climb up and down, even from above a platform through a trapdoor - all programmed in GDScript. Here are the video chapter timecode links:

- 0:00 - Video Intro
- 0:13 - This mini-series
- 0:42 - In this tutorial (overview) + example
- 2:08 - Importing the Ladder Sprites (see download mirror links below)
- 3:33 - Drawing the Ladder Tiles
- 9:01 - Making the Ladder Solid
- 11:57 - Setting the 'Ladder' Collision Layer
- 13:47 - Giving Steve a Ladder Checker Area2D
- 17:01 - Allow Steve to Detect Ladders
- 23:57 - Steve's Finite State Machine
- 27:24 - Adding Steve's 'LADDER' State
- 29:14 - Adding Steve's Climbing Animation
- 30:40 - Coding: Climb onto a Ladder with UP or DOWN
- 38:42 - Coding: Steve's Ladder Movement
- 46:19 - Coding: Getting Off the Ladder
- 49:10 - Fix: Climbing Down a Ladder to a Floor
- 50:53 - Coding: Jumping Off a Ladder
- 53:03 - Improving the One-Way Platforms
- 58:54 - Making a Pass-Through Tile (for a Ladder)
- 1:01:32 - Making a Trapdoor
- 1:08:16 - Coding the Trapdoor
- 1:15:22 - Easily Make More Ladders!
- 1:17:35 - Fixing a Bug: Sliding Over Corners
- 1:22:05 - Fixing a Bug: Jumping on Ladders
- 1:23:19 - Fixing a Bug: Heel-Clicking Through One-Way Platforms
- 1:28:19 - Wrapping Up, Call-to-Action, Social Media, Video Outro

*note: In this video I use Godot 3.5 Beta 4. (I didn't experience any issues with the beta).

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DOWNLOAD the Ladder Sprites here:
MIRROR 1: bit.ly/3kSiW3w
MIRROR 2: dropbox.com/s/leyzt5sgt1flp0l/ladder_sprites.zip?dl=0
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