Scripting help please

Hello, I am in the process of making a small game and I am in need of scripting help!

The game is going to be kind of like Mario Galaxy ( as in being able to jump from one small planet to another). I already have the planets set up, and moving using IPO’s.( i didn’t want to go into calculating, and writing scripts for a small galaxy. .)

Is there a way to get the character to basically stick to a planet once it gets close enough, And be able to jump off? like using the "near" sensor, and combining it with a python script? I'm not sure I'm confused on how to do this :o. Is there already a script for doing something like this? or a tut? thanks for any help/comments.

-Dylan.

Torakunsama was working on something like this - for the gravity local to a planet, you could track the player towards the planet and then move him forwards until he collides. I would personally learn Python for this purpose, though, as it’s more work than a simple script could accomplish (moving towards the planet and then jumping towards a closer one). You could contact the maker of the “Mario game” in the Game Projects forum - he was working on a fan-made Mario Galaxy.

Hi joe! and thanks for the info, and I’ll have to eventually learn python, I might
as well learn now.

-dylan.