Sorry?

I actually had an idea for something involving stickie feet a few builds ago, but I suck at actors and had no clue what I'd be doing so I kept my mouth shut. The theory is sound, but the application is quite retarded.

Long skinny feet, only 1 pixel high, with AEmitters on the toes that make tinny holes in the terrain right in front of them, so the feet fit into the walls and stuff like a key. Unfortunately that would require A) new walkpaths for climbing, B) they'd probably get stuck, And C), it would be retarded. I got the idea for this trying to figure out if it would be possible to make a tripod or something that could climb over anything, with long spindly legs... between massive sprites, massive walkpath problems, and the probably need to script everything with lua, resulting in massive lag, I figured it was way over my head and threw away my idea... This reminded me, and figured I'd throw out this old-ass-idea from back when we could only use lua in specific scenes.

Oh yeah and they'd fall right through terrain too.

Okay here I go typing on my cell again.

So I tracked down the actors foot and hand groups in base.rte and switched out my barrowed one from the drednaught. Again I replaced rubber with my own mat. Tested a few things 1 friction can go higher than 1 dispite what mats says. Try 9 its funny, 2 reduced structural integrity which reduced terrain rape (higher friction seems to equal more rape) , and 3 I added pinstrength for fun to the hands and feet, maybe its my imagination but it seemed to help.

after all that I have to say climb path appears to be what's stopping this from working the most.

pinning the limbs wont do anything except possibly make them not move when you gib..
however yes, it will be the pathing. dont do anything with >1 friction, you'll just pull your bunker to pieces. make a footgroup with a | shape on the front of it so you get more friction with walls.

I do still plan on implementing your suggestions geti I'm just testing variables for effect.

quick question. Isn't the climb-path just a 90 degree rotation of the crawl path?

It doesn't look like it but I will test that, I need to edit climb path anyway.

all you'd need to do to test that, is make a gif of each, and then rotate one of them 90 degrees. to me it's always looked like with climbing it trys to brace itself with the hand, but can't find the ground under it, because its in front of it. meanwhile crawling they tend to bend at a weird angle like they're trying to keep balance or something.

Crawl path is just legs. Climbing is arms and legs.

I'm pretty sure the crawl path is the legs as well as the background arm. Let me see if I can make a gif...
Edit: Here's the gif

Then i was mistaken.

So far this isn't working, it seems like a unaltered actor actually sticks better if he flys into a wall then if I alter the foot group. I'm feeling a bit frustrated with this.

just lua it. grab the legs with lua, cast some terrain rays from them diagonally in whatever direction the actor is facing, and if the actor is moving in that direction then apply some vertical velocity. logic shouldn't be in that order, but I'm tired.

You could Possibly Tinker around with the Mass and Sharpness of the foot itself.... (Strange that a foot would have the variable 'Sharpness')