Introduction: Heya, Gimkit lovers, I’m Jack. I’ve made a guide called “The Ultimate Guide to Creating a Voting system” And I’d like to follow up with a few more. In this particular guide, I will be covering how exactly to add and track height in your platformer map. Let’s get right on in!
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NOTICE: This is not an original guide, I made this exact guide about mid September 2025 and it got flagged for off-topic posting. I’d still like to have this guide for you all, but I’d like to limit the replies on this topic if that’s alright. It was largely my fault to begin with so, I will do my part to no longer continue this issue.I’ve seen this guide created before, but none of the images are functional, and I was wanting to create my own with images. Memory for this guide can be up to 4% as the Player Coordinates Device itself is 3.5k memory alone. I think to actually build this, it’s surprisingly easy, especially with the brand new addition of the aforementioned Player Coordinates Device.
You Will Need:
Devices:
- Game Overlay
- Player Coordinates Device
- Property Device
Here are the three steps, (the last two are optional) in order for you:
Step 1: Propery Configuration
Step 1: Get your property, and configure your property within your map to be set to a Number property, give it “player” Scope and name it Height. Scroll down, and change the channel that will be broadcasted when the property is updated to “Height”.
Step 2: Player Coordinates Configuration
Step 2: Grab your Player Coordinates Device, and set the “Update Properties” tab to “Yes” and have the “Y” property be our new property “Height”.
Step 3: Game Overlay Code
Step 3: Grab your game overlay, and set the content and visibility scope to player. Set the overlay’s text to display to be “Height: 0m” Next, create a new block, and tell it to run when receiving on the channel “Height”.
Insert this block code into the game overlay:
The following steps are optional and are not necessary to include but are still considered great features to add to your platformer.
Step 4: Broadcasting on the Leaderboard (Optional)
Broadcasting on the Leaderboard: This is optional, and may be specific to each platformer you make, but, just in case you want to show the players height on the leaderboard as well, I thought I might include this bit.
Broadcasting on the Leaderboard: Alright, let’s go to our map options, and go to the “Score” tab. In this tab, we will configure all options to these settings:
Step 5: End Of Game Widget (Optional)
Broadcasting on an End Of Game Widget: If you’ve got a different thing that you’d like to use as a means of scoring instead of Height, you can broadcast this on an end of game widget device. Here’s how:
Configuration: In your End Of Game Widget, set your tracked item to a “Statistic” next, set the property to track to “Height”. Beautiful!
Ending: Outstanding! We’ve built a Working Height Tracker in our Gimkit Creative platformer map! Hope this was helpful, and also enjoyed! I’ll see you in the next one!
-Jack, Out!
:D.
