Re: [Alephmodular-devel] Re: CVS Troubles (was Re: Map Editing and Liquids (and Project Builder / CVS woes))

[Kevin W. <lu...@ea...>]

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> On Monday, February 17, 2003, at 04:19  PM, Jamie White wrote:
>> On Sunday, Feb 16, 2003, at 00:47 Europe/London, Kevin Walker wrote:
>>
>>>  4) Jumping (I've thought of a workaround, but it makes all weapons 
>>> single-firing mode only, and would be pretty ugly)
>>
>> This is already in there. it's a cheat code. If you make your own 
>> build, it shouldn't be too hard to re-arrange this to make it more 
>> readily useable.

The way you say this, it sounds like you assume I CAN make my own build 
and re-arrange stuff.  I basically signed up for this list because I 
wanted to see how a new stab at the Marathon 2 Open Source Project 
would go, and so I could make the occasional, um, "Public Service 
Announcement" (:p).  My function on this list is probably more of a 
beta tester than anything else, though with a dash of mapmaker thrown 
in.
Also, though, how is jumping handled in the cheat code? (and how do you 
activate/use it?)  This is actually the first time I've ever heard it 
referenced as a fact (I vaguely remember, back in the day, that people 
found that jumping is in no configuration of the action flags, and that 
Jason and Alex decided that jumping wasn't realistic in current 
implementations and that jumping wouldn't led to better gameplay), so 
forgive my confusion.  Is it the same as the Forge "jump" key (allowing 
for indefinite flight), or is it actually honest-to-goodness "attain 
parabolic trajectory through air by shoving off from the ground with 
legs"?

On Monday, February 17, 2003, at 04:55  PM, Br'fin wrote:
> Still, at some point (far distant, alas) I'd not mind trying to expand 
> the action flags.  Thus letting some sub-project have more available 
> actions and be able to map them to normal keys and have them handled 
> in a way which works with both network and replay facilities.
And also, on 2/18/2002, Woody Zenfell, III talked about being able to 
change some of the currently-hardcoded (I think) key presses.

All I have to say is that, if you allow the user to remap volume keys, 
etc., I don't think that you should put them in the action flags.  Why? 
  Because, if I were watching a replay, I wouldn't really want my volume 
adjusted during the game by the players.  Not really a big thing, but 
something I thought of.

-Lunair