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

[Woody Z. I. <woo...@sb...>]

On Thursday, February 20, 2003, at 12:37  PM, Kevin Walker wrote:

> jumping is in no configuration of the action flags

Right, so a "jump" executed with the cheat code (I don't know much about 
this myself, never tried it, but there is no "jump" action_flag) would 
not be replayed on a film (resulting in incorrect playback), and would 
cause instant out-of-sync in a netgame.

> 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.

Right, clearly this sort of thing has no business in action_flags.  
action_flags describe what a player is doing, not what a user is doing.  
I brought it up because we were also talking about key configuration - 
and if these preferences keys could be unified with game-control keys at 
some level, it would be easier to make them configurable, to add more of 
them, etc.

Woody