Re: [gpquake-devel] gpquake control suggestions

[Ian <ia...@se...>]

I like the idea of the L+R :) It will be handy having another key
available.

I'm not as sure about switching A and B around though. By default K_CTRL
is fire and K_ENTER or K_SPACE is jump, and I think most mods force a
binding to those keys too. Switching the keys will mean that the default
for quake and any mods is B to shoot and A to jump, which seems the wrong
way round to me. People will have to redefine keys for every mod they use
which could get frustrating.

I've been looking at my final problem the last couple of days - corrupted
saved games. I've noticed my smc has been behaving very strange over the
past few days (the card reader lets me copy a few files, then it suddenly
starts saying the card is read only), so I've moved my tests over to my
spare card (freshly formatted). I've been doing tests for a little while
now with the non-corrupt saves I already had, and the corruption hasn't
appeared yet so it looks like I may just have a bad card. I've made the
decision that it's going to be very difficult to try and track down this
bug (if it still exists) so I think I'm going to leave it and see if
people start reporting problems after 0.4 is released.

Basicly what I'm saying is I think the main app is just about ready for a
release (once your L+R addition has been added to the main code). I plan
to make a few minor alterations to the launcher first so it won't be
released tonight. Let me know if you've got some more additions you'd like
to make and I'll delay until you are ready (there won't be a release made 
before I hear from you so don't worry).

Woogal.

On Tue, 7 Sep 2004, Florian Hufsky wrote:

> hi,
> 
> the attached sys_gp32.c contain my gpquake control mapping suggestion:
> 
> changed:
> A: K_ENTER
> B: K_CTRL
> L+R: unpresses L,R and presses A
> 
> with this controls i can play quake like this:
> 
> A: shoot (+enter in menu instead of b)
> B: jump
> L: strafe left
> R: strafe right
> L+R: stop strafing and switch to keyboard look.
> 
> what do you think of it?
> 
> bye,
> Florian
>