Re: [TuxKart-devel] Split screen multiplayer

[James G. <jam...@bt...>]

On Tue, 2004-08-10 at 14:17, Ricardo Cruz wrote:
>  Go ahead! I love multi player games!
> 
>  Just want to say something about the controls. As Steve pointed in an article 
> (sorry, don't have a link), in multi-players games keys should already be 
> pre-configurated.
>  I know this sounds like forcing the player, but it is better than the player 
> setup the keys and then they don't work, without understanding why.
> 
>  So, just want to ask the one that will make the control configuration to make 
> it in the same line as ClanBomber's one (sorry, didn't find a screenshot), 
> where the player can choose between: Gamepad 1 (2, 3... if available), 
> Keyboard cursors, Keyboard left part, Keyboard middle... and mouse (if 
> needed). Each "device" having an image.
> 

Huh? Don't have an option to setup keyboard controls? That's just silly,
there are a number of reasons why you might not want to use the default
setup:

1. You simply don't like the default setup . Maybe you've played so much
Counterstrike you want to use some keys over on left of the keyboard for
cursors.

2. If you have just one player, you will probably want to use the
cursors for movement, but some keys some distance away on the keyboard
for fire, jump, etc (currently we use a,s,d,f). However, if there are 3
or 4 people having to share the keyboard then there's no way you want
player one using a,s,d,f, as someone is probably going to be using
a,s,d,w as cursors.

3. Not all keyboards all over the world have the same key layout. Having
an unchangeable setup is really going to upset people with, for
instance, AZERTY keyboards. Although I'm not sure how common these are
nowadays - I assume you're not using a QWERTZU keyboard, grumbel?

	James