Re: [TuxKart-devel] Split screen multiplayer

[Ricardo C. <ri...@ae...>]

Em Ter=E7a, 10 de Agosto de 2004 16:08, o James Gregory escreveu:
> 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.
>
 That's a good point, but the fact is that it is better to just let the pla=
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select from a few default key arrangements than let him choose himself, sin=
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it will eventually end up with a configuration that doesn't work.
 This gets really problematic with multi-player.

> 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.
>
 I guess you haven't heard of ghost keys... because it is actually due to 3=
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and 4 players that default key arrangements are needed.
 If they all play using the keyboard, most likely there will be problems wi=
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the keys *.

> 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?
>
 Dunno how games solve this issue, maybe having different key arrangements =
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different keyboards layouts.


* Please, read these articles to understand the issue:
http://sjbaker.org/steve/omniv/keyboards_are_evil.html (by Steve Baker - se=
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to be offline, at the moment)
http://www.arcadecontrols.com/arcade_input.shtml#KeyboardGhosting

Cheers,
 Ricardo

> 	James
>

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