: Keyboard/Joystick controls : kwadroke November 03, 2011, 08:42:13 AM I've recently discovered Coldest and I am excited for the future of this game.
Are there any plans to allow users to use only a keyboard or joystick? I'm considering building a controller for mech games. I have both a keyboard encoder and a joystick controller. I'd rather not have to use a mouse along side the controller in order to join games. Thanks! : Re: Keyboard/Joystick controls : Cybertron November 06, 2011, 10:21:21 PM Yeah, I figured that would probably come up at some point. I don't have any specific plans to add joystick support, but it's something I'm open to. Unfortunately, I think it's going to be a not-insignificant amount of work to make the game usable with a joystick instead of a mouse. Right now the UI doesn't support keyboard navigation at all, and I'm unsure how well the game itself would play with a joystick. Plus I don't have one so I don't currently have a way to test anything. :)
I'll keep it in mind though and see if I can make it happen at some point. : Re: Keyboard/Joystick controls : kwadroke November 06, 2011, 11:04:49 PM If there's more in game keyboard support, joystick support isn't a big deal. I can use a joystick-to-keyboard program suck as joy-to-key or qjoypad to map movement to keypresses.
: Re: Keyboard/Joystick controls : kwadroke November 09, 2011, 10:51:43 AM I've started working on adding keyboard support for the mouse movements. I'm not really a C/C++ & SDL dev so it's taking me a little time to figure stuff out. I've got the view switching working and the beginnings of rotating and looking up & down.
: Re: Keyboard/Joystick controls : Cybertron November 12, 2011, 04:24:13 PM Sounds good. Let me know what you come up with.
If you're going to work on this, it might be worth considering just adding direct joystick support. I assume it works similarly to the other SDL input stuff, so it might be easier than using the keyboard as an intermediary. Just a thought. : Re: Keyboard/Joystick controls : kwadroke November 15, 2011, 02:30:44 PM I've got initial joystick support in the latest git version. I don't have my joystick here, so I still need to test it. I'll add back in my keyboard controls into it sometime this week. The files are on 2 separate PCs.
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