Cruiser Command

Siretu wrote:I'm still not sure if this is a good thing. I have some concerns:

* It will confuse new players more. More buttons on the command card is not good unless it fills a need. Unfortunately, I'm not sure if your needs is big enough for me to consider confusing new players.

* It will mess up camera settings in replays. Replays are already messed up due to camera settings. If I change it in more ways, it'll look even weirder and they'll be harder to watch.

If it's that much of a issue then, ok, let it lay. I certainly don't want to distract you from other changes that add more value. I had dreams of joystick play, but some dreams are only that...

What about binding the <> keys without listing them, that way newbs are not confused and the command card isn't as cluttered.

How are replays affected by new key bindings? Curious about that.

Some camera settings are not reset in replays if I dont specifically reset them. This means that switching between player views will not fix it unless I reset the camera for that player at that exact time. This means that if someone watches your view and you rotate it, it might get stuck in a rotated mode for the player watching the replay until you rotate back.

The problem with putting them on <> and hiding the buttons is that the hotkeys wont work unless they're visible on the command card.

Siretu wrote:Some camera settings are not reset in replays if I dont specifically reset them. This means that switching between player views will not fix it unless I reset the camera for that player at that exact time. This means that if someone watches your view and you rotate it, it might get stuck in a rotated mode for the player watching the replay until you rotate back.

The only thing I might understand here is that if I rotate, then in a replay my ship might get stuck rotating when it should not and the fix requires too much "code vigilance". Darn. Such a simple thing causes such a big problem. Well, one thing I know as a programmer myself is that core code has its quirks, for whatever reasons, and you work with them as best you can. Shame this quirk presents such a formidable roadblock.

Siretu wrote:The problem with putting them on <> and hiding the buttons is that the hotkeys wont work unless they're visible on the command card.

Thought that might be the case.



Hmm, maybe I'll look into reprogramming my fancy mouse to send keys so I can make it a totally mouse-driven rather than gamepad-driven experience. I know one thing: for me, using both the mouse and keyboard at the same time is always harder than using only the keyboard, or only the gamepad, or only the mouse; hence my interest here.