Setting controls

[grayhuskie53]

Hi, I was wondering how you would go about letting the player set their own controls. Would you save the key the chose in a text box and then say that, for jump for example, if they press the key in teh text box it jumps?

[DavidN]

You can do this using the Control-X object - it has conditions that allow you to check for a key by name or value, and if you point it towards a set of global values (or strings in textboxes, like you suggested) then you can change controls by changing those values.

I might do up an example of this - it's a handy trick.

[Mantis]

If you do, try and include joypad controls.

[DavidN]

What I've done in my current game is have a "translation" group at the top that takes input from the joypad and simulates keypresses (but this really needs more workarounds than it's worth sometimes).

[grayhuskie53]

I would really appreciate it if you made a tutorial on this.

Thanks!

[grayhuskie53]

I would really appreciate it if you made a tutorial on this.

Thanks!