Hi there, I'm back with another little function very usefull for keyboard players : THE AUTO CLUTCH...The problem is that with a keyboard, you can't brake, control the car, engage a lower gear and engage the clutch in the same time so, these little adds can simulate an auto clutch which simply reengage the clutch after a gear change...so first, we create a variable which will be true when the auto clutch system is activated.in vamosworld.h :<pre>private bool auto_clutch;</pre>we deactivate it by default : (in vamosworld.cc at the begining of the constructor)<pre>auto_clutch = false;</pre>ok now the main part of this function, we got to reengage the clutch after having changing the gear. Go in vamosworld.cc in DoOp and change the code like this :<pre> ... else if (dofunction == "disengage_shift_up") { world->focused_car ()->car->disengage_clutch (0.2); world->focused_car ()->car->shift_up (); if (auto_clutch) { DoOp("engage", 0, 0, false, 0, 0); } } else if (dofunction == "disengage_shift_down") { world->focused_car ()->car->disengage_clutch (0.2); world->focused_car ()->car->shift_down (); if (auto_clutch) { DoOp("engage", 0, 0, false, 0, 0); } } ...</pre>ok now it can be usefull to be able to activate it thru the Option menu. First we will create the function called by the menu item like this (in vamosworld.cc : end of file)<pre>void VAMOSWORLD::ToggleAutoClutch(){ auto_clutch = !auto_clutch;}</pre>we got to declare the function, so in vamosworld.h :<pre>public ToggleAutoClutch();</pre>Now we got to link the menu item and the function, it can be done like this (in menu.cc : Go) :<pre> ... else if (curmenu == "HUDToggle") { //ToggleFPSDisplay(); world.ToggleHUD(); Go("Options"); } else if (curmenu == "ClutchToggle") { world.ToggleAutoClutch(); Go("Options"); } else { ...</pre>and we can now create the menu item, to do it, simply go to runtime/list/menu and in the Option file, add (before the "back to main menu" button) :<pre>Toggle Auto-clutchClutchToglle !</pre>ehe there we are ! there's a last problem, the player has to know when the auto clutch is activated, let's go in vamosworld.cc : DrawHud and we add this at the end of th function :<pre>if (world->auto_clutch) { cy += 0.01; sprintf(tempchar, "auto clutch engaged"); font.Print(cx, cy, tempchar, 1, 5, 1, 0, 0, 0); cy += 0.02;}</pre>now, rebuild with make, copy src/vdrift in runtime/ and enjoy it poor keyboard player
I don't know if this little add respect the game spirit but it really really helps the keyboard players so why not this in the next release ?
