Things to do for next version

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Things to do for next version

09-17-2006, 04:03 AM,

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QNev Wrote:Probably the wrong thread but I could start a parking lot level in Blender and maybe someone could finish it off with some texturing? :?

Go for it. We need such a track.

Alright here's a long-due update on my work on Mouse controls. Tonight I have tried to tie up some loose ends related to this. First off, I have converted the sliders that used to appear when mouse controls were enabled, and displayed the mouse input. Now I have changed this to a general input graph controlled by an option in the Display menu.

Sort of unrelated, I have added a toggle option in the Display menu to turn car shadows off. Later when we have some dynamic shadows, I'll change this option into a selector to choose which type of shadows to draw (if any). This and all the above mentioned stuff is in SVN r1243.

I've found a lingering bug related to the work I've done on mouse controls. I've noticed that when I have both mouse and joystick controls defined, only the last one I added (mouse or joystick) works for a given control. In the VAMOSWORLD class in the ProcessControls method, there is a loop which iterates through each of the controls and gets out the values to use and the function to apply. When it's all done with the loop and has processed all the controls then it commits the steering values (at least this is how I think it works). I tried moving the steer_commit call inside the loop, but it didn't help, in fact less controls worked than before...

Otherwise, mouse controls are completely customizable now and all traces of the old hard-coded mouse controls stuff is gone. While I was poking around tonight I also cleaned up vamosworld.cc and vamosworld.h a little, reorganizing, deleting empty functions, and removing long-commented code. I didn't change much but the files are much shorter now.

So, summary of mouse controls stuff remaining to be done:

still not sure what to do about scroll wheels
mouse definitions cancel out other control types
mouse controls could have better graphics (though that could also be said for many other control types...)

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