Interaction from the player that corresponds to action in the game. Or in simpler terms - pushing buttons!
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record and replay directinput events
I am trying to build a record and replay system for a couple of games. I was wondering if I can make a general replay engine using directinput rather than doing an specific implementation for each ...
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Checking for alternate keys with XNA IsKeyDown
I'm working on picking up XNA and this was a confusing point for me.
KeyboardState keyState = Keyboard.GetState();
if (keyState.IsKeyDown(Keys.Left) || keyState.IsKeyDown(Keys.A))
{
//Do stuff...
...
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Making an interface for input in C - How?
I have a big question. I started to develop a simple 3D engine (or should I call it framework?). I use OpenGL for rendering and it is developed for Windows. It is all written in C.
But I don't know, ...
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Inputting cheat codes - hidden keyboard input
Okay, here's what I want to do - when the player is at the main menu, I want them to be able to type in cheat codes. That's the only place I want it to work. I don't want to give them a text box to ...
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1answer
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Synchronizing input, update and rendering threads
How do you synchronise the input-handling, state-updating and rendering threads?
If a sprite position is modified due to input, the wrong position of the sprite might be drawn to the screen if the ...
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2answers
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Java applet game design no keyboard focus
THIS IS PROBABLY THE WRONG PLACE. POSTED ITHERE (STACKOVERFLOW)
I'm making an applet game and it is rendering, the game loop is running, the animations are updating, but the keyboard input is not ...
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1answer
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Managing the user input
I'm studying a good number of articles about this topic and seems to me that there is just one way to do this: a signal/slot design.
I was also looking at some more complex async examples but I don't ...
2
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1answer
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How to handle input for both UI and game
So I originally had my input system set up with only the game part in mind. It listens to keyup/down events, marks the key as pressed/unpressed and then when the next update comes around, it sends ...
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1answer
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Supporting Multiple Input Devices
I'm currently developing a PC game with the assistance of XNA and I'm integrating keyboard and gamepad control support. Up until now I've only supported gamepad control, and finding an elegant way to ...
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C# XNA Handle mouse events?
I'm making a 2D game engine called Clixel over on GitHub. The problem I have relates to two classes, ClxMouse and ClxButton. In it I have a mouse class - the code for that can be viewed here.
...
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2answers
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Using two joysticks in Cocos2D
Here is what I am trying to do: With the left joystick the player can steer the figure and with the right joystick it can attack.
Problem is that the left joystick seems to get all the input, the ...
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2answers
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Action button: only true once per press
I'm using SFML2.0 and am trying to make a wrapper class for my controller/joystick.
I read all the input data from my controller and send it off to my controllable object.
I want to have two types of ...
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2answers
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Observer Pattern Implementation
To teach myself basic game programming, I am going to program a clone of Pong. I will use the Observer design pattern, with an interface between the input and the game engine. However, I'm not sure ...
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3answers
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Detecting extremely fast joystick button presses?
Is it usually possible for the player to press and release a button within a single frame, so that the game engine doesn't have time to detect it?
How do programmers usually handle this situation? ...
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2answers
559 views
Efficiently checking input and firing events
I'm writing an InputHandler class in XNA, and there are several different keys considered valid input (all of type Microsoft.XNA.Framework.Input.Keys). For each key, I have three events:
internal ...
15
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2answers
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How to make a character jump?
I am currently making a game in C# using Direct X 9.0. The game remake is Donkey Kong NES. I have nearly everything completed, but I am having problems with the physics of Mario's jump. I have ...
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2answers
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What is the best way to handle MouseEvents in AS3?
What is the best way to handle MouseEvents?
Should I add an event on each MovieClip I want to work with, or a general Event at a holder MovieClip (or even at the stage) with internal control from the ...
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Windows Events lag behind
I'm making a simple openGL application and so far I can get the window to display, the update/render loop work, and it processes windows events (like WM_QUIT and WM_MOUSE). I've found though that ...
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1answer
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Game testing using mock input
In this post Patrick Hughes suggested, and michael.bartnett was kind to explain a bit how to do that. While it seems rather clear how to implement and use it, I'm still a bit doubt if this useful ...
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2answers
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What is a library for event-driven mouse and keyboard input in Java?
The title basically says it all.
The only thing to take into consideration is it needs to be cross platform.
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Voice Commands Using Microphone [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Voice input in games beyond voip chat
I recently made a game where you say something into the microphone, and the computer repeats it, but I was wondering how to make ...
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2answers
119 views
How much to bake user input in a client-server?
Assume a client-server game where there server manages all state and the clients are simply rendering / input.
How much should I bake user input from the client before sending it off to the server?
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4
votes
1answer
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libGDX Multitouch Controls
Has anyone had any trouble implementing multitouch on-screen controls in libGDX, such as multiple joysticks? I've tried and I can't seem to get libGDX to play nice with multitouch/multiple pointers on ...
2
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4answers
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Implementing pausing functionality
I'm working in LWJGL and trying to implement pausing when the user presses the 'P' key. Thus far I have this:
boolean gamePaused = false;
while(!Display.isCloseRequested()){
...
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vote
2answers
439 views
Detecting a click on a tile
I'm making a simple tile-map system in LWJGL, and I'm trying to figure out how to detect if the mouse is clicking inside of a tile. So far no matter where I click it's always the same tile that is ...
3
votes
3answers
679 views
How to refactor and improve this XNA mouse input code?
Currently I have something like this:
public bool IsLeftMouseButtonDown()
{
return currentMouseState.LeftButton == ButtonState.Pressed && previousMouseSate.LeftButton == ...
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votes
3answers
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Is it possible to detect two different mice at the same time, and have their movements recorded seperately?
Im thinking of making a game that requires two mice to play. It needs to register the movement separately from one another. Is this possible? Or does the Windows architecture not allow for such ...
3
votes
1answer
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XNA mouse position in windows forms
I am using this code in Update method in XNA RenderControl in Windows Forms:
...
Mouse.WindowHandle = renderControl1.Handle;
MouseState stat=Mouse.GetState();
...
Everything works fine but when I ...
2
votes
2answers
745 views
How can I map thumbsticks to cardinal directions?
I've got a tile based game that has notions of moving up, down, left, right and the diagonals (by alternating horizontal/vertical movement).
I've found that if I use the default ...
3
votes
2answers
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Is this aiming mechanic usable in a third-person top-down game?
Long story short: I've switched to a third person - top down perspective. The camera is fixed and looks down at the player. How can I implement 3d aiming ? The player needs to aim left and right as ...
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3answers
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How can I stop looking for keyboard input for a length of time?
I'm pretty new to programming, and even newer to C# and XNA. I currently call a method that looks for keyboard input in my Update method. This method has if statements for doing what needs to be done ...
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1answer
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Delay The Polling Events Of Xbox360 Gamepad With XInput
My team and I are currently developing a 2D platformer with SDL/OpenGL and we want to add support to the Xbox360 Gamepad with the XInput library from Microsoft, but we are currently having a problem.
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2answers
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What is the best way to funnel input to the correct entities?
I have an input pipeline that stores InputObjects into a queue, which I then iterate through once every frame.
while(!inputQueue.isEmpty())
{
InputObject inp = inputQueue.pop();
boolean ...
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vote
1answer
130 views
How can I throttle certain player actions?
Background
I have a variable time step, component based game, with components that collectively hold an entity's properties and different systems that act on entities with certain required ...
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votes
1answer
566 views
How to move a 2d sprite to a target location while avoiding obstacles?
How can I get a 2d sprite to move to a position clicked on the screen, without bumping into other objects? I'm programming in java using the android API library
I have created a surface view and ...
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votes
1answer
464 views
A pattern for a contextual InputState in a Game State Management architecture
Context of the question :
When developing a game using Game State Management I came across a problematic when it came to handling user input : I want my game to retrieve user input a single way, but ...
2
votes
3answers
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Does VK_SNAPSHOT not send a WM_KEYDOWN; only WM_KEYUP?
On my machine, every key sends a WM_KEYDOWN message except for SysReq/Print Screen key: which only seems to send WM_KEYUP.
Is this actually the case?
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1answer
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SFML - Moving a sprite on mouseclick
I want to be able to move a sprite from a current location to another based upon where the user clicks in the window. This is the code that I have:
#include <SFML/Graphics.hpp>
int main()
{
...
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votes
3answers
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How do I simulate the mouse and keyboard using C# or C++?
I want to start develop for Kinect, but hardest theme for it - how to send keyboard and mouse input to any application. In previous question I got an advice to develop my own driver for this devices, ...
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4answers
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How can I process continuously-held keys with SDL?
I have created a cube in opengl using SDL. Now I am trying to move the camera in X direction if user presses left or right arrow keys and Y direction if user presses up or down arrow keys. Right now ...
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votes
1answer
2k views
How move sprite in Java 2d (swing) with keyboard?
I'm practicing some simple techniques with Java swing games, to learn the basics. Right now I'm practicing how to move a sprite... but it's not working! whhyyyy
Here is what I've come up with so far ...
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votes
2answers
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Is there a universal method to send key or mouse input to any application from C#?
I need method or group of them to send signals to any application (browsers, games, et cetera) about mouse movement or key input.
I can easly retrieve an IntPtr to any process, but I don't know what ...
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votes
2answers
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How do I design a game framework for fast reaction to user input?
I've played some games at cca 30 fps and some of them had low reaction time - cca 0.1sec. I hadn't knew why.
Now when I'm designing my framework for crossplatform game, I know why. Probably they've ...
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2answers
463 views
Ogre3D: customize water demo
On the water demo supplied with Ogre3D's SDK, controls are set to actually control the camera and environment, but not actually the ogre head that generates the disturbances. I tried digging into the ...
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votes
3answers
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How do I organize my game into multiple classes in C#?
I've made two simple 2D games while following tutorials for the XNA libraries, and I wanted to make something myself, with only the knowledge I gained from these tutorials.
This will be my first ...
2
votes
2answers
401 views
How do I handle user input with good class structure/architecture for an Android game?
How do I handle user input having "good" class structure and following normal game architecture*?(see below). At first I didn't think this question was Android specific, although, after seeing a great ...
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votes
5answers
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Identifying connected lines drawn free-hand by a user
I have a series of 'images' described by a mixture of connected lines and curves. Users will draw on the screen, free hand, and my goal is to break their drawing down into a series of lines and curves ...
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Correct way to abstract an XBox Controller
I've got a XBox360 controller which I'd like to use as input for an application.
What I can't work out is the best-practice way to expose this via an interface.
Behind the scenes, the class which ...
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votes
2answers
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how can I move an actor in opposit direction of mouse's position in GameSalad?
I have a moving actor named ball and I want to move it in the opposite direction of my mouse's position.
In my code in Move To behaviour for X-axis location I write
-game.mouse.position.X
and ...
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votes
1answer
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How does an Input Pipeline work?
I found this article on implementing an input pipeline for Android, but I don't really understand how it works. I also don't completely understand the programming concept of a pipeline or a pool ...
