Topic: Increasing arrow key speed
WorldSavior Topic Opener |
Posted at: 2019-05-07, 01:45
In the very first tutorial there is an instruction of the use of the arrow keys. Problem is: The arrow keys move the screen so slowly, it's close to be completely useless. So what about increasing that speed by several times to enable quick shifting? Of course it shouldn't be too fast, but we seem to be far away from that. Wanted to save the world, then I got widetracked Top Quote |
kaputtnik |
Posted at: 2019-05-07, 07:58
Bug report: https://bugs.launchpad.net/widelands/+bug/1827992 Fight simulator for Widelands: |
GunChleoc |
Posted at: 2019-05-09, 09:29
How about some dynamic acceleration here? Start slow, and if the player keeps the arrow pressed, increase the velocity. Busy indexing nil values Top Quote |
WorldSavior Topic Opener |
Posted at: 2019-05-09, 17:40
If the acceleration is high (enough) - why not? At the other hand it will be hard to move a long distance then, and if one wants to move only a short distance it could be too slow. Wanted to save the world, then I got widetracked Top Quote |
GunChleoc |
Posted at: 2019-05-10, 08:55
The acceleration would of course need to be capped so that it doesn't converge towards infinity. I am thinking it could be as simple as
Then play with the numbers until it feels right. Busy indexing nil values Top Quote |
WorldSavior Topic Opener |
Posted at: 2019-05-12, 23:37
By the way: Many strategy games have a very good feature - if the mouse hits the edge of the screen, there is a perspective movement into that direction (unaccelerated). Isn't that better than needing to hold right click and moving the mouse all the time? Wanted to save the world, then I got widetracked Top Quote |
Nordfriese |
Posted at: 2019-05-13, 09:14
Does anyone actually use the sloooww arrow keys to navigate currently? Why not just increase the normal movement speed.
Only if it´s optional, I personally dislike edge-scrolling Top Quote |
hessenfarmer |
Posted at: 2019-05-13, 14:30
Me too. I dislike edge-panning as well. Top Quote |
WorldSavior Topic Opener |
Posted at: 2019-05-13, 19:41
I do it sometimes. Maybe more people would use the keys if the speed would be higher.
Because the key movement speed is to slow and should be faster because of this. Increasing the normal movement could be and additional feature which makes sense.
imho it could be optional. But maybe it should be default (after installing the game) because many people expect this feature in a strategy game? Wanted to save the world, then I got widetracked Top Quote |
Nordfriese |
Posted at: 2019-05-13, 19:52
I did not explain well… I meant increasing the default speed of the arrow keys instead of implementing automatic acceleration or modifier shortcuts. The mouse movement speed is fine as it is.
Agreed, after all most games have that (annoying ) feature Top Quote |