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13th December, 2004 at 15:59:13 -

If a lot of people cant, that may cause problems with my new game

Well, probably not, because I can just make CPU's instead.

Basically, the commands are 3 tiered for each character
1st: Q,W,E,R,T
2nd: A,S,D,F,G
3rd: Z,X,C,V,B

Players should be able to hold all 3 buttons to make the 3 individuals do different things.

Could this be a problem?

 
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13th December, 2004 at 16:00:22 -

By the way, I dont mean if you physically cant. I mean if the keyboard wont let you

 
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13th December, 2004 at 16:07:19 -

I foresee problems with that system. Are you expecting one button from each tier to be pressed at the same time? Just see how hard it is to press Q, Z and T at the same time. Unless your are planning for more than one person at the keyboard, where pressing all those buttons may look like a nerdy game of Twister.

 
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13th December, 2004 at 16:07:29 -

I think it's standard with all PC keyboards: three or four is the maximum, some combos may allow more though.
We really need a DirectInput extension though, MMF relies on window messages which suck for these kinds of reasons. With DirectInput keyboard presses/mouse clicks etc. would never "lag" at low FPS rates, and it'd probably support more than 3-4 keys pressed at a time.

 
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13th December, 2004 at 16:13:56 -

Q and T couldnt be pressed at the same time. One moves the character and one performs a special move. IE They cant be used together. (not with my code anyway)

You mean like Q,G,Z? I didnt think of that...

I think probably the most players i expect in this game is 2. Unless i make a minigame or something.

This game will have 3v3 matches and stuff. And since each 'tier' of keys works a character, it could be pretty difficult.

 
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13th December, 2004 at 16:19:59 -

Hold on let me check...

qcsssssssssssssssssss

Yeah, my keybroad let's me.

 
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13th December, 2004 at 16:41:17 -

My keyboard does 6 simultaneously - any more loses the pressed keys.

Nobody's going to be able to control three characters simultaneously (even two is a pain) so can't you simplify it and use a switch button?

 
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13th December, 2004 at 16:41:45 -

directinput would lock the keyboard while the game is active, so that game crash = reboot

anyway, some keyboard don't let you press space and right, some don't let you press ctrl+left, no matter which game/OS it is

 
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13th December, 2004 at 16:43:56 -

I guess 2 cpu for each team is in order (3 in the case of one player mode).

It wont be like deleting 100 years of work. Thanks for all the fast replies everyone!

 
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13th December, 2004 at 17:30:17 -

my laptop only has 3 presses at any one time

 
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13th December, 2004 at 17:42:20 -

It differs from keyboard to keyboard, but some keys are special. Like, my old keyboard could only do three no matter what, but my laptop can manage three plus one arrow key, and my wireless keyboard that I use sometimes can do three plus multiple arrow keys.

 
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16th December, 2004 at 14:14:19 -

My old computer could stand 4 presses and Linux ignores the number of presses

 
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16th December, 2004 at 17:25:24 -

Pay attention. It's a keyboard thing. It has nothign to do with the OS.

 
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16th December, 2004 at 18:46:19 -

I found this out when playing toejam and earl on my megadrive emulator. Me and my sister both used the keyboard and only one of us could walk diagonally at any one time.

 
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17th December, 2004 at 09:54:18 -

Strange. I used to play with my brother AND sister at the SAME time with the same keyboard. Some stupid 3-player platform shooter. But I think it involved a lot of button mashing and combo moves. Definitely no trouble with >= 6 buttons at the same time... (until someone ends up pressing alt and enter at the same time)

 
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