Player Controls

[Kodiakwarz]

What is it you are trying to achieve?
<I'm trying to make an option in my bomberman game so that you may change the controls of a player because certain people have certain preferences. I was just wondering if somebody could give me some base code and/or explain to me how to do this since I have tried and failed miserably so I'm am turning to the good people of comsci for help>

[DemonWasp]

Right now, you probably have some code that looks like the following, assuming you're using Input.KeyDown():

Turing:

if keys ( 'a' ) then     % go left because player pressed A end if

You should change it to:

Turing:

if keys ( control_left ) then     % go left because player pressed left end if

Then you need to have a separate settings file that your program can read. Then you need a way for a human to change the file. Either it should be possible to change the file manually (human-readable), or your program should be able to change it for the user (or both).

[Raknarg]

If you wanted to have a choice between arrow keys and chars, you would use 2 if statements.

Turing:

if key (KEY_LEFT_ARROW) or key (KEY_RIGHT_ARROW)  or key (KEY_UP_ARROW)  or key (KEY_DOWN_ARROW)  then      % set keys here as arrow buttons else      % set keys here as letters end if

Chars and KEY_LEFT_ARROW aren't interchangable (as far as I know), so its a bit more difficult to use them at the same time.

[Raknarg]

You could even make it simple and ask the user for their key preference (either arrows or WASD).