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[hawkwind]

As I upgrade my game to the current xith, I realize aspects of what I am doing might be better implemented in the FPIH code.

Continuous move forward - I use the middle mouse button tp drive the view forward, mouse down move - mouse up stop.  I use the center of the bounding sphere of the shaped3d that the mouse button selects as a destination point.  It would be nice to have methods to "move continuously towards object X" or "move continuously forward in the current view direction"

I saw in one of the new test cases you use the CTRL to toggle between view tracking and view independent movement.  I do a similar thing only I used the rightmost mouse button.  In addition I make use of a number of cursurs based on view tracking/non tracking, mouse over pickable object, etc.  It would be cool to supply a set of methods one could override to describe to the FPIH what to do in certain conditions.  Now I have not really thought this through but suppose the FPIH had a Configuration class and a set of methods like MiddleMouseDown().  In it I could describe what to do and the FPIH would execute different methods based on user interactions.

public void middleMouseDown()
{
  Configuration.setCursur("blah");
  Configuration.setContinuousMoveForward(true);
  Configuration.setCollisionDetectionActive();
  Configuration.setViewTrackingMouse(true);
}

or

public void middleMouseDownWithCTRL()
{
  Configuration.setCursur("blah-blah");
  Configuration.setContinuousMoveForward(false);
  Configuration.setCollisionDetectionActive();
  Configuration.setViewTrackingMouse(false);
}

or we could treat things like a bit field where a user described actions for particular bi settings and then drove the FPIH by setConfiguration("0x3A")

public bit8Set()
{
Configuration.setCursur("blah-blah");
}

public bit16Set()
{
Configuration.setCursur("blah-blah-blah");
}


does this make sense??

[Marvin Fröhlich]

Well, most of it is already possible (except for thsi Curus thing. What the hell is this? dict.leo.org doesn't know it and me neither.)

(I have applied a few fixes. So please update xith from SVN.)

To start continous movement forward you would do the following:

Code:

fpHandler.getKeyStatesManager().getKeyStatesManipulator().setKeyState( KeyCommand.WALK_FORWARD, Boolean.TRUE );

and to stop it again (and give the control back to the real key-states):

Code:

fpHandler.getKeyStatesManager().getKeyStatesManipulator().setKeyState( KeyCommand.WALK_FORWARD, null );

Do deactivate collision-detection (and simulation with it):

Code:

fpHandler.getPhyiscsObject().setCollisionsEnabled( false );

(The activation is obvious.)

To make the View face a certain point you can simply use the following code:

Code:

view.lookAt( point );

Or to use a known direction, but not a point:

Code:

view.setFacingDirection( vec );

After this you would have to invoke:

Code:

fpih.updateViewInverse();

and start the continous movement forward like above.

The Cursus (which I guess, is some kind of behavior) is more something for a CameraFlight or another utility class, but not for the FPIH.

I'm currently working on mouse-button-to-key-state mapping, which would enable you to (effectively) bind key-states to mouse-buttons, which is currently effectless. Then you can simply bind the middle-mouse-button to the WALK_FORWARD command like you would do for any keyboard-key.

Marvin

[hawkwind]

Cursus???...meant cursor...little graphical image that is moved by the mouse...hee hee sorry for the crap typing skills

[Marvin Fröhlich]

Cursus???...meant cursor...little graphical image that is moved by the mouse...hee hee sorry for the crap typing skills

Ah . Ok, the HUD has a Crosshair feature, that is meant exactly for this.

Marvin

[Marvin Fröhlich]

You can now simply bind a mouse button (almost) like a regular keyboard-key to a FPIH KeyCommand. There are special key-codes for the mouse buttons in KeyBindingsManager.

Do it like this:

Code:

fpHandler.getKeyBindingsManager().bindKey( KeyBindingsManager.MOUSE_MIDDLE_BUTTON, KeyCommand.WALK_FORWARD, KeyBindingsSet.SECONDARY );

Marvin