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I work on a mod recently. I need to make a new kind of controller. When player press wasd, the character should move around in the scene, but I want the viewport to stay. When player presses some key, say spacebar, the viewport aligns with the character. With the api available now, I have to combine a character entity with a god mod controller in code.
This kind of controller benefits some specific mode. It works way better when player needs to dodge any moving object.

ssilk wrote: ↑

Sun Nov 29, 2020 8:20 am

moved from suggestions to modding requests— ssilk

Thanks. If this feature finally added, it would probably help with the bullet-hell-game mode for the modders.

In the mean time you could also try using a full-screen camera gui element with the default controller.

eradicator wrote: ↑

Tue Dec 01, 2020 12:52 am

In the mean time you could also try using a full-screen camera gui element with the default controller.

But, in this way, it is possible to keep more ui as what we see in general cases?
My plan is that a god mod controller, a separated character entity, and they work together via lua. But I need one more short cut to move the view port. Which might occupy one short cut for items, and I have to code for it.

yagaodirac wrote: ↑

Tue Dec 01, 2020 2:15 am

But, in this way, it is possible to keep more ui as what we see in general cases?

Overlapping guis are always difficult. Making the cam not full-screen but a bit smaller might work.

yagaodirac wrote: ↑

Sun Nov 29, 2020 7:02 am

I have to combine a character entity with a god mod controller in code.

It's just that from my experience using LuaEntity.walking_state doesn't really work in multiplayer due to lag hiding mechanisms - if you are indeed using walking_state.

eradicator wrote: ↑

Tue Dec 01, 2020 1:30 pm

yagaodirac wrote: ↑

Tue Dec 01, 2020 2:15 am

But, in this way, it is possible to keep more ui as what we see in general cases?

Overlapping guis are always difficult. Making the cam not full-screen but a bit smaller might work.

yagaodirac wrote: ↑

Sun Nov 29, 2020 7:02 am

I have to combine a character entity with a god mod controller in code.

It's just that from my experience using LuaEntity.walking_state doesn't really work in multiplayer due to lag hiding mechanisms - if you are indeed using walking_state.

Thanks. I didn't start with this part yet. I'm gonna try it out. Actually I don't mean to make something look like factorio, maybe I would do entity.teleport or something without animation in order to make multiple looks for players to choose from. Don't know if that works well.