Bug #592
Reset look angle/dir when closing the control panel
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Description
Currently, the console player's look angle and direction will warp once they leave the control panel. It would be nice if we could re-align the positions so that when returning to the game; the player is still looking in the same direction as when they opened the control panel.
Labels: Controllers
History
#1
Updated by skyjake almost 16 years ago
Updated by The issue is that the input code is updating the relative position of the mouse (and other) axes while the user is in the control panel. When returning to the game, all the movements are applied to the player view angle (or other bound controls).
One solution would be to add a "controller freeze" mode which would prevent all game controllers from being effective. This would also fix the issue that after pressing "Y" to quit in the menu, the mouse can still be used for looking around during the pre-quit countdown and random monster sound. (How about adding a fade-to-black effect during the countdown, btw?)
#2
Updated by danij almost 16 years ago
Updated by Just a thought but wouldn't implementing a bind context for use within the control panel that grabs the devices have much the same affect? We will probably want to do that anyway soon.
I like the fade to black idea.
#3
Updated by skyjake almost 16 years ago
Fixed in revision 6241. Adding a new binding context wasn't enough, though, since the relative accumulation is only cleared when someone is querying for the axis value, and that only occurs when the game is running. Thus a device reset was also necessary.
The fade-to-black isn't done in this commit.
#4
Updated by danij almost 16 years ago
Nice work, though, I've just noticed the same issue occurs when closing the game menu.
#5
Updated by danij almost 16 years ago
The aforementioned issue with the relative axis positions changing whilst the menu is open has since been fixed.