#22610 - sgeos - Fri Jun 25, 2004 5:03 am
What is the best way hook various game objects to either the keypad or various prerecorded (and other) input streams? Hooking everything to one or the other is easy- just use a different key state update function. (ie Do not read from KEYINPUT directly.)
Do I want to keep a list of input streams and point each object to a member of the list? (Update each stream every frame.)
Is there a better way of doing this?
-Brendan
#22618 - keldon - Fri Jun 25, 2004 12:28 pm
sorry I'm in a rush, but ...
http://www.dkauk.com/klogic/concept.htm -describes concept a little
http://www.dkauk.com/klogic/projects.htm -go to sequencer, and has ASM sourcecode + theory
#26050 - keldon - Sun Sep 05, 2004 1:23 am
did you get your answer in the end?
#26052 - sgeos - Sun Sep 05, 2004 4:22 am
Page 223 of Design Patterns (chain of responsibility) gives a pretty good object oriented solution. It's basically the same problem that OS GUI writers face when they send messages to various window objects.
-Brendan
#26062 - phonymike - Mon Sep 06, 2004 8:49 am
just an idea for pre-recorded input for say a demo mode:
have a mode where the game plays as normal, only in this mode a variable is set to record input. you simply play through for however long, and while playing the input is recorded every 60th of a second. then to replay your inputs, reset the game and use the recorded input instead of the key input.
#26068 - DekuTree64 - Mon Sep 06, 2004 5:56 pm
Yeah, that sounds like the easiest way to do it. I was thinking it would soak up a lot of space to be storing the register value every frame, but simple RLE compression would cut it down to only a few bytes each time to actually press/release a key, so it wouldn't take much at all.
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#26077 - DialogPimp - Mon Sep 06, 2004 11:15 pm
| phonymike wrote: |
| just an idea for pre-recorded input for say a demo mode: |
Yep that's how Andre Lamothe did it in "Tricks of the Game Programming Gurus".