Overhead control questions
by Richard Pettyjohn · in General Discussion · 09/26/2006 (6:19 pm) · 2 replies
I want to make a two player combat game and I need some opinions about controls. I have two different control schemes I've concidered:
(keep in mind you can only shoot out of the front of the vehicle)
Tank style controls: roatate with left and right arrows, move forward and back with up and down arrows.
Free movement (not sure if its called that) controls: left goes left, right goes right, up goes up, and down goes down.
So which one do you perfer? Or is there a better one I haven't yet considered?
Please give me your opinions.
(keep in mind you can only shoot out of the front of the vehicle)
Tank style controls: roatate with left and right arrows, move forward and back with up and down arrows.
Free movement (not sure if its called that) controls: left goes left, right goes right, up goes up, and down goes down.
So which one do you perfer? Or is there a better one I haven't yet considered?
Please give me your opinions.
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09/26/2006 (9:34 pm)
If the game is played from an overhead perspective, then it should use the free movement controls. the tank style controls could get confusing in certain situations. for instance, if the player is moving downward under the tank style controls he'd actually have to be pressing up to move downward which would be totally unintuitive. 
Torque Owner Richard Pettyjohn
Tank is easier to aim, but free is easier to move. So thats kind of a problem.