How to check if any key is down in Lua

[Slastraf]

Question above.

[Thirsty Panther]

From the FPS script to turn on the flashlight.

 

if window:KeyHit(Key.F) then

 

A complete list of keys here

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

if window:KeyHit(Key.F) then

[extenz]

I don't think he wants to do that for every key on the keyboard tho I think he wants something like "Key.Any" instead of "Key.F", unfortunately I don't think there's anything like that.

[Slastraf]

I want to have this feature for my thrid person player, if any key is down the player is controlled by the camera, else theres a free looking around (the object) camera.

This feature should be accessible for us because of things like that and also maybe a start menu .

[Genebris]

You can loop through all keycodes instead of using Key calss.

window:KeyHit(70) is the same as window:KeyHit(Key.F)

[Undac]

If you use cpp: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms646299(v=vs.85).aspx

 

Otherwise, I don't really have a solution for your question, but this is an idea: you can have a global var that gets incremented (by +1, or relative to time) on each frame, but you reset it to 0 whenever a key assigned to an action is pressed. When this global var is bigger than a set value, the "free looking camera" function is triggered.

 

I haven't used much LUA, so I will write in pseudo-code:

 

//let's suppose that you want to trigger the auto camera if the player didn't touch any key in 5000 frames

freeCameraTrigger = 0

 

//in your gameMain function:

if (freeCameraTrigger < 5000)

freeCameraTrigger = freeCameraTrigger + 1

else

MoveCameraFreely()

end

 

if (KeyDown(Key::Alt))

<actions>

freeCameraTrigger = 0

end

 

if (KeyDown(Key::W))

<actions>

freeCameraTrigger = 0

end

 

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