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I'm not targeting keyboard-only Doom players with this. I'm targeting modern control schemes that expect the presence of a mouse.

Feel free to move this to closed. I'll figure something else out.

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[quote="Caligari87"]My reasoning:
[list][*]No one uses the strafe key for modern gameplay anymore. Why not give it a potential use for things beyond keyboard-only Doom.
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That's a pretty bold assumption. Have you used all of GZDoom's users?

My reasoning:
[list][*]No one uses the strafe key for modern gameplay anymore. It's not "hijacking" if the mod is intended to be played with a mouse.
[*]I didn't expect the strafe key to be hardcoded in such an archaic and non-intuitive manner. Why not give it a potential use for things beyond keyboard-only Doom.
[*]Custom keybinds are 3rd-world citizens compared to the built-in keybinds accessible from GetPlayerInput or cmd.
[*]BT_USER keybinds are useless until keybindings are saved per-mod.
[*]I hate lean keys and wanted something closer to Arma's "stance adjust" modifier key.[/list]
That said, this seems to be clearly a [No] so I'll either skip the feature or find another way to make it work.

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Indeed. Hijacking Strafe for this does not sound right.

Hmm sounds complicated. In most games with leaning, they just have separate key binds for leaning left and right, without messing with the move left/right keys...

void UpdateMove() {
	let player = self.player;
	UserCmd cmd = player.cmd;
	if (player.onground) {
		legs.vel.xy *= 0.75; //Decelerate
		if(cmd.buttons & BT_STRAFE) {
			vel.xy += rotateVector((moveVec.x, 0), angle - 90) * 5 / player.crouchfactor; //Move head
			torso.vel.xy += rotateVector((moveVec.x, 0), angle - 90) * 5 / player.crouchfactor; //Move torso
			legs.vel.xy += rotateVector((0, moveVec.y), angle - 90); //allow moving forward/back
		}
		else {
			legs.vel.xy += rotateVector(moveVec, angle - 90); //Move legs
		}
	}
}

I'm designing a new movement system for the mod I'm working on. In short, the player actor is just the head; the legs and torso are separate actors. Locomotion is acheived by imparting velocity to the legs, and the torso+head follows on a spring. I want idea to implement leaning (since the player's full-body hitbox is no longer relevant). To do this, I wanted to use the Strafe key as a toggle, to impart velocity to the player's head and torso instead of the legs.

[code]void UpdateMove() {
let player = self.player;
UserCmd cmd = player.cmd;
if (player.onground) {
legs.vel.xy *= 0.75; //Decelerate
if(cmd.buttons & BT_STRAFE) {
vel.xy += rotateVector((moveVec.x, 0), angle - 90) * 5 / player.crouchfactor; //Move head
torso.vel.xy += rotateVector((moveVec.x, 0), angle - 90) * 5 / player.crouchfactor; //Move torso
legs.vel.xy += rotateVector((0, moveVec.y), angle - 90); //allow moving forward/back
}
else {
legs.vel.xy += rotateVector(moveVec, angle - 90); //Move legs
}
}
}[/code]

[url=https://streamable.com/37jgk]This works perfectly (video demo)[/url], except for a small detail: The player's mouse yaw gets pushed into sidemove, meaning the player can no longer freelook and the leaning gets overriden by any mouse yaw behavior. I can take a video demo of this later if desired.

My suggestion is that the conversion/override should be exported to PlayerPawn, so this behavior can be overridden.

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[quote="Caligari87"]I can't override it in the player virtuals it to use the strafe key for anything else.
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You shouldn't, actually. In this case you have to present your use case.

The entire point of the strafe key is to convert turning into sideway move.

if (strafe || lookstrafe)
    side += (int)((float)mousex * m_side);

To add a little more detail, I found this in g_game.cpp
[code]if (strafe || lookstrafe)
side += (int)((float)mousex * m_side);[/code]
What effects would it have if that was changed to just "if (lookstrafe)" ? Mess with expected controller input or something? It seems to me that if lookstrafe is off, it shouldn't override the mouse movement.

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I'm running GZDoom 3.2.5 on Linux.

I've noticed that the [strafe] key is hardcoded to override sidemove / mouse yaw. Is this intentional? Because it seems counterintuitive, and since it's hardcoded I can't override it in the player virtuals it to use the strafe key for anything else.

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