Mobile Joystick

Catacomber

I'd like to try ORK's joystick controls and found this--see below--which I think would take care of the movement joystick---usually the lefthand button on the screen---but how do I set up the righthand button to control the camera if you rotate the joystick on the right side---

first person : )

Thanks for any help.

It's actually pretty simple:

set the element's Control Type to Joystick
select the 2 input keys you you're using for horizontal (key 1) and vertical (key 2) movement
set the element's size, axis center and image size to the values you need e.g. element size of X=0, Y=0, W=200, H=200, axis center X=100, Y=100 and image bounds X=-25, Y=-25, W=50, H=50

gamingislove

By pretty much doing the same thing, but either as a 2nd HUD using a different GUI box (e.g. placed at the lower right corner of the screen), or by copying that HUD element and changing the element's bounds to be at the right side (i.e. X would need to be increased).

Having both in the same HUD will require the GUI box to be big enough for that :)

Catacomber

This may be a stupid question, but how do I hook up that control on the right side to the first person camera. Movement I know the keys for vertical and horizontal are used but for the camera?

gamingislove

If your camera doesn't use ORK input keys, that'll naturally not work :)

Catacomber

My camera uses ORK's keys. : ) So the input keys for the camera (vertical and horizontal) will allow the player to turn the camera and look around? Does the camera use separate horizontal and vertical keys? How do I tell the right joystick it's hooked up to the camera. A little uncertain here. Thanks.

Same question for PC version--how do I let the player look around. I know the wasd arrows can be mapped to keys but how does the first person camera work?

It's been a long time since I set up a PC version and have never done it with the ORK Framework. One of my best beta testers only uses the PC so have to set things up for him.

If I just choose the First Person camera on PC, will everything work fine for the player looking around? In other words, when they touch their mouse to the screen they can rotate and look around?

Thanks again. Fuzzy on this. Looking at the Ork demo it looks like the camera just works on pc as long as you set it up to use Ork's camera. And have a vertical and horizontal key set up.

gamingislove

If those input keys control your camera, setting them with the HUD will control the camera. If your player and camera control use the same keys, you'd control both at the same time even when not using a control HUD to set them ...

PC version first person camera still uses input keys - by using Unity inputs in the input key (Unity Input Manager), you can use e.g. the mouse movement for that.

Catacomber

Thanks so much! : )

I think that answers my questions. I know I was asking about apples and oranges as mobile and PC are two different platforms but you set me straight on both I think. : ) Thanks again.