Mouse Position for Observer?

Theme97 · Post by **Theme97** » Tue Jul 25, 2006 9:24 pm

It would be quite interesting to see a little black/red/(random color) dot where the mouse is in the mousebox...

Random idea.

*doubts this will be added*

Hannibal · Post by **Hannibal** » Wed Jul 26, 2006 3:45 am

You mention Observer in the subject, but the post says nothing about obs. There already is the actual mouse, so why you would need something else is beyond me.

Could you explain it a bit more? You've confuzzled me.

pyr0 · Post by **pyr0** » Wed Jul 26, 2006 4:08 am

i believe what he means is to show where the actual players mouse is. so instead of seeing your size box with your mouse in it, see their size box with a little red and black thinger to show off where theirs would be on their screen. maybe without the box idea, but i figure itd be appropriate otherwise you wont know what setting they use so the mouse would be pointless

anyways, as for adding it, unlikely since the server doesnt recieve that information from the game, at least not to my knowledge, so it would need to be put inbetween the 2 clients or the server would have to recieve that data... not possible this version if im right due to protocol

Hannibal · Post by **Hannibal** » Wed Jul 26, 2006 4:54 am

Ahhh! I get it now. Thanks pyr0.

I'd thought about that before, It would be useful.

Post by **joevano** » Wed Jul 26, 2006 8:39 am

Many people use the keyboard, so a mouse indicator would mean nothing for them...

JeffM · Post by **JeffM** » Wed Jul 26, 2006 4:36 pm

the raw user input is not sent to the server or to other players, just the tank postions and velocitys after colisions.

so there would be no data to base said mouse position on. And it would be affected by lag even if we did have it.