remapping for custom action maps

#1 Could you explain HOW you did it? I have been trying to get my wheeled vehicles turning to be controlled by the keyboard but haven't figured it out yet. If you have time could you explain it in detail for me?

#2 Err... sure! I assume you got your vehicle working and mounted and controlled via mouse/keyboard?
Well, simply steering with the keyboard is easy, although it's not very comfortable (see my current other thread concerning this...
Anyhow, here's what I use at the moment...
steerLeft and steerRight do exactly the same as turnRight/turnRight for now (in default.bind.cs):

function steerLeft( %val )
{
   $mvYawRightSpeed = %val ? $Pref::Input::KeyboardTurnSpeed : 0;
}
function steerRight( %val )
{
   $mvYawLeftSpeed = %val ? $Pref::Input::KeyboardTurnSpeed : 0;
}

As soon as the vehicle is mounted (player.cs, Armor::onCollision()), I push a new ActionMap:

CarDriveMap.push();

The ActionMap itself is in my car.cs:

new ActionMap(CarDriveMap);
CarDriveMap.bind(keyboard, "right", steerRight);
CarDriveMap.bind(keyboard, "left", steerLeft);
CarDriveMap.bind(keyboard, "up", moveForward);
CarDriveMap.bind(keyboard, "down", movebackward);
CarDriveMap.bind(keyboard, "q", applyBrake);
CarDriveMap.bind(keyboard, "+", increaseCamDist);
CarDriveMap.bind(keyboard, "-", decreaseCamDist);
CarDriveMap.bind(keyboard, ".", increaseCamOffset);
CarDriveMap.bind(keyboard, ",", decreaseCamOffset);

and I pop it in Armor::doDismount()...
does this help??

#3 sweet thanks

EDIT
Could you post your "applyBrake" function too?

#4 It worked like a charm, many Thanks. Also how would you make it so the mouse doesn't effect the steering anymore. I got the keyboard working but the mouse also control the wheels. The ultimate plan is to bind the mouse to a turret on the car.

#5 Well, preventing the mouse from steering is an easy one, simply remap it to something else:

CarDriveMap.bind(mouse0, "xaxis", moveTurret);

To get the applyBrake function working was a bit tricky,
cause in wheeledVehicle, the "brakes" were bound to trigger[2], which is the jump trigger and which is used to unmount from any vehicle, unfortunately...
So you have to change the trigger, I use the "fire" trigger for braking now:

void WheeledVehicle::updateMove(const Move* move)
{
   Parent::updateMove(move);

   // Break on trigger
   //mBraking = move->trigger[2];
	// changed from jump to fire trigger, cause jump is used for dismouting... (beffy)
   mBraking = move->trigger[0];
   ...

Then, applyBrake simply activates the fire trigger like this:

function applyBrake(%val)
{
   $mvTriggerCount0++;
}

So now anytime I press "q" or the firebutton (which is still mapped for firing, too), my car is braking... and "space" (aka "jump") is still unmounting the player from the car.

#6 Anyhow, does anybody have solutions for me to get these mappings into the options screen or resetting the steering to the center after releasing the "steer" keys?

#7 Well, I don't know if you'd consider it a solution... I ended up duplicating most of the existing code under a new name and pane in the options dialog. I need to come up with a more elegant solution, but it seems to work well enough for the time being.