Help with MMM

posted on December 18th, 2013, 12:52 pm

Hi folks,

I'm playing around with MMM, I'm wondering if it supports key press events?

As in, I'm setting up STA2 tutorials and I'd like to have the player press the enter key to advance to the next objective, just like STA2 did.

Can this be done or is there an alternative method?

Thanks

posted on December 18th, 2013, 7:56 pm

It can respond to keyboard commands, one of the turtorials if you open it tell you how to move an akira with WSAD so i suggest taking a look at that..

posted on December 18th, 2013, 10:48 pm

Thanks for the reply mate, I've looked through each tutorial both on the guide and in the lua files and I can't seem to find anything referring to the use of the WSAD keys to move anything.

Can you point me to the specific tutorial you're talking about?

Thanks

posted on December 19th, 2013, 12:04 am

Welcome back Michael

You can find the tutorial here: http://guide.fleetops.net/guide/4e5fe910447c9 Hope that helps!

posted on December 19th, 2013, 12:34 am

Thanks mate

I did look through that tutorial, thought it might be the best lead but wasn't sure as it covers giving chat commands rather than key press functions.
So I'll play around with it some and see if I can figure out a solution. Just gotta figure out how to specify the enter key. lol

Thanks for the help guys, preciate it.


Ok, I've had a good look at the text input tutorial, and although it's pretty clear how to setup a chat command, I still can't find a way to make things happen when I press a key.
Is there (or can someone provide) an example of that specific functionality that I can study?

posted on December 20th, 2013, 10:20 pm

Yes, I can't see a way currently to get keyboard input to set up commands via the tutorials Megadroid originally wrote. It may be something he removed early in development.

posted on December 21st, 2013, 2:21 am

Ok, no worries then. Thanks for the assist.

posted on December 21st, 2013, 10:06 am

I defo remember this was possible, i remember a tutorial that had me controlling an akira with the WASD keys with the objective called catch the pigeon and i was chasing another ship that would move when i moved

posted on December 21st, 2013, 10:14 am

If you can find it, would be great.

posted on December 21st, 2013, 1:31 pm

I have a fear it was in one of the missions when I use to BETA test for him, but the commands were kept in so if you dig around you should find something

posted on December 21st, 2013, 2:00 pm

Ok will keep hunting, thanks mate

posted on December 21st, 2013, 2:07 pm

It won't be clear but from what I remember of my time with MMM you would create a loop to happen after your event for a key press, what the enter key would be defined as I have no idea

posted on December 21st, 2013, 8:44 pm

Mark knows best here - I only tested a few items in MMM for Megadroid so don't really know what's possible besides what's listed in the guide. You might try emailing Megadroid, as that might get you more direct feedback

posted on December 22nd, 2013, 1:30 am

I tried sending him a PM but when I hit send it said he doesn't exist, LOL, and I couldn't see an email address, so I posted here.

posted on December 24th, 2013, 4:04 am

You can find his email address on our team page