Vega-strike-engine-source: Accelerating with \ only works once

[ichbinandy]

Hello I'm trying to build and play the version 0.7.0, but it has some quirks. One of them being, that I only can accelerate to full speed with the backslash once. If I then either stop or decelerate with minus, the backslash does not work any more.

I tried building versions 0.5 0.6 and 0.7 all with the same problem.

[BenjamenMeyer]

@ichbinandy

• what OS/Distro are you using?
• what Desktop Environment (GNOME, KDE, Xfce, etc) are you using?

[ichbinandy]

Hi @BenjamenMeyer,
I'm using openSUSE Leap 15.2 with KDE as Desktop manager

previously I tried to play the version 0.5.1 directly from the repository, but there I could never by ships, because the game froze, when I wanted to look at the ships.

[BenjamenMeyer]

@ichbinandy thanks; yeah 0.5.1 is severely out of date for its dependencies. 0.6.0 primarily only differs in updating the dependencies (there were a couple other things IIRC).

[stephengtuggy]

@ichbinandy Do you have a joystick with a throttle, by any chance? If so, you might need to disable the throttle, so that it doesn't interfere with the keyboard speed controls.

Not sure if that's what you're running into; it's just a thought.

[ichbinandy]

Hi @stephengtuggy No I do not have any joystick, currently I was trying to play with a mouse in glide mode.

[stephengtuggy]

I see.

I will see if I can reproduce on my openSUSE Leap 15.2 virtual machine.

[stephengtuggy]

Well, I haven't been able to reproduce the issue so far, with Vega Strike / vsUTCS 0.7.0 on my openSUSE Leap 15.2 VM. I will probably try a few more times.

@ichbinandy Do you, perhaps, have an unusual keyboard layout?

[ichbinandy]

@stephengtuggy yes, now that you mention it, from your point of view the keyboard layout might be unusual. I use german layout

[stephengtuggy]

Ah. That's probably it. We have some known issues with non-US keyboard layouts already.

[stephengtuggy]

You might try remapping the "full speed" key to another key on the keyboard, as described in the issue ticket I linked, and see if that fixes it.

We'd better bump up the priority on the feature to remap keys more easily, though.

[BenjamenMeyer]

@stephengtuggy let's make that a requirement for 0.9.x; shouldn't be hard to do - just need a dialog that lists all our keyboard functions and then the ability to capture whatever the user presses.

[ichbinandy]

Hi @stephengtuggy thanks, remapping the key worked.

btw inside the config file the full speed is mapped to backslash and that is written inside the xml with "\". I wonder, why this does not break the xml. I'd have expected the backslash to be escaped, so something like "\\" looks more correct.

[stephengtuggy]

Key remapping feature filed as #450

[stephengtuggy]

So @ichbinandy : Would you consider this issue fixed, in the short term by remapping the key in the config file, and in the long term by #450 ?

[ichbinandy]

Hi @stephengtuggy yes for me the remapping resolves the issue.

[stephengtuggy]

@ichbinandy Cool. I'll go ahead and close this ticket then.