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Re: Quake - looking up and down easily

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From: ava... Richard Weber
Date: Fri, 11 Nov 1994 15:35
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Andrew Leonard (aleo...@access1.digex.net) wrote:

: iD, here's an idea; make looking up and down easy by just having the 
: PageUp and PageDown keys do it! In the System Shock demo, you had to move 
: the mouse up to the icon, and back again, etc. Pgup and Pgdn would make 
: it much easier.

I have an even better idea, let the user choose which keys they can use 
to do it with.  As it is, I use numeric keys 7 & 9 (Home, PgUp) to strafe
left and right.  So for me I'd probobally use + & - to look up and down.  
Next best thing for me.  But still, the idea of hard coding the keys to 
do whatever is ancient and all of the good action games should not (IMHO 
of course) have the keys hard coded.  Instead they should allow the user 
to choose the keys and save that configuration to file.  Long Live DOOM 
and may Quake truly shake my world.

--
   Rich Weber
       (Ava...@esu.edu)


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From: ava...@esu.edu (Richard Weber)
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Subject: Re: Quake - looking up and down easily
Date: 11 Nov 1994 15:35:14 GMT
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