Movement

[kaka]

The other thing, perhaps you could implement the ability to walk with your keyboard?

Planned, actually, along with more keyboard goodness.
I'm thinking a full-featured keyboard client a la Vimperator.

[kimya]

it would also be good if the char would move to the mouse arrow while holding the mouse button down. like its done in diablo and almost every other game. this constant clicking is a bit exhausting...

[kaka]

it would also be good if the char would move to the mouse arrow while holding the mouse button down. like its done in diablo and almost every other game. this constant clicking is a bit exhausting...

What we have discussed is to add shift-clicking to make the character walk indefinitely in that direction.

[Jackard]

a lot of games have an autorun so that could be useful

but its not as helpful when introduced instead of keybinds or kimya's suggestion... both would be nice...

[loftar]

I also kinda like how movement works in Diablo, but it would be very hard to implement that in Haven; partly because I'm a bit afraid of the steady stream of incoming direction messages from every client, and partly because it would be very hard to make it interact with the movement interpolation in any reasonable manner.

Shift-marching and arrow-key walking should be doable, however. Clicking on the minimap to walk should also be reasonable. :)

[Jackard]

How about WASD too?

Arrow keys are more comfortable for someone using the mouse left-handed

[loftar]

Yeah, I know WASD is more comfortable, but they'd conflict with the menu hotkeys.

[Jackard]

err just how important is it to keep these menu keys were talking about here the same..?

[loftar]

Not a lot, perhaps; but I'm very comfortable with the invariant that all unmodifed alphabetic keys are reserved for hotkeys. It's easier to think that way. :)

[Jackard]

i see.............







so im guessing we'll never get keybinds you can modify, then. shame that