Save / Load game controls

[Vincent]

Hi guys!

One of my friends that is testing my game was asking about this: when you start a new game (at run time), you modify the controls to bind new keys, then save the game, then close the game, then restart the game and load it, the controls you modified come back.  I wasn't even aware of that!  That's great!   

The thing that upsets him though is that the controls are not loaded when you open up the game, he has to use the default controls to load up his saved game and recuperate his custom controls.

I wonder if it is a good idea the separate the save/load of the controls from the save files.  If they were separated, I could load the controls right when the game launches, but only one configuration could be saved... 

What do you guys think about that?  If it's much work to split the data, I think I won't do it.  My efforts would be better invested in making the game I think.  But if you have a good ideas, I'm all ears!

Thanks guys!

[TheLaw]

I don't think I'd do anything about that. To me a complaint about 2 or 3 maybe 4 keystrokes and 2 seconds time isn't much to squabble about. But that's my $0.02 

[Vincent]

Yeah, I must admit that I'm not too motivated to change that feature.   

But I was asking anyway in the case someone had already done something similar.

[TheLaw]

That's small potatoes! Haha. Like you said, you've got bigger fish to fry. Later, if the spirit moves you, you can do that sorta thing at the end during a final polish.

[Vincent]

Yeah, I guess so!

Thanks TheLaw. 

[bluemonkmn]

This should be quite easy since the feature is already designed to be supported.  Just call IncludeInSaveUnit and pass "PlayerOptions" as the parameter.  Then only the player's control settings will be saved when you call SaveGame.  When you load it, only those preferences will be loaded.

[Vincent]

Cool!  Thanks bluemonkmn!

I'm still not sure if I will implement it, but it's good to know that it's easy to do.