hyperme
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I feel like this is fairly self-explanatory. A second special command, that can used in scripting. It's difficult to explain why it would be useful, but an obvious use is to select something for the first special command to do.

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More broadly, we could include a new script command "Wait for button press" which has a single argument for the keypress in question. It'll have to update itself with the player's keybindings, and it should be work with _MyScriptX to inject whatever context-dependent keypress the architect wants, but this system would give us a whole slew of new special commands in one neat package.

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The game engine can't detect arbitary keyboard inputs, so a script command to do such a thing isn't workable. Part of the UI's job is to convert player inputs into game commands, which scripts can see. The only way to support new inputs is to add new commands. There's no way around this because demos also supply commands to the game engine, without pressing any input keys.

Indeed, "update itself with the player's keybindings" also doesn't work because only the UI layer has access to the keybindings.

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PR (thanks, hyperme!)

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Hold on, I think this might actually have the potential to break something.

What if someone made a script to detect if the player is moving or not by checking whether they inputted wait or special command? You know, to make something like the challenge in KDD Twelfth Level 1S2E. This would enable players to cheese that by using one of the two new special commands.

Personally, I think just the one special command is plenty.

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Does that challenge actually work that way?

edit: Even if it does it's possible to mess with the wiring so that all current commands looking for special command see any of them being used. Anything is possible with the power of Software Engineering.

edit2: That challenge doesn't work that way - it checks to see if you've input one of the four allowed commands, and if you didn't, you fail. Although I suppose other challenges need to be checked.

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