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Pawn Input

To help operate your Pawn you might want to provide some special input data from the clientside.

Client Input Properties

You can mark properties on a Pawn or Entity Component with the [ClientInput] attribute.

Properties with this attribute are automatically serialized and sent to the server.

Building Input

Every frame BuildInput() gets called clientside. The static Input class can be used to grab raw input data and then use that data to set any properties with the [ClientInput] attribute.

// An example BuildInput method within a player's Pawn class. [ClientInput] public Vector3 InputDirection { get; protected set; } [ClientInput] public Angles ViewAngles { get; set; } public override void BuildInput() { InputDirection = Input.AnalogMove; var look = Input.AnalogLook; var viewAngles = ViewAngles; viewAngles += look; ViewAngles = viewAngles.Normal; }

Simulate

Every tick clients send a Command that contains the values constructed from BuildInput. This command then gets simulated in Game.Simulate( Client ) for each client.

Within Simulate( Client ) the static Input class contains inputs specific to the currently simulated client, this allows you to run the same code on both the server and client for Prediction.

// An example Simulate method within a player's Pawn class. public override void Simulate( Client cl ) { if ( Input.Pressed( "jump" ) ) { Velocity += Vector3.Up * 100f; } Velocity += InputDirection * 400f; Rotation = ViewAngles.ToRotation(); }

Button State

A [ClientInput] property can also be a ButtonState. This struct lets you treat an input as if it were a button, so that in Simulate you can get whether it was "pressed" or "released" or whether it is "down". This can make stuff like couch co-op easier.

[ClientInput] public ButtonState Jump { get; set; } public override void BuildInputs() { if ( IsPlayerOne ) Jump = Input.Down( "jump" ); else if ( IsPlayerTwo ) Jump = Input.Down( "drop" ); } public override void Simulate( Client client ) { if ( Jump.Pressed ) { Velocity += Vector3.Up * 100f; } }

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