Two Keys ws or wd detection

Questions & Answers
1

I am working on a birds eye view game in which the player uses wasd to move about. However I am running into an issue with this. For example when the player presses w the character moves forward, and when the player presses a or d the character rotates left or right. I would like to have it so so when the player presses aw at the same time It would rotate/move simultaneously.

Current Key Detection:

function OnGUI () {
    //Set up hotkey "w" for Forward
    if (Event.current.Equals (Event.KeyboardEvent ("w")))
    ThurstersForward();

    //Set up hotkey "w" for Forward
    if (Event.current.Equals (Event.KeyboardEvent ("s")))
    ThurstersBackward();

    //Set up hotkey "d" for rotate right
    if (Event.current.Equals (Event.KeyboardEvent ("d")))
    rotateRight();

    //Set up hotkey "a" for rotate right
    if (Event.current.Equals (Event.KeyboardEvent ("a")))
    rotateLeft();
}

Current Resulting Action:

function ThurstersForward(){
    rigidbody.AddForce(transform.forward);
    transform.Find("ThrusterA").GetComponent("EllipsoidParticleEmitter").enabled = true;
    transform.Find("ThrusterB").GetComponent("EllipsoidParticleEmitter").enabled = true;    
}

function ThurstersOff(){
    transform.Find("ThrusterA").GetComponent("EllipsoidParticleEmitter").enabled = false;
    transform.Find("ThrusterB").GetComponent("EllipsoidParticleEmitter").enabled = false;   
}

function ThurstersBackward(){
    rigidbody.AddForce(transform.forward * -2); 
}

function rotateRight(){
    Debug.Log(transform.rotation);
    transform.Rotate(Vector3.up * 2);
}

function rotateLeft(){
    transform.Rotate(Vector3.up * -2);
}

Any Suggestions, Right now only one can be "active" at a time. I looked into using threads but it appeared that unity did not support them.

2

you could use/edit the keys thats unity have set in the input manager. Instead of setting up hot keys? And use `Input.GetAxis` in the fixed update function rather than each key firing off a seperate function

EDIT

if that doesnt work then something like

function FixedUpdate ()
{
    if (Input.GetKey ("w"))
    {
        rigidbody.AddForce(transform.forward);
            //stuff about your particle emitter here
    }
    if (Input.GetKey ("a"))
    {
        transform.Rotate(Vector3.up * -2);
    }
    //etc for the rest of your inputs
}
3

You could just use "q" and "e" for forward left and forward right:

//Set up hotkey "q" for ForwardLeft
    if (Event.current.Equals (Event.KeyboardEvent ("q")))
    {
    ThurstersForward();
    rotateLeft();
    }

//Set up hotkey "e" for ForwardLeft
    if (Event.current.Equals (Event.KeyboardEvent ("e")))
    {
    ThurstersForward();
    rotateRight();
    }
4

I found this works great!

var rotateSpeed = .50;
var thrustSpeed = 5.0;

function FixedUpdate(){
    .......

    transform.Rotate (Vector3.up * (Input.GetAxis("Horizontal") * rotateSpeed * Time.deltaTime) ); 

    if (Input.GetButton("Vertical") ) { 
      rigidbody.AddRelativeForce (Vector3.forward * thrustSpeed * Time.deltaTime); 
    }
}