A Walk key for keyboard players (the movement keys can only run) #2344

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opened 2026-11-11 15:21:50 +00:00 by mooki000 · 1 comment

mooki000 commented

2026-11-11 15:21:50 +00:00

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The idea

On the keyboard Link can only run. The movement keys push the left stick all the way (host/nn_hid.c, * 32767), so
a player without a controller cannot walk: on narrow ledges, when sneaking past guards, or just for a slower pace on a
path. A controller player tilts the stick a little; a key has no "a little".

What I would like: a Walk control on the Controls page (keys only, Caps Lock by default, rebindable like Move
forward) that makes the movement keys tilt the stick only part of the way while Link walks, with two rows on the
Controls tab:

Walk mode: Hold (Link walks while the key is held, the default) or Toggle (one press walks, the next runs again).
Walk speed: how far the keys tilt the stick while walking, 15% to 90%, default 45%.

Controllers, the mouse and the camera keys would stay as they are.

Anything else

Measured in the game (Kokiri Forest, headless runs with the stick scripted at each share): Link's slowest walk is
1.03 m/s at 15% of the stick and below, his walk tops out at 1.47 m/s at 45% to 50%, from 55% he speeds up into a jog,
and at 100% he runs at 4.50 m/s. That is where the default (45%) and the lower end (15%) come from.

Caps Lock because no other default control uses it and it sits beside A and Shift, so it can be held with WASD; its
cost is that it still switches capitals in other programs at each press, so the key can be rebound.

I searched the issues for "walk", "walk key", "walk keyboard", "slow walk", "walk toggle", "caps lock" and the
collected requests in #1007 and found no request for this. The nearest are #1782 (separate buttons for roll and
sprint, closed into #1007) and #2020 (a Movement speed choice on the Debug tab, which makes Link faster, not slower).

Claim: I am working on this (#2345 is open with it, its test, the measurements and pictures). Score by docs/workflow.md: S3 (a
feature, weight 1) x reach (keyboard players) x confidence 1.0 (built and tested here). Hardware I can test on: Linux
(Arch), RTX 4090 with NVIDIA 615.78.08, and an Intel UHD 770 with Mesa 26.2.5. Not Windows, and not a real keyboard in
the game so far (my runs are headless, with the keys held by a test probe).

### The idea On the keyboard Link can only run. The movement keys push the left stick all the way (`host/nn_hid.c`, `* 32767`), so a player without a controller cannot walk: on narrow ledges, when sneaking past guards, or just for a slower pace on a path. A controller player tilts the stick a little; a key has no "a little". What I would like: a **Walk** control on the Controls page (keys only, Caps Lock by default, rebindable like Move forward) that makes the movement keys tilt the stick only part of the way while Link walks, with two rows on the Controls tab: - **Walk mode**: Hold (Link walks while the key is held, the default) or Toggle (one press walks, the next runs again). - **Walk speed**: how far the keys tilt the stick while walking, 15% to 90%, default 45%. Controllers, the mouse and the camera keys would stay as they are. ### Anything else Measured in the game (Kokiri Forest, headless runs with the stick scripted at each share): Link's slowest walk is 1.03 m/s at 15% of the stick and below, his walk tops out at 1.47 m/s at 45% to 50%, from 55% he speeds up into a jog, and at 100% he runs at 4.50 m/s. That is where the default (45%) and the lower end (15%) come from. Caps Lock because no other default control uses it and it sits beside A and Shift, so it can be held with WASD; its cost is that it still switches capitals in other programs at each press, so the key can be rebound. I searched the issues for "walk", "walk key", "walk keyboard", "slow walk", "walk toggle", "caps lock" and the collected requests in #1007 and found no request for this. The nearest are #1782 (separate buttons for roll and sprint, closed into #1007) and #2020 (a Movement speed choice on the Debug tab, which makes Link faster, not slower). **Claim:** I am working on this (#2345 is open with it, its test, the measurements and pictures). Score by `docs/workflow.md`: S3 (a feature, weight 1) x reach (keyboard players) x confidence 1.0 (built and tested here). Hardware I can test on: Linux (Arch), RTX 4090 with NVIDIA 615.78.08, and an Intel UHD 770 with Mesa 26.2.5. Not Windows, and not a real keyboard in the game so far (my runs are headless, with the keys held by a test probe).

NotRexed commented

2026-11-11 21:31:34 +00:00

(Migrated from github.com)