Apply some smoothing to the SDL mouse events
- Dominant language
- Rust
- Stars
- 1
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- 0
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Description
Currently, the game's mouse controls feel a bit stuttery when used from the GUI (the LUNA-based input works fine), likely because SDL provides us with a much higher frequency of mouse events, which would trigger the deadzone more often. One way to avoid this would e.g. be to apply a moving average or simply to throttle the mouse events to a lower frequency. We'd have to be a bit careful in the computation of relative positions, especially when the pointer is locked, since SDL's `xrel` and `yrel` seem to refer to the delta between individual events, we'd have to keep track of all such changes even if we decide not to emit `ControllerMessage`s for each.
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Research direction
Start at the SDL mouse-event handling and trace how xrel and yrel become ControllerMessages, including the pointer-locked path. Compare moving-average and throttling behavior, preserving all relative movement when events are not emitted. Done means GUI mouse controls no longer stutter while accumulated relative positions remain correct.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- rust
- Domain
- game-dev
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 45/100