[HELP] Car clutch system

[kuwalda]

Hello.

I was just messing around with trying to make vehicle clutch system when changing gears.

The code looks something like:

  
function setPlayerGear( key, keyState ) 
    if ( key == "num_add" and keyState == "up" ) then 
            if playerGear < 5 then 
                playerGear = playerGear + 1 
                local sound = playSound("grind.wav") 
                setSoundVolume(sound, 0.3) 
        end 
    elseif ( key == "num_sub" and keyState == "up" ) then 
        if playerGear > -1 then 
            playerGear = playerGear - 1 
            local sound = playSound("grind.wav") 
            setSoundVolume(sound, 0.3) 
        end 
    end 
end 
  

And it works fine when changing gears, but when I tried to add Cluch system, where player must press LCTRL and then they are allowed to change gear, i failed. I tried something like:

if ( key == "num_add" and keyState == "up" ) and ( key == "lctrl" and keyState == "down" ) then 

But it didn`t work. Maybe someone see where is the problem and can help me out.

[Dealman]

You could make use of the function getKeyState to see whether lctrl is being held down or not.

[Karuzo]

You could make use of the function getKeyState to see whether lctrl is being held down or not.

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Which event are you using to trigger this function?

[kuwalda]

I use

bindKey( "num_add", "both", setPlayerGear ) 

EDIT:

Okey thanks, I got it working with:

if  key == "num_add" and ( getKeyState( "lctrl" ) == true ) then 

But how do I force player to release the button, so its not like just driving and holding LCTRL all the time to switch gears?

Something like freeze vechile movement speed or... any ideas?