Scaffolding: Progress Review Team 5

Description

For our controller we went with the PIPBOY from Fallout New Vegas specifically. Its conceptual relationship with our game is that the character you play as in the game uses the PIPBOY for most gameplay mechanics like equipping items, looking at their inventory, looking at quests and maps, and so much more. The main mechanics of the controller working using motions controls to look around and navigate menus, a light sensor to as the interact button, the 3 different buttons to go to different menus in the PIPBOY like how the character does in the game, a switch to turn on and off to attack, a potentiometer to start the auto walk, and we also have a way to use vats by turning it on by hitting a certain audio threshold with the mic. The visual design and our controller inputs connect well with our game especially the physical design of it, most controls work like the PIPBOY works in game, but we had to make some changes and add some things so we can get the controller to work in game.

Sketch

Schematic

Pseudocode

In void setup 

Start FUNCTION initializeController() 
    Put in CircuitPlayground library 
    Put in HID/Keyboard library 
    FOR each configured button 
        SET the pinMode(button.pin, INPUT_PULLUP) 
    END FOR loop 
END FUNCTION 

// THRESHOLDS and CONSTANTS   

LIGHT_THRESHOLD = 150 // below this lux value → Interact 

TILT_DEADZONE = 0.3 // ignore small accelerometer drift  SOUND_ACTIVATE_SPIKE = 300 // mic amplitude spike → Vats on/off  

POTEN_THRESHOLD = 150 // Walk on/off threshold 

Inputs 

//In void loop 

READ light_sensor // Interact button 

READ ax, ay, az FROM accelerometer // UP, DOWN, LEFT, RIGHT 

READ if pressed FROM button_A // PIPBOY category 1 

READ if pressed FROM button_B // PIPBOY category 2 

READ if pressed FROM button_C // PIPBOY category 3 

READ if Walk_switch is on or off // Main Attack 

READ mic amplitude (Mic_Amp) FROM microphone // Vats turn on/off 

READ if potentiometer pasts certain threshold // turn on walking  

FUNCTION to read inputs readInputs() 
    FOR each configured button 
        READ state = digitalRead(button.pin) 
    END FOR loop 
 
   read analog and motion inputs for aiming and potentiometer for menu 
    analogControlEnabled THEN 
        button.analogValue = analogRead(analogPin)//poteniometer 
     
    motionControlEnabled  
        motionData = CircuitPlayground.motionSensor.read() 
END FUNCTION 

// Mapping to Fallout Actions 

FUNCTION mapInputsToActions() 
    CREATE empty actionList 

           IF light_sensor.state <= LIGHT_THRESHOLD  
        ADD actionList ← “Interact” 
    END IF 
    IF Walk_switch.state == Pressed  

   ADD actionList ← “Main Attack” 

    END IF 

           IF buttonA.state == Pressed  

   ADD actionList ← “Pipboy button 1” 

    END IF 

    IF buttonB.state == Pressed  

   ADD actionList ← “Pipboy button 2” 

    END IF 

    IF buttonC.state == Pressed  

   ADD actionList ← “Pipboy button 3” 

    END IF 

    IF Mic_Amp.state <= SOUND_ACTIVATE_SPIKE 

  ADD actionList ← “Vats On/Off 

// analog mapping 
   IF analogControlEnabled THEN 
        IF analogValue > threshold THEN 
            ADD actionList ← “TURN_RIGHT” 
        ELSE IF analogValue < -threshold THEN 
            ADD actionList ← “TURN_LEFT” 
        END IF 

    IF analogValue > threshold THEN 
            ADD actionList ← “Look_UP” 
        ELSE IF analogValue < -threshold THEN 
            ADD actionList ← “LOOK_DOWN” 
        END IF 
 
    END IF 
IF PotenWalk.state <= POTEN_THRESHOLD 
        ADD to actionList ← “Walk on” 

           END IF 
 
    RETURN actionList 
END FUNCTION