[Feature Request]: Allow binding keys to diagonal movement

[sidav]

Feature Type

Gamepad Controls

Describe

On devices like Miyoo Mini, where there are no diagonals on the D-Pad, the gameplay is not that comfortable because it's not possible to bind e.g. "d-pad up" to "move up and right". Example of where it's needed is the bridge that leads to Adria - I just press the "D-pad down" and "D-pad right" with two fingers.
It would be great to have separate bind options for diagonal movement.

[AJenbo]

What would you bind it to? How would you move to the right if the right button is mapped to south east?

It works perfectly fine on RG300 which has a similar d-pad:

If you cannot push the d-pad in a diagonal direction with on finger there will be a lot of games designed for dpad that won't be very playable.

• Contra series
• Sonic Advance
• Metal Gear
• Street Fighter
• Tetris Attack

[sidav]

I'd simply bind it to the D-Pad and unbind the non-diagonals.

How would you move to the right if the right button is mapped to south east?

Via moving south-east and then north-east. I don't remember any places in the game where moving in cardinal directions is strictly neccessary, whereas there are tons of them where moving diagonally is.

[Trihedraf]

What are you talking about? Diagonals work just fine on miyoo mini. https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/54ec7826-d48c-4ce2-9568-07fcab5512c3

What version of DevilutionX are your running and where did you get it?

[AJenbo]

I guess your assumption is that it would be implemented in a way where pushing two diagonals would result in a non diagonal.

[sidav]

I guess your assumption is that it would be implemented in a way where pushing two diagonals would result in a non diagonal.

Why would this be needed?
My assumption is that it's possible to play without the non-diagonal movement altogether, as there are no places in the whole game which you can't reach without those "cardinal directions", so you actually wouldn't need pressing two keys simultaneously anywhere. From the other hand, there are tons of places where you can't reach with those cardinals only, because all the bridges, doors etc are placed diagonally. Even the level architecture is "diagonal" in the whole game. When I'm playing with mouse, I'm pretty sure I move diagonally more than cardinally because of that.

What are you talking about? Diagonals work just fine on miyoo mini. https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/54ec7826-d48c-4ce2-9568-07fcab5512c3
What version of DevilutionX are your running and where did you get it?

It seems it's not a problem with any version, it seems more like a problem with my fingers. I can't do like you do in the video with a single thumb, as I can reliably get diagonal movement with two finger press only. Too small thumbs, idk. Well, I just thought this request wouldn't be too complicated to implement and it's not game breaking in any way (as this movement already is in the game, it's just not directly accessible), and it may be fully optional, as it's just a keybind.
Thanks for the attention anyways.

[AJenbo]

Hm it's possible that would work. I'll leave the issue open for now.