Car controlling problem

[lelkoun]

I installed new Ubuntu and STK few weeks ago. Everything was OK for a while, but recently I noticed that there was a problem with controlling karts (via a keyboard). I cannot fire things behind my car and after several minutes of playing I cannot even use a sharp turn.

I reinstalled STK but it did not help. Any suggestions?
Thanks.

[asciimonster]

Could you check that this isn't a case of simple keyboard overload? See Keyboard Are Evil for explanation.

What is your current keyboard configuration?

[lelkoun]

Keyboard overload? It is possible, but I've never faced this problem before, everything was working just fine (except using nitro boost).

[Auria]

Does it seem related to key combinations, or do the keys totally stop working? If the latter, this is the first time I hear about such problem

[hiker]

Keyboard overload? It is possible, but I've never faced this problem before, everything was working just fine (except using nitro boost).

I think it's a problem of using the shift key. We are using the ASCII key values (iirc that's all we can use portable from irrlicht), so if you use shift some other keys (. and ,) will return different ASCII codes, and therefore not be recognised. You are getting a warning about this when you assign the shift key. Just try using a different key.

I know that's not ideal, but this needs to be fixed in irrlicht.

Cheers,
Joerg

[lelkoun]

Well, I changed all keys to IJKL ZUIJ and then to ZGHJ ERTF, but it did not help - on the contrary, I was unable to turn left and right when I was looking behind the car.

So the problem is probably not in STK but somewhere else. Any idea what might cause this?
I remember that I changed something in Ubuntu Keyboard Preferences → General and Accessibility, but I undoned the changes to default settings afterwards.

[lelkoun]

When I login as a different user, everything works fine. That's weird...

[Kinsu]

I cannot fire things behind my car

I have this problem on my laptop, I think it's because there's too much key pressed in the same time. When I stop accelerating it works, so I took the habit to stop pressing on Z when I throw something behind.