"Strafe" sideways move

[alienfood]

I pushed the changes, described above.

The request for shift-click as an option is reasonable, this will get done eventually. I used SDL to detect key states, so it ought to be cross-platform. It would be nice to hear from somebody that it works on a non-win platform. Turret state is rendered, this has been in there for a while I think.

I have not done much testing with path preview. If you have trouble, turn off path preview and I'll issue a patch.

I could have done a much better job with the soldier-strafe implementation, I will go back and code-clean that section using the learning I acquired during the last week. My thanks to Sup and Warb who waded through and cancelled some of my previous garbage.

[hsbckb]

To be fair, can aliens move in this way?

[Volutar]

i can say - no

[Warboy1982]

going to try to add this today, along with a "run" behaviour with shift+click that uses less TUs but more energy (and cannot be used in conjunction with strafe) as suggested by pmprog on IRC.

[alienfood]

btw I've merged this locally several times, and would be happy to reopen two or three small branches to incorporate the changes a piece at a time.

[Warboy1982]

ok, this seems to be working just fine, as is running, my only issue is that the "path preview" is now inaccurate when running.

[Hythlodaeus]

going to try to add this today, along with a "run" behaviour with shift+click that uses less TUs but more energy (and cannot be used in conjunction with strafe) as suggested by pmprog on IRC.

A little suggestion regarding this: running should temporarily reduce the soldier's FOV, so enemies are harder to spot mid-run (which makes sense since you're not exactly looking around when sprinting). On the other hand, perhaps enemies could suffer a little aim penalty when reaction firing against running soldiers.

[Volutar]

Actually moving objects are more noticeable. Alot of animals sees moving objects alot better, and some of them sees ONLY moving objects.

[Hythlodaeus]

I was talking about the opposite. When running you're less likely to spot something that's still.

[Volutar]

Of course moving units have less chances to spot something, even not still.

[Volutar]

What about diagonal "strafe"? right/forward,left/forward, right/backward, left/backward?

[Warboy1982]

whoops, i forgot to push this. 

this has now been added

thank you alienfood for the contribution!

[kkmic]

Of course moving units have less chances to spot something, even not still.

Are the running units harder to hit by reaction fire? Are they easier to react fire against?

EDIT: Typo