astarphel - Hobbyist, Digital Artist | DeviantArt (original) (raw)

How the Black Mage's Eyes work part 3

May 28, 2019

Now that we have the code and the LEDs, we need to talk about the controls. I've been pushing this off big time because explaining how to do this well is hard. Really it's going to take practice, because with my current version I have 17 expressions that can be called at will and that is a lot to take in. I started off with five, and that wasn't enough. I upped it to nine, which was better, but I was just one expression short of what I really wanted, and when I added a system to add the 10th expression I had 7 other spaces left to fill so... I added a lot. The general outline is I have six buttons total. 4 are on top that work like a Dpad,