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[Cuajin]

In my game I want the player to shake his phone, at any point during the game, and every shake will result in switching weapons.
Example: Player has knife, [shakes phone] and switches to a katana.

if (accelerometer.x >= 5 || accelerometer.x <= -5
   || accelerometer.y >= 5 || accelerometer.y <= -5
   || accelerometer.z >= 5 || accelerometer.z <= -5 )
	  switchWep();

This works, the problem is it has a side effect.When the player shakes the phone sometimes it switches weapons twice. So I want to limit it so that if there is a big shake the game doesn't switch from weapon 0 to weapon 2.

Please help.

[Bluefirehawk]

I guess the problem is that he shakes for too long, and the phone registers the shake as a new action, thus your code is called again.

The simplest workaround would be that the switchWep(); uses timestamps when the weapon was switched the last time. When the timestamps have a smaller than for ex. 0.2 seconds difference, switchWep() does nothing.