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What type of controls do you use for your 6DOF game?

Posted: Mon Sep 12, 2005 5:54 pm
by zbriggs
Controller Survey

http://coredecision.highoctane.biz/modu ... ys&pollI14

What type of controls do you use for your 6DOF game?

Re: What type of controls do you use for your 6DOF game?

Posted: Mon Sep 12, 2005 6:10 pm
by BUBBALOU
zbriggs wrote:Controller Survey

http://coredecision.highoctane.biz/modu ... ys&pollI14

What type of controls do you use for your 6DOF game?
good thread for just that info

Posted: Mon Sep 12, 2005 6:14 pm
by zbriggs
We are looking for a poll of the generals on controllers. We have it on our site and the information is actually for another company who is seeking to create the perfect Descent / Core Decision controller.

Zach

Posted: Mon Sep 12, 2005 7:44 pm
by pipsqueak10
Perfect Descent/Core Decision Controller, I'll take twenty!

Posted: Mon Sep 12, 2005 7:49 pm
by Couver_
zbriggs wrote:We are looking for a poll of the generals on controllers. We have it on our site and the information is actually for another company who is seeking to create the perfect Descent / Core Decision controller.

Zach

Hope they have seen the movie Firefox and don't put a swear filter in...

I can just see it now "I thought turn left you stupid arse controller!!" followed by a nice zap to my grape.

Posted: Mon Sep 12, 2005 8:39 pm
by Sergeant Thorne
A controller for Descent? They had better engineer a wonder of versatility, comfort, and durability, or it'll be a joke.

I look forward to seeing it.

Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2005 9:57 am
by Richard Cranium
pipsqueak10 wrote:Perfect Descent/Core Decision Controller, I'll take twenty!
If they make it perfect you should only need one. That darn hat switch is always busting on my controller. It lasts about 2 or 3 months then it's in the trash. I would like to be able to separate the left hand controls from the stick so I could mount them to my gaming chair on each side.

RC

Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2005 1:24 pm
by El Ka Bong
... a surgically implanted controller ..?

Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2005 1:33 pm
by MD-2389
Personally, I use my Logitech Wingman Strike Force 3D in tandum with my keyboard.

Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2005 3:55 pm
by Grendel
zbriggs wrote:.. the information is actually for another company who is seeking to create the perfect Descent / Core Decision controller.
Impossible for so many reasons I don't know where to start :) Strongest point is probably that everyone has his/her own idea of a perfect 6DOF controller. Right after that would be a commercial aspect, a 'perfect controller' would not break in the warranty period (up to 1 year). This would make no sense since it would make the controller hillariously expensive as well as saturating a very small market very quickly.

Logitech tried a 6DOF controller, the CyberMan II -- even it's probably the perfect (affordable !) 6DOF controller there is, guess what happened ? :P The technology survived in the SpaceBall 5000, a 6DOF controller for the pro CAD/CAM segment. Too bad it's not an HID joystick..

Don't get me wrong, I'd love to see a 6DOF controller that won't break and that I could use. But I seriousely doubt that it'll happen.

Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2005 5:29 pm
by Sergeant Thorne
I use a stick with my right hand, and the keyboard with my left.

Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2005 5:43 pm
by Ferno
sorry gren you are so far off base on that one you may as well be coming from the moon. :)

Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2005 6:42 pm
by Grendel
Thought the poll was the place to drop off info about the setup.. :)
Grendel wrote:4 Axis stick (3D Pro, not using throttle) w/ hat plus left hand controller (DX1)