A Little Confusing...

[Greekgifted]

It all started when my joystick broke, doesn't want to turn right all the way. Too lazy to get a new one.

And then it dawned on me, I have a Wiimote! So I went about connecting it to my laptop, and now I can control the mouse/joystick/whatever with the Wiimote.

My question is this, for anyone that is familiar with this device: What should i map the different axes to for controlling my ship in Vegastrike? The Wiimote can do pretty much any movement in air and has a nice set of buttons too.... So if anyone has any ideas.....

[loki1950]

First off what OS are you using as that will define to tools at your disposal,then have a look at VS's log files specificity stdout near the beginning look for something that looks like this

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1 joysticks were found.

The names of the joysticks are:
    Logitech Inc. WingMan Force 3D
axes: 4 buttons: 7 hats: 1

this from mine then we start figuring out the order the buttons are in.

Enjoy the Choice

[Greekgifted]

I am running Slamd64 Linux 12.2, and the buttons are not what I am concerned about. Guess I should have been more specific. The Wiimote (officially the Wii remote control) is kinda complicated. It has a motion sensor the tells me when it is tilted or moving. I can map these axes to an axis used in Vegastrike, for example. This is not a problem.

What I would like input on is what to associate the twists and turns of the remote with. e.g. twist my right hand to make the ship roll.

So uh... How do i get the logs (stdout) to pop up? I will try that and see what I get.

Thanks!

[loki1950]

Just run Vegastrike from a terminal with

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./vegastrike 2>vserr 1>vsout

That will separate the output streams you won't need the ./ if you installed VS for all users the ./ tells bash to run the cmds files in the current directory.and the vsout vserr files are text files

Enjoy the Choice

[Greekgifted]

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1 joysticks were found.

The names of the joysticks are:
    Nintendo Wiimote
axes: 5 buttons: 0 hats: 0

Hmmm, guess I still have a lot of work to do. I do have it set up for 5 axes right now, can do 3 more I think but 2 of them should be showing up as a hat switch I think... And again don't worry about buttons those I have down pat

Controllers in 3D is all very confusing.

[loki1950]

Just did a quick Google.Linux search should be something of use http://www.google.ca/linux?hl=en&q=+Wii ... arch&meta= and with Slamd64 being Slack base you should have not to many problems

Enjoy the Choice

[Greekgifted]

Yeah I looked at a lot of different options, but an X driver? Cool, I'll have to try that. But that's not really what I was getting at. Using cwiid I can make my wiimote act as a mouse just fine.

What I'm looking for is where to map the different axes. Connecting is no good unless you tell it to do something

I wanted to see if anyone had any ideas on how to configure it for Vegastrike, what a twist should do, what the IR sensor should do, etc...

So if anyone has any ideas, would greatly appreciate it! Trying to keep this all straight in my head is a pain.

Thanks!

[tfc_generalKMK]

well as far as I can figure a twist in your wrist would do only one thing make the ship act like you pressed / as that makes the ship roll around in a circle

i have the problem of ctrl not working all the time so i don't know if it isn't a command or not but a shift / might making it roll the other way so configure it to be turning your wrist the other way

sorry i am not much help on this and this part you probably already know

[loki1950]

i have the problem of ctrl not working all the time so i don't know if it isn't a command

This is on windows i assume and a known issue with the SDL.dll while on the mac it's the "alt" key that does not work no problem with the Linux version of SDL hopefully we can find a newer version soon that corrects that.

Enjoy the Choice

[Greekgifted]

If you need to roll your ship back and forth insert and delete work nicely

Yeah I got the "wrist twist" to roll my ship, and now to aim my ship currently I'm using the pointing feature. So the more I point to an edge or corner of my screen the more my ship moves in that direction. Problem with this though is that its hard to fly straight ( you have to hold the remote really still and point it right at the center of the sensor bar). Still looking for ways to translate hand movements into ship movements...

I might find a way to lower the sensitivity, after which I'll be good.

[Turbo]

This is potentially a very cool and intuitive way to control your ship.

[Greekgifted]

It is cool. What I have to do is figure out how to adjust the sensitivity of the different movements. Right now you have keep both hands absolutely still, or face spinning out of control. And I still need to figure out which buttons I need on the remote, because if I reach for the keyboard then my ship starts spinning again.

Maybe I need to try a different driver, the one I have is good, but there might be better....