Reynaldo
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Maybe a Wii joystick would work better? Don't know if there's an app like DS4windows for it to emulate a Xbox controller.
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Riddlewire
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@Malo Have you ever tried one of these?
https://xbox.fandom.com/wiki/Microsoft_SideWinder_Dual_Strike
Perhaps the MS Sidewinder is the answer you seek?
https://xbox.fandom.com/wiki/Microsoft_SideWinder_Dual_Strike
Perhaps the MS Sidewinder is the answer you seek?
OMG I remember those.
Wouldn't this or one the countless similar ones be exactly what @Malo is after? There's stick for your moving and you still get keys for macros/rest of actions
www.razer.com
PC Gaming Keypad - Razer Tartarus Pro | Razer Europe
Featuring Razer Analog Optical Switches that allow for a more measured and nuanced form of control in every gameplay
At first it always reminds me of old Crysis mods. I'm looking forward to more games like this.
Creation of new physical controllers is such a cool job to think about IMO. The kinematics alone are just crazy: so many differently sized and proportioned hands, so many ways in which people are comfortable manipulating their wrists and thumbs and fingers together or separately, how to account for those with limited range of motion or perhaps even exceptionally large range of motion which they'd like to gain from? And then you get into tactile feedback like textures of the various surfaces, does it click or does it squish, what kind of noise does it make while clicking or squishing, how much resistance is enough, how much weight is enough?
Imagine a not so distant future where a good cell phone camera and an app can get a pretty solid 3D picture of your hand(s), can output the necessary STL or 3DF or whatever to have a bespoke controller printed for your hand. Then there's some sort of snappable buttons (like the customizable switches on high end gamer keyboards) and a central PCB which can be installed, along with pockets for weights and tada you now have a controller specifically for you. I see these being most useful for VR headsets or maybe even mice, not so much for things like flight or driving controls.
Edit: man, typing on mobile was a terrible idea. So many typos!
Imagine a not so distant future where a good cell phone camera and an app can get a pretty solid 3D picture of your hand(s), can output the necessary STL or 3DF or whatever to have a bespoke controller printed for your hand. Then there's some sort of snappable buttons (like the customizable switches on high end gamer keyboards) and a central PCB which can be installed, along with pockets for weights and tada you now have a controller specifically for you. I see these being most useful for VR headsets or maybe even mice, not so much for things like flight or driving controls.
Edit: man, typing on mobile was a terrible idea. So many typos!
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For sure!
Obviously every game has a different style and feel that they are going for, but I think some shooters would do well to try to differentiate between the player view and aiming with gun model and how they track and animate along with player movement. It can really improve the visceral feeling of shooting when the hand/gun feels more 1:1 with the movement of the mouse or analog stick instead of just controlling where they are looking 1:1.
I hope that makes sense to anyone else lol.
arandomguy
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From pure hardware setup standpoint Razer had the Orbweaver/Tartarus. If there was software support for such layout you could basically have WASD and thumb analog control with your left hand, and your mouse on the right hand.
There's analog keyboards which allow analog WASD movement.
To my understanding those "key/gamepads" shouldn't require any special software support, should they? They keyboard part is just standard keys, thumbstick should be mapped as xinput stick which should work universally (on Windows anyway, I'm sure Linux has some similar functionality, Mac might not, dunno)
arandomguy
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I don't mean software support specific to those hardware items but in terms of the game supporting what they were discussing.
With a hardware setup like for instance you could in theory have completely independent leg (WASD), head (thumb stick) and arm/gun (mouse) movement.
I'm not aware of a single game disabling kb/mouse when using gamepad, so it should work without issues without any special support so long as you map them right.
But what I'm more curious about is why you'd want to split head and aim from each other? I mean sure, you don't want to look at all the blood guts and brains splattering on walls you could turn your head and start shooting blind but.... (VR aside ofc)
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arandomguy
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I wasn't the one who originally brought it up so you'd need to ask them.
For me personally I could see it maybe be interesting if you're looking for an immersion/simulation factor. But it would definitely less gamey for better or worse.
Lots of games automatically switch the hints as to which buttons to press based on the last active controller input (keyboard vs gamepad) and having those switch rapid fire during gameplay would likely be pretty irritating, though.
The black and white crash is extreme
The contrasts are heightened but the GI of Crysis was not the best too.
Pretty sure the original didn't have GI.
Just some ambient term and horrible SSAO.
Looks great. I imagine we will get something comparable to this on the next wave of consoles
@Andrew Lauritzen I have an *optimization* idea for virtual shadow maps & texturing using the tiled resources API on modern Intel graphics hardware. They have a hardware feature called Tiled Resources Translation Tables (TR-TT) where you can bypass the overhead of updating the page table mappings which makes the UpdateTileMappings API run fast ...
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