Looking for an English word

[Humus]

Pitch and Roll and Yaw?

That's referring to rotation though. I was mostly interested in alternatives to describe translation.

It really depends on who you are targeting with your description. This is what Wiki does: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_degrees_of_freedom

Yeah, that's what I ended up using. It's probably the best choice. Somewhat odd though that we have good words for rotations in all dimensions, but not for translation.

altitude and elevation are the same thing really.

Not according to wikipedia:

The elevation of a geographic location is its height above a fixed reference point, often the mean sea level. Elevation, or geometric height, is mainly used when referring to points on the Earth's surface, while altitude or geopotential height is used for points above the surface, such as an aircraft in flight or a spacecraft in orbit.

 

[Jawed]

Forward/backward, perhaps something along the lines of: motivation, motor, drive.

Jawed

 

[Davros]

woot humus is making a flight sim

 

[AlphaWolf]

some other ideas

momentum
impetus

 

[Humus]

woot humus is making a flight sim

Not quite. Just adding gamepad/joystick support to my framework, that's all. It may make some demos feel a bit more flight-sim-ish I suppose.

 

[Davros]

No No Humus my friend you mis-understand my post
it was not a statement it was an order
ps: if not a space sim will do

 

[mito]

a flight sim?!?!

when will it be released?

 

[AlNom]

Not quite. Just adding gamepad/joystick support to my framework, that's all. It may make some demos feel a bit more flight-sim-ish I suppose.

Will it work with the 360 controller?

 

[Davros]

you dont play flight sims with a 360 controller

 

[pocketmoon66]

vertical, lateral and longitudinal ?

I believe I'm spot on

 

[Sxotty]

That's referring to rotation though. I was mostly interested in alternatives to describe translation.



Yeah, that's what I ended up using. It's probably the best choice. Somewhat odd though that we have good words for rotations in all dimensions, but not for translation.



Not according to wikipedia:

Well wikipedia can be wrong and often is.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&sa=X&oi=spell&resnum=0&ct=result&cd=1&q=high+altitude+climbing

I am sure they are correct in regards to flight, but in regards to the language they are not.

http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/altitude

 

[Humus]

Will it work with the 360 controller?

Yup. That's the gamepad I have.