Suggesting to devs

[kozzm0]

what is the headtracking tech? LIke in Gran turismo where if you move your head, the driver's head moves?

If it's about changing the view, it would never work. You wouldn't be looking at the screen anymore.

How come your avatar is Победная Звезда but you haven't joined the battle for Europe for USSR? Битва ещё продолжается!

The draft is today, so if you haven't joined, it's probably too late, depending on the rules

[MACADEMIC]

Originally Posted by kozzm0

what is the headtracking tech? LIke in Gran turismo where if you move your head, the driver's head moves?

If it's about changing the view, it would never work. You wouldn't be looking at the screen anymore.

Hi,

Have a look here, this video shows how headtracking works. You only move your head slightly so your eyes can stay on the screen. It looks very intuitive and natural:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zU8Zn...layer_embedded

Video from a thread by Houndstone Hawk: http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/showthread.php?t=11935

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[PaulDPearl]

There are a few bugs with the game...

When viewing from 3rd person, the X and Y axis of the camera are oppisite that from the HUD only and Cockpit view... this has got to be a bug...

If you have a custom control setup you can no longer "press select to Continue" when on missions... even if you haven't changed the "select" button's features... ((you have to change the layout to "wirless controller" and then press "select" - then you have to change the layout back to "custom" to continue to use your workable controls...))

If you can make the game compatable with the Track IR, you would have the greatest combat simulator ever. ((Though I haven't tried it with a joystick yet...))

[kozzm0]

Originally Posted by MACADEMIC

Hi,

Have a look here, this video shows how headtracking works. You only move your head slightly so your eyes can stay on the screen. It looks very intuitive and natural:

(a video)

Video from a thread by Houndstone Hawk: http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/showthread.php?t=11935

MACADEMIC

doesn't look like the dude was able to check 6 though.

Would the ps eye be capable of this?

[MACADEMIC]

Originally Posted by kozzm0

doesn't look like the dude was able to check 6 though.

Would the ps eye be capable of this?

Have a look further down this thread: http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/showthread.php?t=12014

It seems like the Eye Toy can pretty precisely monitor headmovements, angles etc. Regarding checking his six, I'm not sure but that would depend on how much headmovement translates into change of viewing angle. It should be possible to finetune it that way.

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[kozzm0]

It's the PS Eye, the Eye Toy was for ps2 and it's much weaker

I just bought one used for a good price, and have spent about 30 hours trying to get it to work in linux. The driver is still partly in development and works for a lot of people but not for me, I am probably going to have to compile it into the kernel which I'm not looking forward to, but compiling it as a 3rd-party module won't seem to work

But once I get the Eye working, I'll be able to capture decent video of BOP on my pc. I've made test recordings on the ps3 of pc and ps2 stuff, and it's better than I expected. The Eye is a very good webcam, 480p at 60fps with a 4-mic array.

[MACADEMIC]

Originally Posted by kozzm0

It's the PS Eye, the Eye Toy was for ps2 and it's much weaker

Yes, you're right, and Sony seems to have a few things planned with that thing, plus some other tracking devices (see the threads).

Good luck with your programming!

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[PaulDPearl]

If you could please fix the camera controls. One of the Four mode's is reversered from the other 3... (Third Person).

Virtual Cockpit - Left goes left, right goes right.
Cockpit - Left goes left, right goes right.
Gunner - Left goes left, right goes right.
Third Person - Left goes Right, Right goes Left...

And if you use a "custom" layout - both X and Y axis are reversed from the other two... meaning you have the rest setup to push up and look down, and when you push up in 3rd person you look up.


All you need to do is make the 3rd person camera axis (both X and Y) a seperate control that can be reversed by the user in Custom Layout > Settings.. . As it takes the user customizing his settings to find this problem (or changing to wireless controller setup 3).

I beleive the settings are setup in this way because in the default controls, you push the R3 button to "look" and when in 3rd person, the "look" button causes you to look backwards first (look up), but this doesn't happen if you don't use a look button...

((interestingly enough, if you map a button to "look up" and use it in the cockpit view, you will look at your instruments.. this could be handy for those of us who know how to read the instruments...))

[hypertek]

I just bought this game, its cool, just kinda sad that it is very underrated with the general mass of people who never look at these games.. Would love to see populated online play *i have ps3*. Like online servers instead of always joining a "host" game.

And when in 3rd person view, alot of things going on at the same time, i notice a frame rate drop can get a lil choppy, perhaps some better optimizing if its possible. Would turning music off free up a lil more power from the system? I suppose its at the limits of the console.

Otherwise cool game. I had to call around to find it and the gamestop that had it only had one copy *If anyone whos been to Gamestop knows, they will open one copy for display purposes, and sell that copy to you as new. Perhaps a more attention grabbing box art would have got more people interested in it. I know alot of people talk about those "other" console flight games cuz they got prettier boxart.

[hypertek]

what would be nice is be able to turn down teh transparancy of the on-screen indicators, sometimes its hard to make out the direction of the plan because the target indicator around it is soo bright.