Hi,
Yeah, I saw this when I was looking at information related to programming a
PC controller. The site I was reading mentioned using a DirectX library for
force feedback. Since Quake is such an old title, I wasn't sure if all the
facets of DirectX could even be utilized.
Michael
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From: "Sabahattin Gucukoglu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, May 20, 2006 9:36 PM
Subject: Re: [AGRIP-discuss] Something I've been thinking about...
Hi Michael,
On 14 May 2006 at 20:35, Michael G. spoke, thus:
I've been thinking about something lately. I've been reading articles
pertaining to the new consoles that are coming out by Sony and Nintendo
and there's been a lot of talk about their new controllers that utilize
force feedback, rumble, and that sort of thing. The Nintendo controller
even features built-in sound. I thought that was pretty cool. The
controller actually has it's own built-in speaker. Reading this got me
to thinking if it'd be possible to take advantage of a PC force
feedback controller for Quake? I think this would be ideal for helping
to more readily identify objects such as doors, weapons, and other
things. The combination of sound and touch would greatly enhance a
blind person's ability to navigate through a 3d environment and get a
better mental picture as well. Do you think it would be possible to get
such a controller to work with this version of Quake?
There's nothing theoretically making it impossible, it's just a question
of implementation. IMHO, the only way to get the code that does the
interface management in ZQuake to be general enough to be adaptable to
concepts like this would probably be to modernise the code to use an
updated platform or library. SDL, for example, or later versions of
DirectX, might provide the necessary interfaces for these sort of haptic
interfaces (or other, completely unrelated ones, for that matter).
This sort of thing happens to tie in nicely with the planned work on the
audio subsystem, in that right now the audio rendering code is highly
coupled with the engine and must be ripped out and replaced with a truely
modular renderer and drivers to be adaptable and extensible in future.
Cheers,
Sabahattin
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AGRIP Project
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