TWRoO on 27 November 2007
| Cryoakira said: Well, good for the pointing, but Light Saber would be about motion sensor, and as it turns out, the Wiimote do not work as you might expect. In fact, there is not "motion sensor" in the Wiimote, so to speak. I'm not sure I can be clear in english, but the datas coming out of the wiimote are the forces apply by gravity. Visually, the datas are 3 lines (X, Y, Z) and if you just put the Wimote on the table, not touching it, one of the axis will "respond" continually. And with the same intensity that if you were moving the Wiimote downward. More simply : it means that the Wiimote, for the same move, can not really make the difference between a slow one and a fast one. It also means we're king of screwed for the lightsaber :( |
That gravity thing made no sense, the Wii remote cannot detect gravity? gravity isn't a force you can detect like that.
The remote has accelerometers in it, it is not just a gyroscope (electronic equivalent of) so it can detect changes in speed because otherwise it wouldn't know if you were drawing a circle or just moving it in general.
The reason lightsaber action hasn't been worked in yet is because it will be ery difficult to get it to feel right, and star wars fans are whiny perfectionists.
