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Question regarding control of land vehicles

Bishop Atlas
Registered User
Join date: 1 Apr 2008
Posts: 7
04-06-2008 15:13
So, I'm a newbie at SL, and I have a question.

I've been toying around with some of the vehicles available in SL, and I have to say it's been quite the learning curve. I've been searching the forums here for alternate methods of controlling vehicles, and I've come across some fragmented references to mouse/mouselook steering, but I haven't been able to track down a thread that actually says "here's a car that steers using the mouse and works 100% perfectly".

So far I've been driving vehicles around with my old MS Sidewinder gamepad, using Joy2Key to map the D-pad and buttons to keyboard controls. It's worked OK, better than using the keys themselves, but it's still not that accurate.

So, are there alternatives to the normal arrow key/WASD steering method for ground-based vehicles?

Thanks!
Winter Ventura
Eclectic Randomness
Join date: 18 Jul 2006
Posts: 2,579
04-06-2008 16:10
Unfortunately, I don't have an answer for you. Physics and I aren't close friends.

However, this thread would probably find better answers in the "Scripting Tips" forum, several levels down.
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Bishop Atlas
Registered User
Join date: 1 Apr 2008
Posts: 7
04-06-2008 16:19
Thanks, I'll try that. :)