From yehster@athena.mit.edu Sat Jul 29 18:21:06 EDT 1995
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From: yehster@athena.mit.edu (Kevin H Yeh)
Newsgroups: alt.games.mechwarrior2
Subject: Custom Input Questions...Help from Activision Maybe?
Date: 27 Jul 1995 15:45:00 GMT
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Does anybody know if it's possible to setup the joystick so that
moving the stick twists the torso such that pushing it in the desired
direction moves it in that direction at a certain speed depending on
deflection... Rather than the way it's setup now where the distance
>from  center is how far the torso is twisted... It's a pain if you want
the torso at some fixed angle to hold the Joystick steady at that
angle...  I kind of want pushing left and right on the stick to be
like hitting the left and right keys on the keyboard...

A related question... Could someone from Activision post a list of
what items can be set in the .map files?  And the names for the
various keys and buttons and joystick axises.  Only managed to setup
my rudder pedals the way I wanted (to steer the mech) by editing the
input.map file... I couldn't manage to do it with the in game
config...   Man that thing's difficult to use...

Well... Other than the fact that customizing input is a PAIN.... I
love this game...  (I haven't played Descent over Kali in a while
which is loads of fun... can't wait for 8 player MW2 over the
internet...)

Kevin Yeh
yehster@mit.edu