rec.autos.simulators

According to Papy (as recently as an interview on AGN a couple months ago)
the reason that FF wasn't part of GPL was that with the state of the
technology, there was no way to do FF with a level of realism worthy of GPL.

Now that FF will be included, what has changed? Have the FF wheels available
now somehow evolved to a point where an implementation realistic enough to
be worthy of the state of the art in realism that is GPL is now feasible? Or
is this another example of Sierra's forcing Papy to compromise away their
ideals?

I sure hope its the former and that the FF implementation in GPL 1.1 will
present a true enhancement to the realism and not just an attempt to make
GPL more commercially viable.

But its the latter, perhaps as Fran?ois Mnard stated in another thread,
this marks the end of the Papy that we have known in the past. As far as I'm
concerned, the very integrity of Papyrus and their commitment to realism is
at stake.

Charitable folks, those papy boys.

Z.

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I wanted to see how good we could make it with the current technology,
so I implemented the back end, and Dave crunched the physics.  It's
better than we thought it would be, but still not what we would like to
see (er, feel).  The response we've gotten from our internal and
external testers is that our use of FF is at least as good as, and
generally appreciably better than, other FF enabled products.
Ultimately, of course, y'all will be the judge of that.

Randy

<smacks head on desk repeatedly>

WHEN, WHEN, WHEN?!

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As for the state of the technology, it does have a
long way to go.  But, some of the wheels out there
now can get the job done.  My FF wheel introduces
no noticeable lag.  I think any properly made
serial or USB device should be able to produce
latencies smaller than the human ability to perceive
them.  This wasn't true of the early FF joysticks,
and even some of the current wheels have unacceptable
lag.

The two areas that need the most improvement on FF
wheels is in 1) the total force produced, and 2) the
smoothness of the power delivery system.

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ronny

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Hey, any bit of information that helps gives a more realistic picture of
what the car is doing is always welcome. :)

Jens

On Mon, 17 May 1999 08:51:14 -0700, "Frank Koenig"

Jens

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