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Hosted Projects - Standalone => Diaspora => Diaspora Tech Help => Topic started by: Rakebuzz on January 01, 2014, 01:17:09 pm
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Hello,
I am in dire need of some manual.
I am in the middle of programming my two joysticks with T.A.R.G.E.T. and I need to know ingame functions.
So for the following stuff, I need to know what the game/ship does exactly. :)
It may seem lazy, but I cannot go button for button and keep rerunning the game 500 times to see what it is expected to do.
Better do it right in one to 5 trials and errors instead of 500 ones.
Targeting:
toggle auto targeting:
target subsystem: (what's subsystem?)
target next uninspected cargo: (cargo?? what have I got to do with cargo? a cargoship?)
Ship:
the difference between throttle, thrust, and afterburner please
the difference between turning and banking
right thrust:
down thrust:
Gliding:
Misc:
Attack my target: (is this a chat message only? feels that way)
Same for Disable, Disarm, Capture
Engage Enemy:
Attack my subsystem:
Form on my wing:
Ignore my Target:
Cover me:
Return to base:
Rearm me:
(All seem like chat-only things)
Chase view:
Free look view:
Current Target View:
Communication Menu:
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Targeting:
toggle auto targeting:
When auto targeting is on, your ship will automatically target the next nearby hostile when you destroy your current target.
target subsystem: (what's subsystem?)
Subsystems are the weapons, sensors, comm, FTL, and engines on large ships - battlestars, base stars, transports, so on.
target next uninspected cargo: (cargo?? what have I got to do with cargo? a cargoship?)
Not important in either FreeSpace or Diaspora, really.
the difference between throttle, thrust, and afterburner please
Your throttle is your ship's gas pedal - how fast are you telling the ship to go? Full throttle puts you at maximum forward thrust. Zero throttle puts you at a stop. Afterburner is a really important button that gives you a momentary huge speed boost.
the difference between turning and banking
Turning moves your ship's nose left to right, like turning a car on the street. Banking rolls your ship around its long axis.
right thrust:
down thrust:
These thrust commands fire thrusters on the sides of your ship to kick your ship in those directions without having to move the nose.
Gliding:
When in glide mode, you can move your ship's nose without altering your flight vector. Without glide mode, you fly normally, like an airplane - moving the nose alters your ship's flight vector.
Attack my target: (is this a chat message only? feels that way)
Same for Disable, Disarm, Capture
Engage Enemy:
Attack my subsystem:
Form on my wing:
Ignore my Target:
Cover me:
Return to base:
Rearm me:
(All seem like chat-only things)
These are not chat messages. These are commands given to your AI wingmen. They can be pretty vital in FreeSpace; some of them are also important in Diaspora.
Chase view:
Free look view:
Current Target View:
These are camera commands. Chase view toggles your camera between your cockpit and the outside of your ship.
Communication Menu:
This opens the menu you use to give commands to your AI wingmen.
You would probably pick all this stuff up by playing the tutorial with keyboard/mouse.
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Cool! Thanks for the intell :)
Lots of buttons to assign I see... more then I thought..
Gonna need assigning the entire keybord to my two T16kM youstick buttons.
And alt and shift too on top for tripling the base buttons...
Should do the trick...