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General FreeSpace => FreeSpace & FreeSpace Open Support => Topic started by: Lorric on December 14, 2013, 12:54:23 am

Title: What Does Hat Mean?
Post by: Lorric on December 14, 2013, 12:54:23 am

For the view controls. "Hat Forward", etc. Please could someone tell me what it means? I've been watching Youtube videos and seen a couple of people looking around their ship and I want to do it too. Particularly looking behind me to see capital ships explode and perhaps incoming missiles. :)

Title: Re: What Does Hat Mean?
Post by: NGTM-1R on December 14, 2013, 12:56:26 am

Joystick hat switch.

Title: Re: What Does Hat Mean?
Post by: Lorric on December 14, 2013, 01:04:37 am

Ah, that explains why I couldn't figure it out, and why keyboard related google searches came up empty. I guess I'm going to need to assign some custom keys if I want to do that. Thanks.

Title: Re: What Does Hat Mean?
Post by: headdie on December 14, 2013, 06:04:36 am

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joystick#Hat_switch

a little random information

Title: Re: What Does Hat Mean?
Post by: yuezhi on December 14, 2013, 06:31:31 am

Quote from: Lorric on December 14, 2013, 01:04:37 am

Ah, that explains why I couldn't figure it out, and why keyboard related google searches came up empty. I guess I'm going to need to assign some custom keys if I want to do that. Thanks.

Or you can get a joystick from somewhere, maybe ebay. And no you don't already have one, SIR.