Re: steering sensitivity and deadzone

wino <at> piments.com wrote:
> 
>> Do you have the same problem when playing with the mouse?
>>
>> If you don't have the same problem then perhaps you should take a look
>> at the calibration again.  I ran an experiment with 'jscal' and found
>> that it was possible to calibrate the joystick in such a way that it
>> exhibited an on-off response, which of course made it impossible to
>> drive.
>>
> 
> Thanks for explaining a little of the how the calibration is coded. I
> think I can see how that ties into what I am seeing. Responce like a
> chopped off parabola. With the values I gave it, a broad dead zone then
> very steep rise.
> 

Strictly speaking, there dead zone is not 0 anywhere (at least on the
side of TORCS) - changing the 'dead zone' value should make no
difference with the wheel.  If you set the sensitivity to 1 you should
see a linear response.  I usually set it between 0.5 and 0.8.

Note also that some joysticks have a 'hardware' dead zone which you can
change with joystick utilities such as jscalibrator.

Note also that the speed at which you can change the steering angle is
bounded.

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