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CW & CCW backwards?

Oct 21, 2004 yoosty69 link
Not sure if I'm looking at this wrong, but as I understand it, when something rotates CW, it spins to the right from the top. CCW is to the left from the top ( in case that wasn't obvious ).
Oct 21, 2004 raybondo link
Yeah, it's backwards, but we're not going to change it.
Think of it as rotating the world around you. ;)
Oct 21, 2004 RelayeR link
Everything is upside down anyway....think of it as Alice In The 24 1/2 Century.
Oct 21, 2004 raybondo link
Heh, you and your upsidedown conspiracy theory. ;)
Oct 21, 2004 RelayeR link
Hey! I've got video proof...now if only Agent Dark Booty will call me back!

And...my head is NOT big!
Oct 21, 2004 Suicidal Lemming link
Your ship is moving CW/CCW, not your view outside of your ship.
Oct 21, 2004 RelayeR link
Only if you're facing it, Lem.
Oct 21, 2004 Suicidal Lemming link
Gasp! I was indeed wrong! I never checked the bindings, e is indeed CCW. How odd.
Oct 21, 2004 paedric link
This may be overly simplistic, but couldn't you just swap the bindings for cw/ccw in the wgaf.cfg?
You know... *bind "q" +RotateCW* becomes *bind "e" +RotateCW* and vice versa?
Oct 21, 2004 Darthmonkeyman link
i dont think really matters.. i mean it seems more of a syntax error in the help screen, i mean press 'w' and u roll CCW, press 'e' and you roll CW... so what if the help thing says 'w' is CW and 'e' is CCW.... acutally that would be odd if it were the way the help thing says it to be... seems like just a syntax and not that hard to figure out.. mess with the buttons and u find that w rolls the ship CCW(for you) and e rolls CW(for you)

hmmm maybe the devs wrote the help from the outsiders view. to them when you press 'w' you would roll CW(for them) and e CCW(for them) :P

wait when you press w one is suppose to roll <-(cannot draw semi circle) and e rolls -> (the ship rolling in either direction from your view[arg so many ways one can get confused if the view point is changed]) or is this just happening to me because from what ppl are saying, no only is the help saying CCW is e but when they press e they do roll CCW....

darth out
Oct 21, 2004 sarahanne link
nah, I think it is just part of the vendetta physics. like friction at top speeds.. :)
Oct 21, 2004 Eldrad link
it's always been backwards
Oct 21, 2004 RelayeR link
...and upside down.
Oct 21, 2004 sarahanne link
maybe someone will write their PhD dissertation on the physics of VO and finally address these riddles.
Oct 21, 2004 paedric link
< w > is forward by default (US kybd)
Oct 22, 2004 Darthmonkeyman link
darth smacks himself. my bad i mean 'q', please input 'q' for all 'w' in my last post... -.-

darth out
Oct 22, 2004 danielky link
Vendetta messes with Quantum Mechanics I think... everything upside down (or so RelayeR thinks) and spinning the wrong way while spinning the right way (? confusing, huh).

Go devs, you're the only people who could totally rewrite the basic ways of movement about the world and get away with it.
Oct 24, 2004 a1k0n link
The Vendetta universe just has different fundamental constants for the nuclear weak force, the gravitional force, the permittivity of free space, the speed of light, etc. Also clocks were designed backwards from ours. And there are only four curled up dimensions at a quantum level instead of six.

Or something.
Oct 24, 2004 danielky link
well, you still rock Andy.