Hi Che, I think you are right a practice track is advisable. Perhaps I should experiment to find out what controller is right for me. As i pointed out to Mark earlier my hands/wrists do shake some when using the mouse and part of my lack of control could be just do to my nerve damage. How well do joysticks and game pads work with RR? I usually don't have as much an issue controlling them. I will locate my game pad and try it out. See if it helps.
Che wrote: > I think the best thing to do is to make a simple track with just a couple > curves in it so you can practice taking curves, and pressing the D key in > the middle to see how close you are to the perfect lean. > It is also very important to move smoothly with your hand from 0 degrees > to max lean and back again, as the curve itself is a linear progression from > zero to max and back to zero. In fact, it helps to start moving a bit > before the curve, so you are already leaning when the curve starts, and you > won't have to accelerate your hand. One mistake some people make is to over > compensate when they scratch by leaning to far back, remember that wall you > just hit leans with the curve, so if you scrape in the first half of the > curve, it only takes a very slight adjustment to correct yourself. > Finally, it is very important to have a light touch with the mouse, you > should not be moving your arm much if at all, it is all in the wrist and > fingers, and get used to resetting your mouse position by picking it up with > your fingers and placing it back in the center position. > Keep practicing, I promise the mouse is not only a better control device , > it is in my opinion more fun once you get used to it. > Regarding the accidental slow downs, this is easy to do in a curve, > because it is easy to pull the mouse back as you move it left or right, I > tend to push it forward a bit in the curves, so I don't accidentally slow > down. > HTH. > Che > Mime-Version: 1.0 > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Thomas Ward" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2007 9:58 AM > Subject: [Audyssey] Some Rail Racer tips please. > > > >> Hi everyone, >> Recently I have switched over to using the mouse with Rail Racer. >> However, despite being told over and over again the mouse control is the >> best way to drive the racer I feel like I can't maintain control of the >> racer very well. I either lean to far to the left or right, sometimes >> when using the mouse I'll bump the mouse the wrong way and I will go >> from 200 MPH to 50 MPH in a second which drives me insane, and I will >> get frustrated and press the left mous button instead of the middle one >> resulting in a head on crash into the jump. >> I have read and listened to Che's tips on using the mouse and try to >> follow them but I am clumsy and out of control with it. I can't seam to >> make the mouse do what I want, and my performence is terrible to what I >> can do with the keyboard. Last night I got so frustrated I nearly >> destroyed my mouse by driving it into my mouse pad like a missile. Any >> help please. >> >> Sincerely, >> Frustrated Racer >> >> >> >> --- >> Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] >> If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at >> http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. >> All messages are archived and can be searched and read at >> http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the >> list, >> please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> >> > > > --- > Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] > If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at > http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. > All messages are archived and can be searched and read at > http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, > please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > --- Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
