Does anybody know how many DoF A3 will have?

[dmarkwick 261]

I only brought this up because I read that Rfactor has 15 degrees of freedom for cars.

I know its apples and oranges but I was just wondering in terms of land vehicles will there be a difference in dof from arma2 to 3.

What you most likely read was that RFactor has 15 axes of control, allowing analogue control of accelerator, brake, steering etc. Including 6 for head orientation & movement.

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When you sticked your head closer to the screen it zoomed in, right? That's what I remember when I used the TIR5 that I sold after some weeks...

Yes, so it could be said that ArmA uses 5DoF, although the zoom was not a translation or a rotation, it is a control :)

[EDcase 87]

Zoom (Translating head forward & back) is one of the axes that can be controlled with TrackIR.

Personally I don't use all available axes inTrackIR:

-I don't use "Roll" (head lean side to side) This will be used in ARMA3 for helicopters.

-I don't use "Y" axis (head move Up/Down) Very hard to move head up and down when sitting on a chair. Although it will probably be available, I don't think this will be used much in ARMA3.

So 4 axes used at the moment:

YAW: Look left/right

PITCH: Look up/down

"X": Translate side to side for leaning.

"Z": Translate forward/back for zoom. (not used much but handy sometimes)

Edited February 17, 2012 by EDcase

[MulleDK19 21]

But you cannot lean forward, or stretch up & down (crouching notwithstanding).

Sure you can. You just look down.

[Flash Thunder 10]

six depths of field? What the hell does that mean

/jk

More wishlist features are confirmed good job BIS now don't forget all the other things!

UPDATED ARMA 3 WIKI

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARMA_3

Edited February 18, 2012 by Flash Thunder

[Undeceived 392]

Cool stuff! :)

I love to read that list again and again.

[dmarkwick 261]

Sure you can. You just look down.

Yeah, I know you can "cheat" an incremental crouch by leaning your figure forward & simultaneously looking up, but that's not exactly what I'm talking about :) I'm talking about the unused Y axis translation of TrackIR as a control.

[liquidpinky 11]

Just a side note to this, having ported A2 and OA into Take On, all the old helis now have 6Dof with TrackIR.

If a heli deosn't have a head movement set-up in the cfg it just uses what seems to be a default one.

So fingers crossed they keep this up with A3 and add it to all the other vehicles as well.

[spec_ops_sniper 0]

Just a side note to this, having ported A2 and OA into Take On, all the old helis now have 6Dof with TrackIR.

If a heli deosn't have a head movement set-up in the cfg it just uses what seems to be a default one.

So fingers crossed they keep this up with A3 and add it to all the other vehicles as well.

6DOF in an aircraft is one thing but in a vehicle? Being able to lean over and look out the view port of an APC would be awesome!!!

[CameronMcDonald 146]

It's something I've always wanted to do in the back of a BMP... using the firing ports too.

A man can dream!

[liquidpinky 11]

6DOF in an aircraft is one thing but in a vehicle? Being able to lean over and look out the view port of an APC would be awesome!!!

Imagine the possibilities with motorcycles, actually leaning properly to corner.

TrackIR needs to make some sort of knee tracker now, so we can get some proper leaning in there.

[HNM1 1]

will be a badAZZ GAME

[spec_ops_sniper 0]

Imagine the possibilities with motorcycles, actually leaning properly to corner.

TrackIR needs to make some sort of knee tracker now, so we can get some proper leaning in there.

And the ability to detect arrows impacting said knees.

(lol i couldn't resist)

[onlyrazor 11]

And the ability to detect arrows impacting said knees.

(lol i couldn't resist)

I have a couple of such images in my bookmarks for emergencies

[rye1 21]

I have a couple of such images in my bookmarks for emergencies

One relevant GIF and follow-on comment STAT!

[onlyrazor 11]

One relevant GIF and follow-on comment STAT!

I could but then the moderators will get angry and be all like:

ONTOPIC: Since I don't use TrackIR it won't affect me in the slightest, but as far as I'm concerned, the more features the better.

[Meek 10]

Somehow I don't think there will be any change to the infantry, but I wouldn't be surprised if the vehicles (aircraft in particular) got full 6DoF.