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Unread 28-01-2015, 13:23
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Re: Driving: Tank, Arcade or FPS?

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Originally Posted by Ether View Post

Question for those teams using XY on one Joystick and rotation on the other: do you use the left or the right joystick for XY?
XY on the left joystick, turning Z on the right joystick.

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Originally Posted by JamesCH95 View Post
I think that 33's experience (documented in a thread I linked earlier) is basically a microcosm of all of FRC's experience with two-stick drive. A lot of drivers think that it's intuitive at first, so they ask for it without knowing any better. However, once they get used to 'split arcade' or 'fps' or some other more sophisticated control scheme (where the computer is doing the drive control math instead of the driver, where drive transforms can be used) they wind up preferring it to two-stick. I believe this is why teams rarely, if ever, change back.
This is my personal experience, but after switching to arcade and split arcade, I was really unsatisfied since it seemed at least to me to be more work and math (though it probably isn't), whereas tank (for me) seemed to be completely intuitive and required no mental math. The problem I had with split arcade was how turning was completely independent of of the other drive joystick. So I tried out arcade and I liked it a little, but there was more of a thought process for what angle to press the joystick at, how much to turn, etc. With tank this doesn't require any thinking.
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