Driving: Tank, Arcade or FPS?

[JamesCH95]

Ken,


This is the first, and so far only, substantive argument I've heard in favor of two-stick tank drive. Congratulations!

For that maneuver, the one-side pivot, I would suggest setting the right and left bumper buttons on a controller to disable all output to one drive-train side, or prevent any reverse movement on one drive-train side (obviously correlated to the button's side). This should be trivially easy to implement in code and result in the control scheme that you desire.

In 2012 we used a similar type of control to align to the bridge, except instead of controller buttons we used two limit switches on our bridge-lowering mechanism to turn off one, or the other, drives.

[Joe Ross]

Originally Posted by JamesCH95

Have you found a story of any team that switched to two-stick tank from any other method of control? I can only find threads like this, where teams ditched two-stick tank for another method they found to be superior.

330 used single stick arcade from 1998-2004 and tank from 2005-2014. Regional winning percentage with arcade was 27%, and with tank it is 42%.

[Zebra_Fact_Man]

Originally Posted by Ether

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?

I come from the old-school School of Tank Drive: Left Joystick is left, Right Joystick is right, but I just recently switched teams, and my new team is trying out the FPS style controls for the first time.

We are going with H-Drive this year, so our controls are as follows:
Left Thumbstick = forward, back, strafe L/R
Right Thumbstick: Left = turn left, Right = turn right
Directional buttons = precise directional movements (50% speed of Left Thumbstick)

This is an entirely different world than what I'm accustomed to (back when I drove a long time ago, using joysticks instead of videogame controllers), but the kids seem to work well with it, so that's all that matters to me.

[JamesCH95]

Originally Posted by Joe Ross

330 used single stick arcade from 1998-2004 and tank from 2005-2014. Regional winning percentage with arcade was 27%, and with tank it is 42%.

Why was this switch made?

Why do you (apparently) think that the change in control scheme resulted in more wins?