D=Accelerate and A=Deaccelerate Why?
#1
Posted 07 January 2014 - 11:14 AM
In both Open Rails and MSTS the Throttle Increase (Accelerate) > D and the Throttle Decrease (Deaccelerate) > A ! Is this some keyboard arcana, railroad tradition or mere human obfustication at work.:pardon:
#2
Posted 07 January 2014 - 12:16 PM
I suppose, this is just something MS invented - you couldn´t even say, D is the left arrow key and a the right one, which then would translate to throttle to the left / right in a standard cab. Obviously, someone was really confused with that :fool:
Cheers, Markus
Cheers, Markus
#3
Posted 07 January 2014 - 12:30 PM
#4
Posted 07 January 2014 - 12:30 PM
R H Steele, on 07 January 2014 - 11:14 AM, said:
In both Open Rails and MSTS the Throttle Increase (Accelerate) > D and the Throttle Decrease (Deaccelerate) > A ! Is this some keyboard arcana, railroad tradition or mere human obfustication at work.:fool:
It's possible MSTS copied it from some earlier game, but I expect it was just picked fairly arbitrarily. Using WASD is obviously nice, W/S make sense for F/N/R, so you're left with which way around A/D are. IIRC, RailWorks/Rail Simulator/Train Simulator 2014 uses A/D the opposite way around (so A is accelerate). I'm not at all sure what Trainz uses. Open Rails is definitely copying MSTS, though.
#5
Posted 07 January 2014 - 12:40 PM
Not a suggestion - just asking -- at this stage in development would it make sense to use A for increase and D for decrease or would that cause confusion? A can of worms?
#6
Posted 07 January 2014 - 12:49 PM
YOu can at anyone time change it under options -> keaboard, if you wish. E.g., the keyboard mapping I use is only coherent to the defaults on WASD - nothing more :fool:
Cheers, Markus
Cheers, Markus
#7
Posted 07 January 2014 - 11:15 PM
markus_GE, on 07 January 2014 - 12:49 PM, said:
YOu can at anyone time change it under options -> keaboard, if you wish. E.g., the keyboard mapping I use is only coherent to the defaults on WASD - nothing more ;)
Cheers, Markus
Cheers, Markus
:fool: DUH ---- has anyone seen my brain? O yea, I put it on the fast freight outta my head.
Edit - after Marcus found my brain I remapped the keyboard --- now if I can find where I put the keyboard????:)
#9
Posted 09 January 2014 - 08:41 AM
I guess D is increase because normally a right pointing key/arrow would mean increase/high.
Same with sliders and loding bars, Left is low, Right is high. I guess it originates in the way we write from lef to right.
Even for old analog appliences this ruel is there, A runing knob or slider on for example a radia is slided/turned right or increase of volume or frequency.
Same with sliders and loding bars, Left is low, Right is high. I guess it originates in the way we write from lef to right.
Even for old analog appliences this ruel is there, A runing knob or slider on for example a radia is slided/turned right or increase of volume or frequency.
#10
Posted 09 January 2014 - 10:49 AM