Y-Axis

ScouserSte · 2 Sep 2011 at 00:07

Hey all.

Y axis, what the ****?

My gaming roots are PC gaming, and they were the time of DOS, which tended not to really support a mouse. Yet I simply MUST always invert y-axis on anything not FP on PC?

Of course this varies. I don't invert y axis when playing a fps on my PC for example (but I do when third person on PC), but first person or on a console and even third person, I must invert. Apparently this is an alien concept to some. So what is the cognitive process that differs between yverts and non-yverts?

Many are quick to cite personal preference but I'll say that I am physically unable to play a third person or console fps game without y inverted because my brain crashes.

So are there any mental process discrepancy's and fundamental differences of interpretation between y inverters and non-y inverters? Why and when does up equal down?

ScouserSte · 2 Sep 2011 at 00:35

Bwaaa · 2 Sep 2011 at 00:39

Wrong forum... I think?

And i'd say it's just down to what your first games used as default.

ScouserSte · 2 Sep 2011 at 00:41

Bwaaa said:
Wrong forum... I think?

No. "Hardware" includes peripherals, and how you use them is a part of the purpose but this is a more general topic especially in this context so this thread is ideal for the forum that it's posted in.....

jak731 · 2 Sep 2011 at 00:53

You would get more replies in pc games or console games.

I think it is down to what you're used to, the brain is very good at adapting, if you gave it long enough you would be able to be a non inverter.

As an example, there was an experiment where people wore goggles to invert there vision all the time, after a couple of days they adjusted to it. After they took the goggles of it took another few days for them to adjust to the norm. (due to the way a lens works the image projected onto the retina is normally inverted)