[quake3] Re: r160 - in trunk/code: client unix

Scott Brooks scott at scottbrooks.ca
Sun Oct 23 23:20:47 EDT 2005


On 23-Oct-05, at 10:14 AM, Tim Angus wrote:

> On Sun, 23 Oct 2005 17:59:14 +0200 Ludwig wrote:
>
>> Unfortunately with this change one cannot simply switch between
>> 1.32b and ioQ3 anymore because sensitivity is always wrong in one of
>> them.
>>
>
> They will be approximately similar, I think you are rather  
> exaggerating
> the issue.
>
>
>> Does the hard coded accel actually matter?
>>
>
> Yes. With it in place it is impossible to have relative mouse  
> movements
> of 2 or 3 pixels -- this is clearly wrong. My theory is that the hard
> coded acceleration was never intended as acceleration but as a  
> means to
> normalise the sensitivity on the *nix build without disturbing any
> common code.
>

Would a simple solution be to add another config that io-q3 execs on  
startup similar to autoexec.cfg.

That way when i.o-q3 starts it will run the autoexec.cfg, and then  
run io-q3.cfg.  Regular q3 will ignore io-q3.cfg.




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