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bkenobi:

You could make nudge work similar to the tilt detector.  In it's simplest form, you would have the controller hung upside down with a pendulum of sorts hung from the analog stick.  When you bump the box, the pendulum swings a bit and nudges the game.  There are certainly more elegant ways, but this would be possible without any major work IMO.

HaRuMaN:


--- Quote from: bkenobi on December 21, 2009, 02:36:01 pm ---You could make nudge work similar to the tilt detector.  In it's simplest form, you would have the controller hung upside down with a pendulum of sorts hung from the analog stick.  When you bump the box, the pendulum swings a bit and nudges the game.  There are certainly more elegant ways, but this would be possible without any major work IMO.

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:cheers:

That would work, given a pendulum with enough mass.

A mechanical solution could be done for the plunger, too, come to think of it.  You could simply attach a string to the end of the plunger and tie it to the other analog stick.

bkenobi:

Yup!  The weight and length of the pendulum would be the adjustments for sensitivity.  I would think a solid bar would work better than a string/wire for this.  I'd have to tinker to make it work, but I think the concept is feasible.

Ginsu Victim:

With a string/wire, you would want the plunger to only pull the analog stick once the plunger is pulled all the way out. That way you couldn't put too much pull on the stick. A solid bar sounds like a bad idea because you would put too much stress on the analog stick and you would lose the proper range of motion that the plunger needs to feel like a real pinball machine.

Edit: Did I just confuse two different things? Maybe you were talking about the pendulum setup...

HaRuMaN:

He was talking about the pendulum (and I agree, a solid bar would work better).

With the plunger, you could just add enough slack to the string so it wouldn't pull the analog stick until fully pulled.



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