lightgun for star wars?

[Bartzenegger]

hi , could you use a lightgun for star wars tri ? if so would it be a good method of controls?
thanks again

[nikdd]

hi , could you use a lightgun for star wars tri ? if so would it be a good method of controls?
thanks again

Hi Bartzenegger,

Yes, technically it's certainly possible to use a lightgun for Star Wars Trilogy, or indeed any game for that matter.

Lightguns normally present themselves as a mouse to the system, so all you would need to do is map the mouse's x- and y-axes to the InputAnalogJoyX and InputAnalogJoyY inputs in Supermodel.ini. In fact, I think the default Supermodel.ini is already setup this way.

Whether or not it would be suitable to play the game with though, I have no idea !

Cheers, Nik.

[Arbee]

The problem with light guns is they normally only update position when you pull the trigger. (Arcade games like Operation Thunderbolt actually used a fake gun mounted on an analog joystick instead of a light gun to get around that problem, so we get a steady stream of people disappointed that it plays like crap in MAME with an actual light gun). So my guess is it wouldn't play well for SWT at all

Of course, the newer LCD-compatible guns (which aren't guns at all but work more like the Wiimote) largely don't have that problem.

[Bartzenegger]

Thx again for the replies!!
I have the aimtrac system from ultimarc

Any ideas on the star wArs tri play with the ultimarc?

[nikdd]

I have the aimtrac system from ultimarc

Any ideas on the star wArs tri play with the ultimarc?

Yes, they will - I also have the AimTrak's (and love them!) and they work very well with Supermodel Having said that I've not played Star Wars Trilogy with one, just Lost World, but it should function fine. These guns are the LCD-compatible type, so, as Arbee says in his previous post, you won't lose control of the cursor when not pressing the trigger, which is handy

If you have two of these puppies, you can also get dual lightguns working in Lost World which is awesome - you just need to configure Supermodel to use the RawInput input system for dual gun support (see the README.txt for more details).

Cheers, Nik.

[Bartzenegger]

Oh my gosh nik thanks!
I had no idea both could work! I gotta get it to run
With my acadevga. I have three arcade cabinets
My gun cab is still not running model
3. Hopefully soon.
I m thinking of taking down my on gun cab and trying it
On my system thats running swt!
Thx

[BuriedEgg]

I have Star Wars Trilogy running with my Aimtrak lightgun. It is awesome and highly accurate. In fact, I cannot score as high with my analog joystick as I can with the Aimtrak in SWTrilogy. The only catch is that the lightsaber battles are near impossible with a lightgun.

I thought I could just switch to my joystick when the lightsaber duels come up. Unfortunately, when I have it configed for both lightgun and joystick on the same game, the joystick control acts all wonky. The cursor gets jumpy when using the joystick. I even tried with rawinput.

So, dual lightguns config'd for the same game work but not lightgun+joystick on the same game.