#Using the ir and wiimote osculator software#
#Using the ir and wiimote osculator code#

#Using the ir and wiimote osculator software#

The second is a nifty piece of software called LM Remote Keymap. however, when testing it earlier today, i covered the wiimote's IR, unplugged the sensor bar, and wiggled the wiimote around for a good five minutes (mostly left and right ), after which, the sword was still right where it was supposed to be, and it appeared the motionplus knew exactly where it was with respects to all three axes.Microsoft Media Center IR Remote (A9O-00007) i also know that the game can use the wiimote's IR to 'recalibrate' the motionplus. i realize that there are times when the device DOES get thrown off and the player has to hit 'A' to recalibrate, but that happens relatively rarely. so how is it that games that use it dont need constant recalibration (such as wii sports resort)? for example, the sword showdown game can go on for up to 10 minutes (or more). You mentioned that the motionplus is meant to be used in short intervals. the problem with this is that, for example, the user is holding the controller sideways at the time of recalibration, then the motionplus gets calibrated incorrectly :-/

#Using the ir and wiimote osculator code#

So if i HAVE to reset, i'd think i'd code it to happen periodically automatically. if the user had to take extra time to hold the controller straight and press a button to recalibrate, that would take too much time to do (during this time, the character is still moving and could get hit by an enemy for example) and two, it takes away a button on the controller. the game is constantly tracking the motionplus' angles and rotating a moving object (the character) to those rotations. one, i dont want the user to have to press a button to recalibrate. im hesitant to use the reset command though for a few reasons. So roll and pitch are automatically recalibrated periodically? by what? the device itself, or is that something that's happening within osculator? and is yaw different from the other two in that it's not recalibrated?Īlso, for the game im making, i am using all three axes, so i do want to find a way to get around the drifting. so any advice on how i can resolve this would be greatly appreciated!

Ive read some of the other topics regarding the motionplus, but i havent seen any with this sort of problem. even covering the wiimotes IR (since wii sports resort sometimes uses the IR to 'recalibrate' itself), the axes of rotation were not thrown off at all. I tested the motionplus today with wii sports resort to see if this was a problem with the device itself of something else. Now im aware of the ability to reset the calibration, but due to how quickly the yaw is thrown off, id have to be doing this every few seconds, which itself, could easily throw off the calibration (for example, it'd recalibrate while the user is holding the wiimote sideways). this happens very quickly after only a few seconds, holding the wiimote straight ahead (where the initial values were all ~.5), the yaw will be way off (for example. after i move the wiimote around a little bit though, the yaw values tend to get thrown off (they get gradually higher the more i move the wiimote, regardless of how im moving it simply moving the wiimote at all raises the yaw value). So basically whats happening is that i start up osculator, connect the wiimote (with motionplus attached), and it starts out fine. usually what happens is that i move the wiimote with regards to yaw (left or right rotation) and the value starts creeping higher even if im just moving the wiimote slightly there have been times when the value rises without me even touching the wiimote. mainly, i've seen that it tends to drift upward (the value) when moving the wiimote around. so i've noticed that a few different things seem to happen with the yaw over time. i've got a question/problem with the motionplus' yaw values.