SatyrSackMar 1

[Deck] Make it make sense

https://quokk.au/c/steamdeck/p/713512/make-it-make-sense

Show threadSneezycatMar 1

When you turn clockwise, you move down when you’re on the right side.

To scroll down, you move the slider on the right side downwards.

Idk, it’s intuitive for me, but I guess that it’s like inverted controls on videogames. What’s comfortable for you depends on how your brain works.

I think of it as a (the world’s ugliest) cogwheel.

Show threadSludgeyy

I would say scroll down the page if I wanted to see more of the information on the bottom of the page.

The scroll bar needs to move down

Mar 1 at 4:28pmWeb
Show threadKoboldCoterieMar 1
It’s the difference of controlling the character (mouse down -> head tilts down) or controlling a camera attached to the character (mouse down -> camera moves down -> camera stays pointing towards the character’s viewpoint -> view angles upwards) to me.
Show threadf4f4f4f4f4f4f4f4Mar 1
Makes sense. Let’s say you are standing with a tower directly in front of you. If you want to look at the top of the tower, you would tilt head back and step back to get a less acute angle. If you want to look at the base, you would step forward.
Show threadSludgeyyMar 2

I find it the most intuitive when thinking about flying a plane.

If there is one stick to control the plane

Imagine a toy plane on top of the stick

To make the plane climb in altitude you’d tilt the back of the toy plane down and point the nose up. That would mean pulling back on the stick.

Now if you stick a head on that stick. To make it look up it would be the same. Pull back.

Show threadSatyrSackMar 1
The only problem that I have with that is when Y is inverted, but X is not. It’s simple to wrap my head around “up actually means down”, but to simultaneously have to think “left actually means left” is confusing.
Show threadSludgeyyMar 1

In the image if you wanted to turn the character’s head to the left you point your fingers to the left.

You’re not wrapping your head around it correctly

“Up actually means down” is not what people that think with inverted Y-axis. It’s if I pull back the mouse/joystick it’s going to tilt the character’s eyes up.

Image you are flying a plane and you have a single control stick in front of you.

Which way do you move the stick to climb higher in the air?

Which way do you move the stick to turn left?

Show threadx00zMar 2
Inverted Y axis players are believed to have a higher intelligence.
Show threadSludgeyyMar 3

It’s just a different perspective

Most people that wouldn’t use inverted y axis for a mouse or joystick controller would fly a plane with a yoke “inverted”. Back goes up, forward goes down.

It’s easier to imagine sitting in a plane

Like it’s easier to imagine controlling a character on a screen if you were sitting in their head with a plane yoke to control. In that case it would be inverted.

Anyone can learn to use inverted y controls. Just it’s not the default everyone learns so it’s not “normal”