Author Topic: Visual Stallhorn Option  (Read 853 times)

Offline boomerlu

  • Silver Member
  • ****
  • Posts: 1163
Visual Stallhorn Option
« on: September 18, 2009, 04:29:08 AM »
As the title says. I haven't thought about the particulars yet. This may be relatively low on the to-do list, but it should be easy enough to implement.

The reason I ask: we do have a few deaf pilots out there in the virtual skies. While nothing can give them the sound of an enemy behind them firing guns or Vox communication, this is one thing we CAN give them.
boomerlu
JG11

Air Power rests at the apex of the first triad of victory, for it combines mobility, flexibility, and initiative.

Offline Denholm

  • Plutonium Member
  • *******
  • Posts: 9667
      • No. 603 Squadron
Re: Visual Stallhorn Option
« Reply #1 on: September 18, 2009, 07:26:14 AM »
As long as there is an enable/disable feature for it.
Get your Daily Dose of Flame!
FlameThink.com
No. 603 Squadron... Visit us on the web, if you dare.

Drug addicts are always disappointed after eating Pot Pies.

Offline Strip

  • Gold Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 3319
Re: Visual Stallhorn Option
« Reply #2 on: September 18, 2009, 07:29:18 AM »
Whenever I play with my headset off I lose feel for the aircraft.

I can imagine this is what they deal with all the time. Nice idea!

Offline usvi

  • Silver Member
  • ****
  • Posts: 994
Re: Visual Stallhorn Option
« Reply #3 on: September 18, 2009, 11:57:59 AM »
As long as there is an enable/disable feature for it.
:aok
"Come with me and I will show you where the Iron Crosses grow." -Unteroffizer/Feldwebel Rolf Steiner

~POTW-Second Wing~
http://www.pigsonthewing.org/index.php

Offline Ack-Ack

  • Radioactive Member
  • *******
  • Posts: 25260
      • FlameWarriors
Re: Visual Stallhorn Option
« Reply #4 on: September 18, 2009, 12:16:41 PM »
Shane just used to use a FF stick. 


ack-ack
"If Jesus came back as an airplane, he would be a P-38." - WW2 P-38 pilot
Elite Top Aces +1 Mexican Official Squadron Song

Offline boomerlu

  • Silver Member
  • ****
  • Posts: 1163
Re: Visual Stallhorn Option
« Reply #5 on: September 18, 2009, 12:18:39 PM »
As long as there is an enable/disable feature for it.
Yes this is my thought as well. Since most of us get enough warning from the audio, we would probably keep it off. I'm pretty sure some people would benefit from it though - whether from being deaf, not having sound available on the computer for whatever reason, or if they just like having a huge warning sign.
boomerlu
JG11

Air Power rests at the apex of the first triad of victory, for it combines mobility, flexibility, and initiative.

Offline boomerlu

  • Silver Member
  • ****
  • Posts: 1163
Re: Visual Stallhorn Option
« Reply #6 on: September 18, 2009, 12:20:03 PM »
Shane just used to use a FF stick. 
True enough, and an idea that would work. Still, not everybody can afford/wants an FF stick or an FF device etc etc. It's also throwing money at a problem which can admittedly work, but is it the best way of dealing with it?
boomerlu
JG11

Air Power rests at the apex of the first triad of victory, for it combines mobility, flexibility, and initiative.

Offline Ack-Ack

  • Radioactive Member
  • *******
  • Posts: 25260
      • FlameWarriors
Re: Visual Stallhorn Option
« Reply #7 on: September 18, 2009, 12:21:51 PM »
True enough, and an idea that would work. Still, not everybody can afford/wants an FF stick or an FF device etc etc. It's also throwing money at a problem which can admittedly work, but is it the best way of dealing with it?

If you ever see Shane online, ask him.


ack-ack
"If Jesus came back as an airplane, he would be a P-38." - WW2 P-38 pilot
Elite Top Aces +1 Mexican Official Squadron Song

Offline TwinTail

  • Nickel Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 508
Re: Visual Stallhorn Option
« Reply #8 on: September 18, 2009, 12:23:45 PM »
Turn stall horn and stress off, learn to fly without em  :aok

I turned them off a long time ago becuase they annoyed the heck out of me, now that im used to it i can usaully judge a stall before it happens without an aid.

TT
d-40 and d-11 easily out turn a spixteen
==*Top Gun*==
TwinTail

Offline 100goon

  • Copper Member
  • **
  • Posts: 253
Re: Visual Stallhorn Option
« Reply #9 on: September 18, 2009, 02:09:41 PM »
Turn stall horn and stress off, learn to fly without em  :aok

I turned them off a long time ago becuase they annoyed the heck out of me, now that im used to it i can usaully judge a stall before it happens without an aid.

TT

+1 for TT and +1 for the post becuase think tt if your deaf you cannot hear, or cannot hear well, so stress and stall horn, or any sounds volume wouldent matter
Claim Jumpers


Offline Strip

  • Gold Member
  • *****
  • Posts: 3319
Re: Visual Stallhorn Option
« Reply #10 on: September 18, 2009, 02:44:30 PM »
Hearing the stall horn is an issue for me....

When I fly its constantly on, its when it goes off that I worry, usually means the plane is in a nasty stall and quit flying altogether.

 :D

Offline Noir

  • Platinum Member
  • ******
  • Posts: 5964
Re: Visual Stallhorn Option
« Reply #11 on: September 18, 2009, 02:50:23 PM »
As the title says. I haven't thought about the particulars yet. This may be relatively low on the to-do list, but it should be easy enough to implement.

The reason I ask: we do have a few deaf pilots out there in the virtual skies. While nothing can give them the sound of an enemy behind them firing guns or Vox communication, this is one thing we CAN give them.

+1, I'd like to see multicolour icons too, as I'm color blind.
now posting as SirNuke

Offline AWwrgwy

  • Platinum Member
  • ******
  • Posts: 5478
Re: Visual Stallhorn Option
« Reply #12 on: September 18, 2009, 03:19:16 PM »
+1, I'd like to see multicolour icons too, as I'm color blind.

Can you change enemy icon color with the GUI preferences on the clipboard or is that map only?

I know you can change friendly icon colors....


wrongway
71 (Eagle) Squadron
"THAT"S PAINT!!"

"If nothing else works, a total pig-headed unwillingness to look facts in the face will see us through."
- General Sir Anthony Cecil Hogmanay

Offline Noir

  • Platinum Member
  • ******
  • Posts: 5964
Re: Visual Stallhorn Option
« Reply #13 on: September 18, 2009, 03:35:23 PM »
Can you change enemy icon color with the GUI preferences on the clipboard or is that map only?

I know you can change friendly icon colors....


wrongway

I know, you can change them all, but whatever the color I choose, it always comes in confict with another color...example red is pretty difficult for me to see over green background.
now posting as SirNuke

Offline Stalwart

  • Silver Member
  • ****
  • Posts: 1055
Re: Visual Stallhorn Option
« Reply #14 on: September 29, 2009, 05:29:28 PM »
+1 with enable/disable