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python3 library designed to make developing RobotPy-based code easier!
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Make it easier to control tank drive robots in simulation #117

Closed virtuald closed 2 years ago

virtuald commented 6 years ago

Usually the way I work around this is adding an 'isSimulation' check which switches to arcade drive, but then it doesn't exercise the tank drive path. Would be nice to just provide a way to bind two joystick inputs together to make them easier to control.

ArchdukeTim commented 6 years ago

The only problem with this is getting it to turn since you need them to be opposite. Maybe it'd be better to have the keyboard act as a joystick with wasd and ijkl?

virtuald commented 6 years ago

I meant bind them together in such a way that it was easy to control. A keyboard based joystick would be cool too.

ArchdukeTim commented 6 years ago

Instead of the arcadeDrive in the robot code, maybe a circular joystick widget that converts arcade to tank?

virtuald commented 6 years ago

Exactly.

aidan-mundy commented 6 years ago

Tank drive in the sim is definitely a pain. I'd say the keyboard solution wouldn't work too well unless you have laser switches. Circular joystick widgets would be cool in general and may help to remedy this problem. Another option for users would be to swap the joystick numbers during sim to be right next to each other for easier tank drive. Along with this, what is the possibility of fixing the joystick inputs to work with typed in numbers? As of now, when you click on a joystick and type a number, 0 sets 0 and 1 sets 1, but I cant get in between by typing numbers in. This would make certain tank drive testing, and testing in general, easier because fine-tuning of the values you input helps a lot.

virtuald commented 6 years ago

I don't have much time to work on this at the moment, but I welcome potential fixes. The sim stuff all lives in https://github.com/robotpy/pyfrc/tree/master/lib/pyfrc/sim

auscompgeek commented 2 years ago

OBE. We no longer have our own simulation GUI.