No problem:
I have uploaded it :grin:
http://qpassa.site90.net/Joystick.rar

G940 dual throttle support released
 

I cleaned things up and put together a bunch of goodies for use, especially with the G940, and IL-2.

EDIT: VERSION 2.0 Finished and released. Link updated. See post further down the page.
http://hem.bredband.net/mikko.artist...by_MikkOwl.rar

Enjoy!

You can check out each thing in the goodie pack, but the main two things you'll want to run is the Dual Throttle support and the individual engine program.

The dual throttle does what you think it does (through keyboard emulation). The individual button one makes the four left-most buttons on the G940 throttle do individual engine control. The upper ones (P1 and P2) start/stop the left and right engine individually. The lower ones (P5 and P6) feathers the left and right propeller respectively.

Up to the sky with your twin engines! Bf 110, P38 and Me 262 wheee! (not bad with some Junkers 88, B-25, Bleinheim, Ac-20, Pe-2 and Pe-3 either). :D

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Although I forgot to mention in the included readmes, it feels and looks much nicer when flying if you go into your conf.ini file and change "NoHudLog=0" to "NoHudLog=1". That removes all the 'engine 2 selected" "power 35%" that keeps spamming your screen otherwise.

Thanks again Qpassa!

Hi MikkOwl

That's really great what you have done there!!!
Thank you very much for all that work!!!

I can't wait to try that this evening...:grin:

best wishes
Schallmoser

Ill check this afternoon (7 hours left)
I am a bomber pilot so dual throttle will be awesome :3.
Is there some way to keep colours of the buttons of the throttle? I hate the green... :D
Thanks evil owl ;)

It should all work well, assuming you bind the keys exactly like instructed in the game (the throttle program keeps pressing 'select engine 1' 'select all engines' 'select engine 2' and then 'set power 50' and maybe an extra 'increase power') whenever the throttles are moved. If these keys being pressed are not bound to the right function in the game, annoying and puzzling results would no doubt ensue :)

To set the power to 110%, the program has to send first the engine selection, then power 100%, then two presses of "increase power" (first one gets it to 105%, the second to 110%). Strangely it works flawlessly. What an odd way of having to play around to get stuff working right. Luckily IL-2 accepts keypresses at lightspeed so it's possible to send a whole string of presses in a few milliseconds time, to get ultra-fast response.

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As for the color changing, do you mean to keep the new assignments after a computer restart? I haven't really checked but I got the impressions mine did remember (but I rarely restart due to computer sometimes not booting quite right). Either way, put that little color-changing program with the rest of the extra stuff you use (maybe the dual throttle program etc). That way you can go in and change all the colors in like 20 seconds whenever you need to.

Darnit, I forgot to include my 'make the Trim 3 knob control the sound volume'. I'll put it up later if anyone would want that. It's a knob, easy to reach, so having that to change volume fast is very convenient for me.

Version 2.0 finished, a major improvement of the 1.0 I posted this morning.

http://hem.bredband.net/mikko.artist...by_MikkOwl.rar

It does not contain the extra goodies, but we'll get to those later. I focused on making this as good as possible and as easy to understand as possible instead.

It is now a fully fledged multi throttle program for IL-2, supporting all device axises you may have connected. You can have up to four axises, one for each engine on a B-17 for example. Or you can use a dual throttle to control the engine pairs on the left and right side, makes it much more fun and intuitive to turn them while taxiing on the runway, and when flying.

More features coming in version 3.0. Individual buttons for turning each engine on and off, and feathering each engine propeller, as well as toggling magnetos individually for each engine.

Thanks Mikkowl but more than two engines are for sissies. Besides, my four leftmost buttons are occupied, I don't think I can re-learn them. ;)

You don't have to use any buttons for anything :) Neither of the versions (2.0 is the one to have) have anything to do with turning the engines on/off and feathering. All they do is let you use several throttle axis (like the G940 twin throttle, or a CH/Saitek quadrant) bound to control 2-4 engines individually in the game itself. Without it, you're limited to a single axis and can't use the others to control more than one engine.

My colors stay changed after a restart. Maybe the not sticking after a restart is a admin account security thing.

Mikkowl thanks for your hard work in getting more joy out of this stick.
You mentioned a directx force editor. Where can I get this? I tried removing the guns force file in game but the guns still shake. I am using the Hellcat for testing.

The Microsoft "Force Editor" can be found in the downloadable link at the bottom of this page (the 'sin' one)
http://www.vourtsis.com/sindarin/DLLS/index.html

As for the hellcat, any force feedback regarding it's 12.7mm machine guns should disappear if you remove or rename the 'autocannon.ffe' and 'machinegun.ffe'. A nicer alternative is of course to edit the files instead to lower the effect a bit. The real planes back then did shake when firing, and the larger the caliber and the more the guns, with a lighter airframe, the worse it was.

However, this was more through the seat and your ass than the stick, which being mounted on a gimbal, can only transmit vertical forces (the 'up-down' motion of the vibration). I doubt it affected gunnery very much in either case, so setting it so it is not very intrusive is probably the right setting, unless limiting sound is the goal.

PS: I am building a 1:48 scale model injection kit Hellcat F6F-3. It's on my desk. Had a tragic build accident though where something fell on it while on it's landing gear, snapping both into pieces. I will try to improvise a repair somehow, despite a piece even going missing. It's my first 'real' attempt at a build since i was 11 years old or so. Bought tons of modeling tools and material. Bf 110E, Fw 190 A-8 and a F-4 Phantom II "Jolly Rogers" (Navy), all in the same scale.