use 2 joystick axes to pan view?
 

I have a 5-axis joystick. After setting up pitch/yaw/roll, I still have a 2-axis thumbstick left over. I'd like to use it to control the view in IL-2 1946. However, I can't figure out how to get this set up. The game options don't seem to support this...I can map an axis to view zoom, or I can map a hat switch to control the view, but I can't map an axis to the view.

I tried looking at newview but it didn't seem like it supported this either (though maybe I missed it...it has a lot of options, and the manual is in russian). A few google searches didn't turn up any promising leads.

So is this possible? Anyone else have it set up?

(If it matters, I have IL-2 1946, 4.10m patch, window 7 64-bit, and the joystick is an xbox 360 controller)

NewView continue improved - the last version is IL-2 CLoD compatible.
But is PITA to configure.

You can easy use this 2 axis to control vision.
Get Joytokey.
In "preferences" tick box "Use other axis than x and y".
Create new profile.
Select one axis from you thumbstick.
Ie axis 3 (>0) click two times.
In the new windows go to tab "Mouse"
Select "cursor movement" horizontal, move slider to right side until ~50
The select axis 3(<0)
Select "cursor movement" horizontal, move slider to lefth side until ~ -50
Same for axis 4, "cursor movement" vertical.

Now you thumbstick control mouse cursor. And in IL-2 control de "mouse view".

Sokol1

Excellent! Didn't even know I was searching for that answer!

that's a great suggestion, thanks!

I ended up figuring out how to get newview to work. On the "URGear" tab you can choose joystick axes, and using a thumbstick for the axes works just fine. Also I had to upgrade to version 37.