Using iPad as extended touchbuddy touchscreen monitor for CoD/IL2! Really Cool!!!

[FS~Phat]

Some of you guys might of heard of Touchbuddy, well I got it working on my iPad to use virtual cockpit touchscreen controls in CoD (and IL2 too!) with Air Display.

It even works with nvidia surround or AMD Eyefinity!

A nice guy called Buccaneer has already created a profile for a hurricane.
Im going to try adapt it for the spit!
You can control the following with his default profile. (room to add a lot more too!)

Controls
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Gear Up
Gear Down
PITOT Heater
Fuel on/reserve/off
magneto on/off
engine start
slow running
flaps up
flaps down
bail
pause
esc
instrument lights
reflector sight
open/close canopy
pressure head heat
nav lights
gun camera
Directional Giro Decrease
Directional Giro Increase
Course Setter Increase
Course Setter Decrease

Views
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External
Chase
Flyby

Friendly Units
Friendly Aircraft
Friendly Vehicles
Friendly Ships

Enemy Units
Enemy Aircraft
Enemy Vehicles
Enemy Ships
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Detailed Map of the Channel

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Fraps controls
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Screen shots









What you will need if you want attempt this is;

1. iPad 1 or 2 (or iphone/ipod touch too - less resolution to play with obviously and you'll need to make your own screens)

2. Air Display for iPad by Avatron from the app store. (Its a bit expensive for an iPad App at $10 but it has so many more uses than just for gaming!

3. Air Display for PC from ipad.avatron.com

4. Wireless network at home

5. Touch buddy from > http://www.touch-buddy.com/forums/lo...ks.php?catid=1

6. CoD Profile from touchbuddy forum > http://www.touch-buddy.com/forums/lo...N&pp=10&page=2

7. Optional! Touchbuddy toolkit 1.3.4 > http://www.touch-buddy.com/forums/lo...N&pp=10&page=2

A couple tips.
You'll have to map the CoD keys to match the CoD profile in the readme.
You'll also need to change mouseuse=2 to mouseuse=1 in the conf.ini in your 1C softclub directory for the touch screen to work while in the game!

Ill take a video in the next couple days of it in action.

[lensman1945]

Sweeeeeet!

At last I have a valid excuse to buy an iPad

[ATAG_knuckles]

Just bought my wife an iPad cor Christmas:

Haa its mine now Hoo Hooo Ho


Knuckles


Look forward to that video Phat

[Sokol1]

Good job.

I am curious, Navegation Lights and Gun Camera work?



Sokol1

[FS~Phat]

Originally Posted by Sokol1

Good job.

I am curious, Navegation Lights and Gun Camera work?



Sokol1

No they were just part of the panel that Buccaneer used. He must be using it for another game too.
I've already worked on the profile and scaled it from 800x600 to 1027x768 to match the iPad res and today Im going to re-task those switches and add some more!

[hc_wolf]

OMG! You are totally AWESOME!!!

I was about to buy the Asus Transformer Prime. Will this work with the Asus or do we have to use the Ipad?

Also How can we get a working app of this?

When can we get a downloadable file for us to use this with COD?

Love your work!

Would love to get this working, just need to find out a bit more about this touch buddy app. For starters? How does it connect to your pc? and how do I download the templates onto the iPad. It should make sense soon, but at the minute it just seems like witchcraft!

Jack

[MD_Titus]

Originally Posted by Jack Morris

seems like witchcraft!

computers in a nutshell

[FS~Phat]

Originally Posted by Jack Morris

Would love to get this working, just need to find out a bit more about this touch buddy app. For starters? How does it connect to your pc? and how do I download the templates onto the iPad. It should make sense soon, but at the minute it just seems like witchcraft!

Jack

The touchbuddy app runs in a few different modes.
1. Native On machine
2. Server mode
3. Client mode

I'm using it on my pc in native mode.
The Air display app for ipad/iphone adds an additional extended screen to your PC over your wireless network you run this on both the iPad and pc to create an extended desktop.

Then you launch touchbuddy in local native mode and drag the control panel to your extended screen on the iPad.

Set CoD control keys to match the readme for Touchbuddy for the touchscreen commands.
Change mouseuse=1 in the user copy of conf.ini in 1c softclub folder to enable the mouse/touch screen to work outside the CoD game window.

Technically you could use touchbuddy on another normal monitor and just use the mouse, and you can use it in client/server mode and run the client app on a laptop or 2nd PC.

Launch a game and then just use the controls either with mouse or touchscreen.

When you use touchbuddy with the Ipad it is still running on your PC, all you have done is extended your desktop with Air Display to create an additional wireless touchscreen monitor.

I used to use touchbuddy with an old 15" touch screen hooked up to laptop for 1946. Thats why I researched how to do this with the iPad for CoD. There are far more detailed control panels available for IL2 1946 which work in exactly the same way. You can also use UDPSpeed with Devicelink on IL2 1946 to see realtime virtual gauges.

There is also work going on now by another guy here on the forums to get IL2 virtual gauges working as a native app on iPhone and iPad! Look forward to when he finally releases the beta of that!

Hope that makes it clearer. Ill try take a video tonight with the iPhone 4S in HD so you can see touchbuddy/Air Display in action on CoD.

[FS~Phat]

Originally Posted by hc_wolf

OMG! You are totally AWESOME!!!

I was about to buy the Asus Transformer Prime. Will this work with the Asus or do we have to use the Ipad?

Also How can we get a working app of this?

When can we get a downloadable file for us to use this with COD?

Love your work!

My understanding is that the Asus transformer runs win7 so you would just run touchbuddy in client/server mode. No need for the air display app. See my description above of how to get a client/server version running. It should work exactly the same as with the iPad.

PS. avatron are also working on a Air Display app for some android based devices. No release date yet.