Logitech G940

[Schallmoser]

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...

best wishes
Schallmoser

[Qpassa]

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...
Thanks evil owl

[MikkOwl]

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.

[MikkOwl]

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.

[kimosabi]

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.

[Stanger]

Originally Posted by Qpassa

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...
Thanks evil owl

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.

[MikkOwl]

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.

[Stanger]

Wow thanks for the quick reply. I see you like to tinker with things. So do I. I have a lot of spare time on my hands. The group I fly with is AG-51. We are a Pacific carier operations with 20 active members. We even meet once a year for a tailhook lan party.

I see you are a moddeler. We have one fellow on our squad I think he does it full time. lol. Post a pic when you are done with that Hellcay if you like. Love to see it. My fav plane is the P-51.

O yea I think my shaking is mostly from the plane shaking from the guns firing. It is like a double effect. I want the shake becuase I want to feel the edge of a stall. I noticed how wing mounted guns shake a lot more than nose guns in which it should. When you take shake out it will shake just a little bit when you use guns. Put shake back in and when you use guns it is a lot worse. Seems like a multiplier thing going on.

If you need some one to help with the tinkering or a tester with this project on the g940 let me know.

Thanks again.

[ECV56_Guevara]

I got a 940 since about a month. I got an issue whit the FF: The FF disengages sometimes an re engage a few minuts later later. Any clue? thanks in advance

[MikkOwl]

Good news everyone - managed to make autohotkey (the program I use) to control the leds on the G940 throttle. So far it's not connected to the game however and so I can only control stupid things and assumptions like "press landing gear button = turn it yellow. wait 5 seconds then red" or "arm cannon = turn it red" and other things. Could get 'out of sync' compared to what is really going on in the game but would be better than nothing.

Working on getting info from game through devicelink to make the game info be able to affect the lights. Difficult...

I did manage to get my G940 throttle to control throttle in game using devicelink as well, but not two engines yet. WOrk work work