Calling all lateral thinkers - I have controller question

[335th_GRAthos]

OK, ok, so no X52.... hmmmmm


Well, first solution would be to buy a second throttle quadrant (that is what I did).

Second is, you can try something that Sokol wrote today:

You can assign the throttle to a combination of KEY+joystick axis(I have not tested it myself but was amazed to read about it):
So allocate:
CTRL+left thumb stick y-axis for your throttle. The moment you leave CTRL your y-axis is no longer active for throttle command.

To make maters easier I would allocate instead of CTRL a joystick button like the one on top of your left thumb.


As said I have no personal experience so thank okol if it worked.

And please post the results (it saves me the efford trying to test it myself)

Happy Flying

~S~

[matsher]

Originally Posted by 335th_GRAthos

OK, ok, so no X52.... hmmmmm


Well, first solution would be to buy a second throttle quadrant (that is what I did).

Second is, you can try something that Sokol wrote today:

You can assign the throttle to a combination of KEY+joystick axis(I have not tested it myself but was amazed to read about it):
So allocate:
CTRL+left thumb stick y-axis for your throttle. The moment you leave CTRL your y-axis is no longer active for throttle command.

To make maters easier I would allocate instead of CTRL a joystick button like the one on top of your left thumb.


As said I have no personal experience so thank okol if it worked.

And please post the results (it saves me the efford trying to test it myself)

Happy Flying

~S~

Interesting... So kinda like a shift function. So hold a button to activate the axis function.
Then release button to deactivate axis function while I am holding the thumb stick at the desired angle. Am I getting it right?

So lets pretend I assign prop pitch on engines 1-4 on the gamepad's 4 button D-pad. (eg engine 1 - top D-button, engine 2 - right D-button etc) Could I hold down a D-pad button move the thumb stick down, release D-pad button, then release thumb stick and have that engines prop pitch stay at the desired %???

Maybe thats asking too much.

Cool I could try it out... How do I assign that functionality?
To my knowledge you can't assign a joy button in the axis control settings.

Thanks for your advice GRAthos... Will most certainly feedback if it proves user friendly.


However, I can't shake the feeling that I am missing something basic here.
I want those 4 extra axisesessss to act like a mouse wheel does...
You can assign a function to mouse wheel scroll up and you can assign a
seperate function to mouse wheel scroll down...

Is there a way to split the thumb stick axis in half - assign a function to +Y axis
and assign a different (opposite) function to -Y axis... Same goes for the X and Z axisesesess.

The old IL2 could separate a single axis into - & + values... Thinking about it
is making my head hurt.

Hope I can get many and interesting solutions to experiment with.