Hi everybody,

I couldn't find a satisfying keyboard reference for DCS: A10C yet, so I made my own. Maybe somebody else finds this useful:

dcsa10c-keybindings.pdf

It's all the combos from Config/Input/Aircrafts/A-10C/keyboard/default.lua, grouped and sorted alphabetically.

The Shortcuts are in a sort of Emacs Notation:
C is Control, M is Meta/Alt, W is Win, a small r prefix means it's the right one instead of the left one.

Cheers,
Olaf

Thank you. This is really helpful.

OlafM, that's a very nicely organized chart. We would like to add to the ED Wiki page as a training supplement here:
http://en.wiki.eagle.ru/wiki/DCS:_A10C_Training_Supplements

However, could you first add a legend to the file describing the shortcuts for those who are not going to see them on this page?

EvilBivol, I added an enumeration of the Modifier Notation. Turns out this makes the columnbreaks much nicer, too.

Please go ahead and add a copy to the ED Wiki. If I am going to make any further changes, I will post a notice in this thread.

Added. Thank you!

Nicely done! Control Manager Command File

I made one more minor adjustment to the keyboard reference. My lisp parser had a bit of trouble with the quote key, which is assigned to "score window". That quote did not show up previously.


I also generated a base profile for the Logitech Profiler:
dcsa10c-logitech-profile-commands.xml

This profile does not contain any button/hat/axis assignments, it just provides a profiler command for every defined keyboard command. If you are creating your G940 profile from scratch, this should be highly useful. Just import the xml file in the profiler and select the DCS.exe.

I finally got around to updating this.

DCS A-10C default keyboard bindings as in version 1.1.1.0

Apart from new keybindings for the UFC and the CDU, I could see only smaller changes.


As my little lisp program does most of the work anyway, I also created a reference for Black Shark 2

DCS Black Shark 2 default keyboard bindings

These are both of course for the Sim mode.

Despite this nice table, I can only recommend to customize your keyboard bindings--for instance, I control Master Arm, Gun Arm and Laser Arm switches with [A], [S] and [D] (for Arm, Shoot and Designate). The clickable cockpit is very nice, but particularly in combat, the keyboard is way more efficient.

Wow, that sure took a lot of work!

Thanks!

Well, actually most of it is automated. I wrote a little lisp program that reads the .lua file with the assignments and outputs a LaTeX document. Then I just have to insert the column and table breaks, as I haven't found a reliable and good-looking way to automate that.

Of course, I had to write the lisp program, which includes a rather simplistic (and still bug-ridden) lua-parser. But most of that I already wrote in spring, when I wanted to autogenerate profiles for the G940.

The code is actually already in a public repo at github, so in theory anybody could use that to create tables for their customised keyboard bindings. But as I said, it is not fully automatic yet and still has some bugs and it's not exactly straightforward to run.

I know this is purely since I'm American, but rM- means absolutely nothing to me and even just a S- or W- is confusing to read. I'd suggest typing out the full 'short' names of the keys would make it quite a bit more readable. I'd never even heard of a "Meta" key before this thread and since I never ever use the Left Win key for anything, I totally don't associate it with "Win". Using single letter existing keys for modifiers is confusing too. Is W-C-R the W key, C Key and R key? Or Windows key and C key and R key or Windows, Control and Return? See the change for confusion? LWin + LCtrl + R is clear and understandable.

Using RCtrl-M, LShift-S, LWin-Home, LAlt-NumPad2 instead of rC-M, S-S, W-Home, lM-Num2 would go a long way to making that chart more useful to me at least, probably others.

I'd suggest using these instead:

Modifier Notation:
Left Shift = LShift-
Right Shift = RShift-
Left Alt = LAlt-
Right Alt = RAlt-
Left Control = LCtrl-
Right Control = RCtrl-
Left Windows = LWin-
Right Windows = RWin-

kylania, the notation comes from the GNU Emacs notation for keyboard shortcuts. As in Emacs, modifier keys like Control, Alt (or Meta), Win cannot stand alone in DCS, and you cannot press two ordinary keys at once either. DCS, unlike Emacs, distinguishes left and right modifier keys, so a little r indicates the right modifier.

All of the modifiers are listed in the very first table for clarity.

"W-C-R" for instance means press Windows and Control modifiers and the R key.
Consecutive presses of W, C and R keys would be denoted "W C R".

The Emacs notation is very concise and precise at the same time, and I like that very much about it.

If I get around to it, I might check how the table looks with your longer notation. But as you can see, the second column is already used almost completely by some of the more complicated commands. So it would probably mess up the compact presentation.

Anyway, there are already other keyboard references around with your proposed style and A-10C even has a spreadsheet with all keyboard commands in the Doc folder.

Lisp, LaTeX, Emacs. Aw, the good memories.

Thanks OlafM!

I finally got around to update the reference to version 1.1.1.1 of both A-10C and BS2:

• Default keyboard bindings for DCS A-10C
• Default keyboard bindings for DCS A-10C, including unbound commands
• Default keyboard bindings for DCS Ka-50 (it seems everything is bound!)

The style has changed a little, so I don't have to split the tables manually for every new version.

But I kept the very concise notation: I made some experiments with longer notations, but those blew up the page count.

Fantastic. I had seen an older version but never knew where it came from. Thanks.

Brilliant - many thanks.