Previous Thread
Next Thread
Print Thread
Rate This Thread
Hop To
#3948795 - 05/04/14 03:39 AM Best controls for fine tunning.  
Joined: Mar 2007
Posts: 483
Aullido Offline
Member
Aullido  Offline
Member

Joined: Mar 2007
Posts: 483
Hi,

In your opinion which are the aircraft's controls which most benefits from assigning an analog axis? I am programming a combined Warthog-Cougar, I will need to know which controls must use on analog and which axis would convert to digital. I plan to make the profile as generic as possible, so I need information about real life, for IL-2 and CoD.

Thanks.

Inline advert (2nd and 3rd post)

#3949069 - 05/05/14 12:12 AM Re: Best controls for fine tunning. [Re: Aullido]  
Joined: Dec 2013
Posts: 44
Laurwin Offline
Junior Member
Laurwin  Offline
Junior Member

Joined: Dec 2013
Posts: 44
Do you mean basically this, when you talk about analog / digital controls?

-digital etc... you must have wide range of motions? (like your roll pitch axis in main joystick)

-analog etc on / off switches only? (like landing gear for example on/off switch only, in most aircraft)


-suggestions for wide range of motion: throttle, flaps, prop pitch, trim controls for pitch roll and yaw (the last one same as rudder)

-you could use radiator for single positions, with simple button commands, such as, generalized position settings 100%, 20% 50% 0% etc...

-war emergency power on/off single position simple button

-you also need single positions with simple buttons, with, supercharger stage increase and decrease, and fuel mixture increase and decrease.

These would be for fighter aircraft.

Last edited by Laurwin; 05/05/14 12:13 AM.
#3950615 - 05/08/14 03:57 AM Re: Best controls for fine tunning. [Re: Aullido]  
Joined: Mar 2007
Posts: 483
Aullido Offline
Member
Aullido  Offline
Member

Joined: Mar 2007
Posts: 483
Just to make myself more clear, I am looking for advice about the most useful/sensitive control for flight.

On IL-2 the flaps has 4 positions: Retracted, Combat, Take off and landing. Is worthwhile to assign an analog axis to this function? I read somewhere about a P-51 pilot mentioning setting their flaps to 26 degrees exactly, I don't know if that is combat flaps or the setting of an ace.

Prop Pitch is very important. I almost sure that is better to dedicate an axis to this function than trimming or flaps. I need to know the priority of the controls.

We only have 8 DX Axis, I am not sure if keep the cougar separated from TARGET to increase the number of analog axis or program the Warthog/Cougar to switch from 1 engine to two engine settings in the case of fighters. The Cougar's throttle is more ergonomic and have two very accessible analog axis at hand. If I combine the joysticks, I can still use programing to use the other axis as key senders, but that depends of the game's controls. Maybe with IL-2 the mixture adjust each 10% is fine enough and I could program this by key-press.

Thanks to Laurwin for his help and thanks in advance for further comments.


Moderated by  RacerGT 

Quick Search
Recent Articles
Support SimHQ

If you shop on Amazon use this Amazon link to support SimHQ
.
Social


Recent Topics
Grown ups joke time
by NoFlyBoy. 03/18/24 10:34 PM
Anyone Heard from Nimits?
by F4UDash4. 03/18/24 10:01 PM
RIP Gemini/Apollo astronaut Tom Stafford
by semmern. 03/18/24 02:14 PM
10 years after 3/8/2014
by NoFlyBoy. 03/17/24 10:25 AM
Hans Zimmer North American concert tour 2024
by NoFlyBoy. 03/16/24 10:54 PM
Steam Spring Sale.
by RedToo. 03/15/24 09:09 PM
Starship Attempt Three
by F4UDash4. 03/14/24 12:06 PM
This is one cool turbofan model
by Zamzow. 03/14/24 02:41 AM
Map Errors
by F4UDash4. 03/13/24 11:25 AM
Copyright 1997-2016, SimHQ Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Powered by UBB.threads™ PHP Forum Software 7.6.0