Download the DCS Detent Calculator Spreadsheet by JC of DI on the User Files site:
https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/files/3315617/
Hello all! I created a way for folks with afterburner detents to easily generate custom user curve numbers so that the MIL location of their aircraft perfectly aligns with their throttle detent. My original creation was in the computer language I am most familiar with - Microsoft Excel. Fortunately, one of my first testers was community member Bailey who has made several fantastic apps. Bailey's testing help expanded into a full collaboration, turning my calculator into the standalone program that you see posted above. The utility has been tested with multiple controllers and multiple detents.
In the User Files download you'll have both the standalone and the original Excel versions of the calculator that you may choose from, as well as a ReadMe that shows how to find your physical detent location and generate the numbers that you will put into your DCS axis profile.
If you would like to check out the code, head over to Bailey's GitHub here: https://github.com/asherao/DCS-Detent-Calculator
Also, find more of Bailey’s work on the DCS User Files site. https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/files/filter/user-is-baileywa/apply/
Feel free to reply in this thread or reach me on Discord, username `@jcofdi`.
Thank you very much for your time. Enjoy the flights!
– JC
5/22/01 -
Thank you so much to everyone who has tried and shared the Detent Calculator so far! The v1015 update now available on the User Files site completes the work done with the help of users in this thread to include options for inverted axes, x saturation, and deadzone changes. These options are currently only available in the Excel file and the new Google Sheets document, created to allow wider access to those without spreadsheet software available.
10/30/22 -
Thank you to everyone who have shared and used this tool! My algebra professor would be ecstatic to know that nearly 2,000 people have downloaded something I made using y=mx+b With DCS 2.8 came some changes to the axis tune window which made the detent location much easier to determine. This change spurred me to also release some further requests such as the Mirage-F1, the AH-64D engine lockout range, and some updated values for the AJS37, F-16, F/A-18, and JF-17 to help the MIL location map a little more closely. These changes are only available in the spreadsheet versions of the tool currently.
7/9/23 -
Thank you to everyone who reached out and encouraged me to update this for the F-15E. I have taken the opportunity to understand the detent special options supplied by Razbam for the F-15E, M-2000C, and Aerges for the Mirage F1. With these changes I have also made the hard decision to no longer include the software app by Bailey as part of this download. I want to thank Bailey again for the time, knowledge, efforts, and resources provided to me during the previous versions of these releases. With being a code dunce I just can't keep up the software side myself, and so the differences between the two I feel just leads to confusion for new users and offers nothing to users returning to the software for the latest airframes or changes. Thank you also to everyone who continues to support this little spreadsheet nerdery of mine - over 3,000 downloads on the User Files site, a how-to video by OverKill Simulations, and a repurposing of the data into a browser-based tool that reads your throttle position live by Zweihander are just a few of the highlights that I couldn't have imagined when I first made this.