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Thanks to the OP for this great post and all those who have helped clarify. If anyone has a .lua file for PPjoy and BS they'd be willing to share I would be very grateful. Been having good deal of trouble setting mine up. Thanks :joystick:

EDIT: I also put the headtracker.dll into the bin folder. According to FaceTrackNoIR, BS looks for this headtracker.dll file when booting up, but apparently it isn't finding it. Still looking through the documentation to make this work but not finding much. How would I know if BS is using the headtracker.dll? Is there anything I can check? Thanks.

Greetings all, I'm trying to use FaceTrackNoIR (FTN) to work with BS v1.0.2. I've been through as many posts and setup guides as I can find, and still I can't get FTN to work in BS. What I've done so far. I've installed and launched FaceAPI (from Seeing Machines) and that works fine. I've installed FTN v1.6, and FTN picks up on the FaceAPI program fine, so that all works. When running FTN I set the profile to default, the Tracker Source to FaceAPI, and the Game Protocol to Fake TrackIR. This all seems to work fine so far. After launching BS, I use TrackIRfixer, which responds that it found the correct thing and corrected the problem. Yet when I start a mission in BS, there is no face tracking and I cannot look about the cockpit. I am running Win 7 x64 on an i7 machine, although BS is a 32 bit x86 install. I also use the Saitek X52 Pro system (stick, throttle pedals). How do I get BS to communicate with FaceTrackNoIR?

No I don't use SST. For a number of reasons. 1. You can not program 2 buttons to do 1 thing, like what I've been talking about. 2. If an SST profile is active, many of the button functions I have programmed in DCS will not function correctly or will not function at all. 3. SST is known for causing crashes or freezes. Honestly I don't see the point of using SST when everything can be programmed in DCS. Or at least you should be able to. Frankly SST seems a bit anemic to me. If I setup a SST profile many of my other functions programmed in DCS will not work. What I'm trying to do is actually extremely simple, which is to use button 7 as a modifier button. It's like using any other key on a keyboard to modify another key or button, except it's a key/button located on the throttle. This way I can literally double the function of each button on my stick and throttle. Just one example of that is I can use POV HAT 2 to not just slew the shkval, but also then zoom and frame the shkval simply by holding button 7. Does that makes sense? It's based on a profile that Puddlemonkey posted a few years ago here http://forum.lockon.ru/showthread.php?t=83752&page=2 It is actually working very well, all except for button 5 or 'C' button. As far as my button 5 goes, it works in everything else, and it lights up on the applet panel when installing the drivers. The problem is in BS and I would like to figure out what it is.

Another shortcoming of SST is that you cannot program two buttons for one function. For instance if I want to make button 7 on my X52 Pro the 'alternate function' button, which will temporarily modify the function of other buttons, it can't be done. Different Modes notwithstanding, you can only program each button alone to do only one thing. Another reason not to use SST IMO.

I try uninstalling and reinstalling the Saitek drivers. I also redid the stick/control commands in the DCS options-controls menu, still no joy. I add some picture to help illustrate what is happening. I add a picture of the joystick so you know what button I'm referring to. Here is the main DCS controls menu. The trim reset is currently set to JOY_BTN5 + JOY_BTN7 as a modifer. This works good. Next is a picture of the dialog box, where a joystick button can be assigned to a BS control, in this case which is JOY_BTN5 to the trim. As soon as I hit the 'OK' button to make the change, I next get a program crash as you will see in the picture. I have checked and double checked the X52 Pro. There seem to be no problem as everything else is working very flawlessly. Does anyone please have any suggestion?

Hey Erforce, Yes you are correct, it is button 'C'. It shows up as JOY_BTN5 in the BS control profile options. It works fine if I assign it along with a modifier. For example, the Trimmer Reset is currently set to JOY_BTN5 + JOY_BTN7 and it works fine to reset the Trim, but if I try to assign BTN5 alone -no modifier- that's when is crashes the program (the moment I hit the 'OK' button to assign it). There are no blinking lights, and as far as I can tell no other button or joystick control crashes the program. Only BTN5. Everything else seems to work perfectly. I'm using BTN7 as a modifier (secondary function type thing) so I can cram as many controls as I can into the stick and throttle so I'll seldom have to take my hands off them. Although I have it, I am not familiar with using SST software.

Greetings ED Forums, I recently got rid of an older worn HOTAS stick I was using to replace it with a new X52 Pro system along with the Saitek Pro pedals. Everything seems to work fine, except for button 5 (BTN5), the left-most 'flat' button on the stick head. When I enter BTN5 for the Trimmer control, it freezes the simulator and causes a forced close of the program. The weird thing is that if I enter BTN5 with a modifier, such as a keyboard shortcut, or BTN7 on the throttle which I also use as a modifier, it works just fine. It's only when I use BTN5 alone ... and it is at the moment that I hit the 'OK' button that everything freezes and has to be closed. The idea was to use BTN5 for the Trimmer, and BTN5 + BTN7 as the Trimmer Reset, as I understand this is a common way of doing it. But regardless of what I enter BTN5 (alone) for, it crashes the program. I've been searching the forums for about 3 days looking for the answer to this specific problem but so far I haven't found any solution. Is there anything I can change, check or modify to test why BTN5 is crashing the program when entered? Thank you.