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New Virtual Keyboard I made a virtual keyboard for Scratchpad . It is not perfect but it works for me Scripts.rar

After you bild yourself the cockpit you will know with eyes close where is every switch. The problem is with mfd. But after some practice i can push the right button 80%. The gauges are printed . From the start i wanted to use it with oculus. I can t say that i am a big fan of f18. I enjoy more ww2 planes era. I own most of dcs modules but from modern planes i like su27 / 33/ mig29 which sadly are very poor implemented. So i needed a very big joystick .... that's why I built it :))) . my choice was f18 because it is alike ( kind of....) su27 and maybe i will like it too.. If all the screen and gauges were functional the amount of work time and money were exponentially higher. So i keep it simple. My Buttkicker lfe mini will arive monday and with andre software i hope to bring some life in it.

Interesting tutorial. Tx for the link. I found a software similar to TARGET called Joystick Gremlin . About lua files i will wait for 2.5 and after ED will provide a stable version.

here are all the steps : 1. search all the picture and materials with f18C - EASY/TIME CONSUMING 2. 3d model - i used the 3d model from FSX (is in the install folder) - I delete all the fuselage and i kept only cockpit. i scale it to 1:1 and i simplify it -remade some panels. (for this tasks i use some youtube tutorials and i call a friend 100 times - VERY HARD 3. buy some vectorial 2d panel drawings - 30$ -EASY 4. export 3d panels in vectorial format -MEDIUM 5. buy the wood panels - 50 $ -EASY 6. measure and cut the wood panels with a hand saw and file the edges - HARD 7. laser cut and engreve the faces of the panels - 170$ - EASY 8. search and buy push buttons, rotary encoders and toggle switches - 200$ - EASY/ VERY TIME CONSUMING 9. buy loebodnar controllers - 270$ - EASY 10. soldering the switches and wire the boards - MEDIUM/EXTREMELY TIME CONSUMING my advice are: 1 don t start this type of project if you are a person who start something and never finish it. 2 you have to be extremely patient 3 prepare to do mistake and start over again 4 you have to be very methodical My conclusion is that everybody can make this if he really want it and you don t have to be a NASA engineer. there a lot of information everywhere. Now my problem is that with leobodnar boards and joy2key software the switches in the on position mantain the keyboard press . if someone can help me i will be grateful.

5 leobodnar boards

After 2 month of hard work and zero skills i made this f18c cockpit. The wait for the module relese was much pleasent :doh: It is not 100% accurate but i will use it with oculus rift

If she can takeoff and land everyone can do it :))