Cougar HOTAS and Target programming

[Spacky]

Hi All,

 

New to this forum, but have played Flight sims for quite some time on and off.:thumbup:

 

I have recently got back into Flaming Cliffs 2, dusted of the Thustmaster HOTAS Cougar and started compiling and testing an Advanced profile for the A10a in FC2.

Will do others once I have a good base.

 

So far all good with the A10 advanced profile, but i cant get the micro stick (mouse) BTN T1 on the throttle, to work and want it for the TDC movement for most aircraft profiles I will make.

The axis are visible in the TARGET software. (RDRX / RDRY)

 

Once i get this working will get FC3 and some DCS World modules woohoo.

 

Any suggestions, profiles to look at, etc would be greatly appreciated.

 

Cheers

Spacky

:helpsmilie:

[Home Fries]

Welcome to the forum, Spacky.

 

I'm also a Cougar+TARGET user; please feel free to see my profile in my signature, though it is designed with DCS World and FC3 in mind. Bottom line: it is very possible to do a single profile that works for all aircraft in FC2 simply by changing the individual keyboard and joystick lua files for each aircraft. I will also be happy to provide you with the lua files for FC3 from DCS World 1.2.7 (the last version to use full lua files like those in FC2); no promises that it will work, but it should give you some ideas. For starters, if you set S3 to a modifier (I use DX30) you can double your programing like you can with the Cougar, but without having to program extra stuff in TARGET. You just assign DX30 as a modifier in the FC2 Options menu and tie it to a different command (e.g. DX5 for weapon select, DX30+DX5 for cannon select in the Options menu).

 

Regarding the microstick, there's a bug in the target.tmh that reassigns/swaps two Cougar axes. RDR_X is actually the Antenna knob, and IN_POSITION_AXIS_SLIDER2 is the microstick X axis. Also, IIRC FC2 uses an absolute axis mapping for the radar cursor (i.e. if you center the microstick, the cursor returns to the center of the display). To get around that, set the axis parameters to MAP_RELATIVE. Here's what you should see for your microstick line:

MapAxis(&HCougar, IN_POSITION_AXIS_SLIDER2, DX_THROTTLE_AXIS, AXIS_NORMAL, MAP_RELATIVE);        [color=#32cd32]//Microstick X; line [/color][color=#32cd32]IN_POSITION_AXIS_SLIDER2 due to bug in tmh[/color]
MapAxis(&HCougar, RDR_Y, DX_YROT_AXIS, AXIS_NORMAL, MAP_RELATIVE);                               [color=#32cd32]//Microstick Y[/color]

I'm not sure what issue you're having with T1; the T1 button should map directly to DX19.

 

Hope this helps,

Edited December 3, 2014 by Home Fries