P-51 Weapon related Shortcuts are gone!

[Blooddawn1942]

All the weapon related shortcuts are gone, as if the TF 51 control sheme was active for the P 51.

2 Weeks ago everything was just fine. I had all the weapon related input options mapped to my devices . But Since I fired the P-51 up just yesterday, I can only click the weapon related stuff in the cockpit, (Gunsight, Bomb and rocket fuses, fire button etc..)

Checking the Controll setup for the P 51 reveals, that there is no sub folder called weapons, which should be there.

Any ideas? A Mate of mine has the sme issue.:(

[KeyGirl]

Same to me :(

Since long time, i would fly some rounds and renew some key-bindings too. There no weapon related bindings. I cant fire any weapon or map controls to my joystick.

[Zabuzard]

Please check the content of the following file:

 

E:\Program Files\Eagle Dynamics\DCS World OpenBeta\Mods\aircraft\P-51D\Input\P-51D\joystick\default.lua

 

This file determines which buttons you can assign in the option menu for controllers like joystick etc.

 

In my file there do exist the correct entries for the weapon devices so I can assign them in my option menu:

 

 

Probably your input file is messed up and does not have this entries anymore. If that's the case you can delete this file and run DCS repair. This will download the original file again from the server.

 

If the file from the server should be corrupt you can modify your input file and just add the entries by yourself. In that case just use a working file like mine:

http://pastebin.com/nnnY2M6Z

 

Hope that will help you out :)

Edited October 31, 2015 by Zabuza

[Captain Orso]

There are only a couple of lines different between the DCS-World-1.2's P-51D joystick default.lua and DCS-World-1.5's P-51D joystick default.lua:

 

[TABLE]1.2|{down = iCommandViewLeftMirrorOn , up = iCommandViewLeftMirrorOff , name = _('Mirror left glance'), category = _('View Cockpit')},

1.5|{down = iCommandViewLeftMirrorOn , up = iCommandViewLeftMirrorOff , name = _('Mirror glance'), category = _('View Cockpit')},

1.2|{down = iCommandViewPlus, name = _('Camera ordinance tracking'), category = _('View Extended')},

1.5|{down = iCommandViewPlus, name = _('Toggle tracking launched weapon'), category = _('View Extended')},

1.2|{pressed = device_commands.Button_4, cockpit_device_id = devices.CPT_MECH, value_pressed = -1.0, name = _('Canopy Opening'), category = _('Systems')},

1.5|{pressed = device_commands.Button_4, cockpit_device_id = devices.CPT_MECH, value_pressed = -1.0, name = _('Canopy Closing'), category = _('Systems')},

1.2|{pressed = device_commands.Button_4, cockpit_device_id = devices.CPT_MECH, value_pressed = -1.0, name = _('Canopy Closing'), category = _('Systems')},

1.5|{pressed = device_commands.Button_4, cockpit_device_id = devices.CPT_MECH, value_pressed = 1.0, name = _('Canopy Opening'), category = _('Systems')},

1.2|{down = iCommandPlane_P_51_WarEmergencyPower, name = _('Enable War Emergency Power'), category = _('Flight Control')},

1.5|(no comparable line[/TABLE]Differences as found by WinMerge comparing files.

 

The issues you are having may come from non-default control settings. If you want to have the exact settings in 1.5 as in 1.2, go into 1.2 and export each input category (keyboard, mouse, joystick, etc) as a LUA file and then import each of these files into 1.5 control setting, each into its correct category. That's what I did and it worked well.

[Blooddawn1942]

I had it all perfect working in 1.5.

I tried deleting the mentioned flie and did the repair run. The file has been restored but still I don´t have all the weapon related shortcuts as if I was in the TF 51. I checked the lua file with the wordpad, and indeed there are command lines for K14 gunsight and weapon release etc. But they don´t appear in the DCS World controller setup menu.

I have no further ideas what could be done.

Strange thing is, in the setup menu, the weapon related shortcuts for the "Arcade-P51" are there.

[Blooddawn1942]

As an example here is a copy and paste of the command lines for the stick which contains hte commands for weapon release and gunfire. They are maped to my warthog buttons 1 and 2 as they should be. But nothing appears ingame.

 

 

-- Stick

{combos = {{key = 'JOY_BTN2'}}, down = iCommandPlanePickleOn, up = iCommandPlanePickleOff, name = _('Weapon release'), category = _('Stick')},

{combos = {{key = 'JOY_BTN1'}}, down = iCommandPlaneFire, up = iCommandPlaneFireOff, name = _('Gun fire'), category = _('Stick')},

[Blooddawn1942]

I tried another thing. I deleted all Joystick lua files from the P-51 sim and easy and the TF-51 sim and easy and did the repair function again. All files have been restored but nothing changed ingame.

[Captain Orso]

Okay, I'm confused, but that wouldn't be the first time :huh:

 

So, with all of your input devices attached to your PC and ready,

 

- you start DCS-World 1.5

 

- you click on the settings gear at the top of the screen

 

- you select--if not already selected--Layer 'P-51D Sim'

 

- you select Category 'Stick'

 

and you don't get something which looks like this?

 

[Blooddawn1942]

Thats true.

Categories like K-14 and stick are kompletly missing.

Sorry, the attached screenshots features only german settings, but You can clearly see, that there is no K-14 and no "Waffen" (Weapons)...

 

[Blooddawn1942]

OK, did some testing, and this is how it is:

If I start DCS and hop in a P-51, everything is just fine. I can map all the weapon related shortcuts in the pause menu.

But...

If I start DCS and open the setup menu or hop in a TF-51 before I hop in a P-51, things remain as I explained. As if the TF-51 controll setup overleaps the P-51....

Really strange

[ratherbegliding]

Okay, I'm confused, but that wouldn't be the first time :huh:

 

So, with all of your input devices attached to your PC and ready,

 

- you start DCS-World 1.5

 

- you click on the settings gear at the top of the screen

 

- you select--if not already selected--Layer 'P-51D Sim'

 

- you select Category 'Stick'

 

and you don't get something which looks like this?

 

 

I'm having a similar issue.

When I look at the above screen there are no keyboard or joystick button assignments (it's blank) and what's more, I can't make any changes????

 

I can quite happily change non-weapon assignments eg flaps.

 

I haven't had a chance to look at the lua file yet.

 

RBG

[Zabuzard]

I'm having a similar issue.

When I look at the above screen there are no keyboard or joystick button assignments (it's blank) and what's more, I can't make any changes????

 

I can quite happily change non-weapon assignments eg flaps.

 

I haven't had a chance to look at the lua file yet.

 

RBG

 

If you have the entries but they are not assignable then you're probably missing the entries in the lua file. If that's the case you can easily fix it by adding the correct entries into your file.

[Captain Orso]

I'm having a similar issue.

When I look at the above screen there are no keyboard or joystick button assignments (it's blank) and what's more, I can't make any changes????

 

I can quite happily change non-weapon assignments eg flaps.

 

I haven't had a chance to look at the lua file yet.

 

RBG

 

"I can't make any changes", can you describe in better detail what you mean.

[Captain Orso]

Thats true.

Categories like K-14 and stick are kompletly missing.

Sorry, the attached screenshots features only german settings, but You can clearly see, that there is no K-14 and no "Waffen" (Weapons)...

 

 

Also the Rocket Control Panel category is missing.

 

Just out of curiosity, could you upload your file: 'c:\Program Files\Eagle Dynamics\DCS World\Mods\aircraft\P-51D\Input\P-51D\keyboard\default.lua'?

[KeyGirl]

OK! :)

After repair, deleting, renew the BETA, etc. the problem is still here.

The profiles for simple=einfach and simulation=sim are reversed. This also happens with a completely new installation of DCS-BETA.

 

Inform the Bug-Crew?

[Captain Orso]

Good catch!! :thumbup: But I don't think the Sim and 'Einfach' settings are exchanged, but the Germany P-51D Sim default settings is simply wrong.

 

If I look at the English P-51D Game settings, I have the K-14, Stick, and Rocket Control Panel categories plus the Targeting category, which I'd never seen before, because I never use P-51D Game.

[Blooddawn1942]

I attached the default lua. Sorry for beeing late. ;)

default.lua

[Captain Orso]

I've compared the default.lua file you uploaded with mine and they are identical. So the cause must be elsewhere.

[Celestiale]

I have the same problem as Blooddawn. Really disappointed, can't use my P51 this way...

[derelor]

http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=155218