New to DCS VR. Is there a way to look at switches with rift and then "click" them?

[redmantab]

Title says it all. Can I just look at switches in vr somehow and then click them without having to bind everything to hotkeys or my x52?

[metzger]

Yes but only on the modules with clickable cockpits. The free one su25t that DCS comes with is not. It is with simplified systems and no clickable swithes. The same goes for all flaming clifs aircrafts.

 

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[Insonia]

The only free clickable is TF-51.

All FC3(F15/su27/33/mig29/su25(t)/a10a) planes are not clickable.

Edited November 18, 2016 by Insonia

[minimi66]

What aircraft are you flying VR in my friend?

 

Need to know that really? The guys above have correctly identified the issue with the FC3 and free DCS modules.

 

However if you are flying most of the other titles i.e. A-10C, F-5E, M-2000C, Mig 21, Mig 15, Ka-50 etc etc etc.

 

Then either use your mouse in VR to click anything clickable in the cockpit, just like in non-VR simming? I use a Logitech trackball fixed to my sim chair so i know exactly where it is and it doesn't move around out of reach while in the Occulus.

 

Or, and this is a fairly recent addition to the DCS software build:

 

In the DCS Settings menu, from the main screen that opens when the game loads. (Look for the small white cog wheel icon at top left/centre of screen?) Next to the Module Manager icon.

 

Open Settings > VR Tab (last one on the right).

 

Un-check the box that says Use Mouse.

 

Then click on the Controls tab.

 

Select the aircraft you are flying from the left most drop down menu i.e. A-10C Sim or

A-10C Game etc.

 

Then from the drop down menu to the right of the aircraft one select UI Layer.

 

You will then see from the options that you can assign mouse buttons and some other GUI funtions to buttons on your HOTAS?

 

So you can assign a HOTAS button to left and right mouse buttons and mouse wheel if you have a rotary knob on your stick or throttle.

 

Set it up how you want. Then click OK to save changes and exit Settings.

 

Now when you're in the cockpit of the aircraft you just configured there will be a small blue cross-hair the moves with your view point in the Occulus.

 

Just look at the cockpit switch or control and press the button on your HOTAS that you mapped to your mouse functionality?

 

You're good to go!! I've used both methods but actually prefer just using my Trackball even in VR.

 

Happy flying mate!!

[Marklar]

pCars has this implemented. When you hover a cursor for 3 seconds over a particular button the game understands it as a single mouse click. It only works in menus, though. Cars don't have clickable cockpits, at least not in pCars.

[Ratcatcher]

As minimi66 describes, thats how I do it ( I actually prefer clicking by looking ) I also use a function of voiceattack that recenters the view cursor.

 

One thing also to note, as of the last build where ED have intorduced clickable menus. This function is unfortuantely seprate to the "aiming cursor" so you get the blue cross for cockpit clicking as well as a white dot which you use to click the menus. Hopefully that gets fixed soon.

[minimi66]

Also guys as i just discovered the other day if you use the method i described above and assign joystick buttons to the UI Layer in order to left and right click in the VR cockpit.

 

In my case it was left throttle button on my Warthog Throttle and the CMS (Z-Press axis) on my stick for right click.

 

Well if you do this then those 2 buttons (and i assume any others assigned to a command in the UI Layer menu, those buttons will no longer be available in ANY other DCS aircraft.

 

The only way to get them bac k is to clear them from the UI Layer menu and then re-assign them to the other profiles you want to use them with i.e Mirage, Cobra etc.

 

Worth knowing?