BlacleyCole Posted January 17, 2018 Posted January 17, 2018 Do to the limit of buttons I have available on my cyclic and collective I was wondering if it was possible to create a macro in dcs control editor that would work similar to this: Press button joy_1 this keys in [LshftR] plus [LshftI] which put the phase switch to AC and invertor Off. I know they have automated startup and shutdown but I really would like to follow the checklist at least panel by panel BlackeyCole 20years usaf XP-11. Dcs 2.5OB Acer predator laptop/ i7 7720, 2.4ghz, 32 gb ddr4 ram, 500gb ssd,1tb hdd,nvidia 1080 8gb vram New FlightSim Blog at https://blackeysblog.wordpress.com. Go visit it and leave me feedback and or comments so I can make it better. A new post every Friday.
Chic Posted January 17, 2018 Posted January 17, 2018 (edited) VoiceAttack. Will allow you to bind a controller button to any, and as many, commands you want. Edited January 17, 2018 by Chic A Co, 229th AHB, 1st Cav Div ASUS Prime Z370-A MB, Intel Core i7 8700K 5.0GHz OC'd, RTX 3090, 32GB DDR4, 1TB SSD, Win 10 Samsung 65" 4K Curved Display (Oculus Rift occaisionally), Track IR5, VoiceAttack, Baur's BRD-N Cyclic base/Virpil T-50CM Grip, UH-1h Collective by Microhelis & OE-XAM Pedals. JetSeat & SimShaker for Aviators. JUST CHOPPERS
Cibit Posted January 17, 2018 Posted January 17, 2018 I use a mouse :) i5 8600k@5.2Ghz, Asus Prime A Z370, 32Gb DDR4 3000, GTX1080 SC, Oculus Rift CV1, Modded TM Warthog Modded X52 Collective, Jetseat, W10 Pro 64 [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] Adding JTAC Guide //My Vid's//229th AHB
cthulhu68 Posted January 17, 2018 Posted January 17, 2018 You can set anything up to be a modifier or switch. I use R. Control on keybd as modifier to add a second layer of controls for seldom used or use once actions.
Holton181 Posted January 17, 2018 Posted January 17, 2018 Or download and use JoyToKey. Can do exactly what you asking for. It can have a somewhat steep learning curve though. Helicopters and Viggen DCS 1.5.7 and OpenBeta Win7 Pro 64bit i7-3820 3.60GHz P9X79 Pro 32GB GTX 670 2GB VG278H + a Dell PFT Lynx TrackIR 5
Bearfoot Posted January 17, 2018 Posted January 17, 2018 I use a mouse :) +1. We have a clickable pit --- indulge in it! I used to try to map everything to my HOTAS (and with the X-55 I had in those days, availability of buttons/switches was not a problem). But I realized that this just complicated things, making it LESS ergonomic simply because it cluttered my headspace with keeping track of what one thing did in one a/c vs. another. E.g., POV hat up = left engine fuel cross feed in Mi-8 and activate the positive power coupling in the X-Wing. Contrived/fake example, but you get the idea. Not only bad for ergonomics, but terrible for immersion! So, I gave that all up, and now only have on my HOTAS what's on the a/c's HOTAS (and sometimes not even all that). For everything else: I use the mouse and click on the switch. HUGE CAVEAT: I use VR. When I used TrackIR, I found MANY of the switches on MOST of the modules extremely difficult or, at the very least, very, very, very irritating/frustrating to reach. In that case, I just used the key commands (mapping them to keys if needed). A little less satisfying immersion wise, but it got the job done with much less frustration. VoiceAttack is, of course, the other solution as suggested here. It's nice, clean, immersive, and works VERY well, plus has much better immersion than either the keyboard or even mapping to a HOTAS (and maybe even more than clicking the switch in cases where, e.g., the startup is typically done by a flight engineer while you chillax in the pilot commander seat, like the MI-8).
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