radar elevation dial

[DayGlow]

I'm setting up my HOTAS and came across the fact that even though this is a dial in the plane, there is no analogue axis to map to it. I've got 2 rotaries on my X-65 and there are 3 dials on the real radar stick: Scan range, gain dial, and elevation dial, but only the gain is an axis.

 

between the 2 rotaries and mouse wheel on the throttle, I could map all three to dials, but since they aren't axises in the game I can't without creating a custom profile for the throttle just for the Viggen, which I like to avoid.

[razorseal]

I'm surprised this doesn't get much attention... Not even a reply on the ones I resurfaced.

 

How is everyone else doing it? i don't even know where I'm aiming the radar... just a random guess which isn't good enough.

[Palten]

I'm using the POV-button on the throttle (TM Warthog HOTAS). Left/right to set radar range and up/down to change radar antenna elevation. Don't know if that helps you at all but still :)

[Kozality]

Skyracer just said in an earlier thread that having the weapon dial to "IR" or "AKAN" should give you the elevation indicator at the top of the radar scope. I haven't gotten this mode much, so I'll validate when I get home.

 

 

Agreed that it is confusing though. IMO knowing which mode (terrain avoidance or normal) and elevation (steerable even outside of IR and AKAN modes) is all but impossible to me for determine outside of guesswork. It may be that the Viggen just didn't have those indicators. But given that the radar returns in 2.5 are still a little iffy (as I understand, trees still muck with it quite a bit), I often can't tell the two modes apart.

 

 

 

I'd recommend switching to AKAN to get the elevation indicator, then back to your preferred weapon in order to center the radar, unless someone knows of a "Centering" keybind.

[razorseal]

Skyracer just said in an earlier thread that having the weapon dial to "IR" or "AKAN" should give you the elevation indicator at the top of the radar scope. I haven't gotten this mode much, so I'll validate when I get home.

 

 

Agreed that it is confusing though. IMO knowing which mode (terrain avoidance or normal) and elevation (steerable even outside of IR and AKAN modes) is all but impossible to me for determine outside of guesswork. It may be that the Viggen just didn't have those indicators. But given that the radar returns in 2.5 are still a little iffy (as I understand, trees still muck with it quite a bit), I often can't tell the two modes apart.

 

 

 

I'd recommend switching to AKAN to get the elevation indicator, then back to your preferred weapon in order to center the radar, unless someone knows of a "Centering" keybind.

 

 

Introducing rotary axis for this will make things easier to grasp.

 

 

I do wonder what the actual radar in the Viggen (our version) looked like. I'm very curious.

[River]

The manual clearly says that both radar elevation and gain are dials with a center detent. I got two of those dials on my throttle, middle detent included. Why can't we have axis mappings for radar elevation too HB?

[m4ti140]

Going to bring this up again, since it doesn't seem to have been noticed by the devs, no tag - radar elevation, as it's modeled, is completely unusable, since there's no way to center it. This is like the polar opposite of how F-14 is done, in the F-14 we have multiple redundant axes for the same functions to match everyone's hardware. And here? Here it doesn't even match the real functionality, which happens to be available in most mid-range hardware, we don't even have a "reset elevation" button.

[Machalot]

Am I dreaming? I am pretty sure I have radar elevation mapped to a rotary axis on my throttle. Can you guys double check your binding options?