Dial Speed Configuration

[Captain Orso]

I'm using VR, so I try to configure as much as possible to TM HOTAS buttons.

 

There are a lot of dial like controls in cockpits, which when assigned to a HOTAS button often speed through a progression making it very difficult to make precise setting, or in some cases progress very slowly.

 

For example, in the P-51D adjusting the gyro compass progresses very quickly so that it is very difficult to adjust exactly without having to use the mouse.

 

On the other hand in the Spitfire when adjusting the elevator trim for take-off it takes for ever to get where you want be set. During flight it's good that the progression is so slow, because otherwise it would be impossible to trim, but it's frustrating to not be able to turn the dial faster when necessary.

 

We need two controls for dial-like devices, each with a configurable speed, like between 1 and 10.

 

For example we could have one control for fast compass heading changes, if you have to dial in a large change, and one for fine settings for the fine setting. Then the virtual pilot could assign, for example, using a modifier and a button to adjust the compass up or down quickly and then the same button without the modifier to make the fine adjustment.

 

The speed setting would allow the VP to configure for his own needs for quick and slow adjustments.

 

Some of this can be manually configured in the default.lua for the controller, but some cannot--like the Spitfire elevator trim-- which can't be tickled to turn faster.

 

On top of that, most VP's have no idea how to edit the default.lua to do this. They really need this to be configurable in the setting