How to centre mouse cursor?

[Baldrick33]

I have been using a button box rotary encoder with a push button for a mouse using VR. It works pretty well, press the button, the cursor shows up and I look around and can press a switch or rotate a knob by rotating the encoder. Pretty immersive.

 

My only issue is when I press the button to get the mouse cursor up it is most often over to the right and not centred to my view, so I have to use the mouse to drag the cursor to the centre - not so immersive.

 

Is there any way to centre the mouse cursor to where I am looking?

[Svsmokey]

Check your VR page in DCS settings .

[Chic]

I have been using a button box rotary encoder with a push button for a mouse using VR. It works pretty well, press the button, the cursor shows up and I look around and can press a switch or rotate a knob by rotating the encoder. Pretty immersive.

 

My only issue is when I press the button to get the mouse cursor up it is most often over to the right and not centred to my view, so I have to use the mouse to drag the cursor to the centre - not so immersive.

 

Is there any way to centre the mouse cursor to where I am looking?

 

If you’re using VoiceAttack, you can program the button to center the cursor, or place it anyplace you like.

[Baldrick33]

Check your VR page in DCS settings .

If I turn mouse off then I get a cursor whenever I move my head, which I don't want. The simple answer seems to be to centre the mouse as soon as I enter the cockpit, I think it is just left at the "Fly" button position bottom right. I just wondered if there was a button push to centre it.

[dburne]

Yeah I center mine when I first get into cockpit.

[Baldrick33]

If you’re using VoiceAttack, you can program the button to center the cursor, or place it anyplace you like.

Thanks. Your suggestion made me think to check if I could do it in Joy2key which I already use and it can! Under Advanced mouse settings for a button.

[_Grumpy_]

I am struggling with the same issue. I center it when I start DCS but in flight I use the F10 map etc. and it ends up off to one side or the other so when I need it again in the cockpit I need to reach to my mouse to get it back to the center. Is there some way to program a button to return it to the center of even better would be in the center Left/Right and about 1/3 up from the bottom of the view (don't need to break you neck to get to those low back switches :)

[Dovivan]

Hi Grumpy. I use for center and wakeup cursor in cockpit during VR flight voiceattack program. You can bind cursor coordinates under joystick button. I bind two diferent positions  under one button, becpuse i need "move" cursor for wakeup.

[edmuss]

On 10/2/2022 at 4:48 AM, _Grumpy_ said:

I am struggling with the same issue. I center it when I start DCS but in flight I use the F10 map etc. and it ends up off to one side or the other so when I need it again in the cockpit I need to reach to my mouse to get it back to the center. Is there some way to program a button to return it to the center of even better would be in the center Left/Right and about 1/3 up from the bottom of the view (don't need to break you neck to get to those low back switches

@Baldrick33 pointed me at joy2key to do almost this exact thing, it took a bit of jiggling but I can now slew my mouse cursor around using the warthog throttle slew + modifier.  The cursor is slaved to the headset but I can alter its resting position using the slew+modifier; mouse button controls are bound to the warthog CMS switch + modifier.

I needed to bind the slew axis + modifier in DCS to be a redundant axis (zoom commands I think I used) to stop it slewing the TGP/shkval when I moved the mouse.

[MadogPL]

If anyone is interested AND using JoystickGremlin I've made with help of chatGPT a plugin for the program to center the mouse.
I've tried many other ways of secondary programs (mousetoVjoy), powershell scripts, all failed. This one is working like a charm.

You add a plugin from a tab with +, run with the gear, set a button. Done.

center_mouse_script_JoystickGremlin.py

[firefox121]

 

[Tea-Pig]

On 6/14/2023 at 9:37 PM, MadogPL said:

If anyone is interested AND using JoystickGremlin I've made with help of chatGPT a plugin for the program to center the mouse.
I've tried many other ways of secondary programs (mousetoVjoy), powershell scripts, all failed. This one is working like a charm.

You add a plugin from a tab with +, run with the gear, set a button. Done.

center_mouse_script_JoystickGremlin.py 1016 B · 10 downloads

Pure gold. Many thanks for this. Hunting for the stupid mouse cursor has been one of the most annoying and fun-spoiling things about DCS for me and this plug in is making it at least tolerable.