mapping a thrustmaster button to a keyboard key

[skypickle]

is there anyway to do this in DCS without using the thrustmaster TARGET software?

[Sokol1_br]

No, the game don't have a 'keyboard emulator' embed for do this. :)

 

Are - easy to use, but more simple; alternatives to TARGET like JoyToKey.

[shu77]

Use Target, its easy then. There are plenty of examples of scripts. If you really dont like target try joystick gremlin

[Weegie]

TARGET has a lot of haters and it also take up some resource and reduces Dx button count. However it's pretty powerful and Dx count can be taken up to 120Dx with this

 

https://forums.eagle.ru/forum/english/dcs-world-topics/input-and-output/170969-hack-for-tm-warthog-with-120-programmable-dx-buttons?t=171098

 

I think it's a great piece of software and (for me anyway) much more stable than JoyStick Gremlin and all the other emulators out there.

 

The Editor which is where the real power lies needs a little bit of research though, but once you understand the concepts it's really not so hard at all.

 

Just my experience, it seems very much a "Marmite" product

[Bailey]

I use voiceattack. It features an easy to understand way of pressing keybinds with a hotas.

[Weegie]

I use voiceattack. It features an easy to understand way of pressing keybinds with a hotas.

 

I agree Bailey I use TARGET and Voice Attack, both are great. Voice Attack is great value and can do a lot more than just send Voice Commands, mystifies me a bit why others don't use more of its capabilities

[skypickle]

Thank you for your replies. I'll try joy to key. Don't know about using voice attack. I fly with a bunch of other pilots and we chat using discord. I think they'd get annoyed if I was always talking to my plane. The main reason I need a keybind is because TrackIR keeps 'shifting' its center as my headset is sometimes jostled a little out of position now and then. So I've mapped the 'recenter key' for trackIR to button 3 on the thrustmaster T16000M and that is the only reason i need the TARGET software. DCS does such a great job of mapping, it even allows me to set a button on the thrustmaster throttle as a modifier key.

 

[Ant0ine]

In the Track IR software you can map DX button (Your button 3 directly for exemple). So.. There is no need to use any software to remap a Direct X button to the Track Recenter key shortcut.

 

Voice Attack can take voice as input obviously, but also direct X button, keyboard and mouse.

[Weegie]

I have my profiles in VA added to Vaicom and use the same keypad presses that opens comms to Vaicom to mute Discord (& Teamspeak) so as I either call Discord or VA/Vaicom but never both at the one time

[skypickle]

In the Track IR software you can map DX button (Your button 3 directly for exemple). So.. There is no need to use any software to remap a Direct X button to the Track Recenter key shortcut.

 

Voice Attack can take voice as input obviously, but also direct X button, keyboard and mouse.

 

THANK YOU! never realized trackIR could do this.