Virpil joystick configuration Tutorial

[HC_Official]

Updated this as the User Interface has changed a bit

 

[dburne]

 

Nice much thanks for this!

[Lucky]

Still waiting for my joystick and base to arrive and your videos will be most helpful when I start setting everything up. Thank you.

[Paladin2005]

Is it possible to map any axis on the small thumb joystick on the Constellation Alpha?

I have not been successful so far...

[imacken]

The ministick can be mapped as axes or buttons if you define it in axis to button in the VPC software.

I have mine mapped to SCS/DMS controls in DCS.

[Paladin2005]

Thanks for the hint, i found the tutorial how to define a button to an axis.

 

But then, the X-axis only works on the left side, the Y-axis only on the top side of the mini-joystick.

How to configure it that all 4 directions work each as a button?

[imacken]

Here is how mine are configured, but there are various ways.  

After defining the buttons in Axis, then you need to bind those buttons to logical buttons for Windows to see them.

[Paladin2005]

Interesting.

They work in all 4 directions as buttons? Down, left, up, right?

Because from your screenshot it looks like 0-10% are buttons (but in which direction??) and 90-100% are other buttons (again in which direction?)

 

[imacken]

From the screenshot you can see that both axes have a button at 0-10% and at 90-100%.  That means that at left/right/up/down they show a different button.

Axis 4 - 0% is left and 100% right, and axis 3 is 0% up and 100% down.

You can see this in your Axis tab in the VPC software.

Edited February 15, 2021 by imacken

[Paladin2005]

Aah, that means the Mini-Stick is for example, from far left 0% and far right 100% on the same axis.

0-10% means then left side, 90-100% means right side.

Understand, i will try it.

 

 

Update: Works fine, thank you!

Edited February 15, 2021 by Paladin2005