F-16C Viper Gamepad Bindings Guide

[Tuuvas]

With all the recent and upcoming Viper changes, I thought it would be good to put together a gamepad tutorial for it.  This video goes over both setting up bindings as well as basic F-16 usage.

 

Edited January 23, 2022 by Tuuvas

[AngryViper.101]

Thank you, this is a good basic setup

I included additional mappings for

1. CMS LEFT

2. Show Indicators

3. Active Pause

4. Hud Symbology Knob

5. Chaff / Flare Dispense 

 

Do you know if we can create a throttle slider using one of the axis on the controller, so that it does not jump back to center position when using an axis on the controller?

 

thank you

[Tuuvas]

On 1/17/2022 at 11:08 PM, warford said:

Thank you, this is a good basic setup

I included additional mappings for

1. CMS LEFT

2. Show Indicators

3. Active Pause

4. Hud Symbology Knob

5. Chaff / Flare Dispense 

 

Do you know if we can create a throttle slider using one of the axis on the controller, so that it does not jump back to center position when using an axis on the controller?

 

thank you

Unfortunately there's no way to introduce relative axis control to DCS axes.  The only reason I could get it working for camera look is because I'm actually controlling the mouse and not the in-game bound "Camera Horizontal/Vertical" controls.  Hopefully one day ED will expand the controls menu to better support limited controllers like console gamepads

[AngryViper.101]

yes, i also inspected the base_keyboard_binding.lua script and the problem - as far a i understand is this:

for example Num+ is bound to a button pressed and button up command. so if you do not press and release the button extremely quickly we cannot simulate smooth throttle control via keyboard or controller button press ... 

 

pressed = iCommandThrottleIncrease,      

up = iCommandThrottleStop,  

 

there must be another implementation / code that one can hook pressed = ... to to increase / decrease throttle only 1 / 100th