TIP: Never use mouse or trackball in DCS / VR again ! Control mouse with joystick

[winghunter]

Sadly DCS does not allow to assign any joystick axis to control the mouse cursor directly. But there is a little software that does the trick.

If you have i.e. a TM 16000 throttle, you can use the little analog stick for moving the mouse, and its click to emulate a mouse left click. This allows you to navigate all DCS menus and also interact with cockpit instruments.

I typically place the mouse cursor 20° downwards of center of view. This allows me to look at all cockpit controls and engage them with a joystick button. I can move the mouse cursor with the throttle analog stick.

You need https://joytokey.net/en/download

This are my settings. Now you can control everything in DCS without ever touching the mouse. Also assigned the rudder pedals of the trottle to mouse scroll as I have no use for them.

In options, you should change the threshold for your axis down to 1% or so, as the default threshold has a very high dead zone of 10%.

Edited December 20, 2021 by winghunter

[Baldrick33]

I also use Joy2key as you describe with a rotary on a button box so I can move the mouse cursor up and down if needed to save my neck! Another rotary is used for mouse wheel.

Plus I have a button mapped on my stick to recentre the mouse (again using Joy2Key - absolute mouse position 50:50), this could also be used to drop the mouse down slightly by changing the Y value