How to decrease rudder trim speed?

[Lixma 06]

The elevator and aileron are fine but the rudder is much too fast for me. I guess they've coded it this way to quickly trim out the huge torque when you go flat out.

Is there an .lua edit that will dial it back a touch?

[brucewhf]

There's a post describing how to decrese trim sensitivity, by modifying a .lua script. You can give a search.

[_Hoss]

Wow, thanks brucewhf...................  LOL

[Mud]

Modify the following file:
Mods\aircraft\P-47D-30\Input\P-47D-30\joystick\default.lua

I did it myself as a mod which I enable and disable using ovgme.

Look for the lines I added with "slow".  I did only do my own for pitch and roll though.  But it should be clear enough

 

-- Port Wall - Trim Control Box ------------------------------------------------------------
-- Aileron Trim Wheel
{                                                           pressed = device_commands.Button_2, cockpit_device_id = devices.CONTROLS, value_pressed = -1.0, name = _('Trim Aileron Right'),     category = _('Flight Control')},
{                                                           pressed = device_commands.Button_2, cockpit_device_id = devices.CONTROLS, value_pressed = 1.0,  name = _('Trim Aileron Left'),      category = _('Flight Control')},
{                                                           pressed = device_commands.Button_2, cockpit_device_id = devices.CONTROLS, value_pressed = -0.5, name = _('Trim Aileron Right Slow'),     category = _('Flight Control')},
{                                                           pressed = device_commands.Button_2, cockpit_device_id = devices.CONTROLS, value_pressed = 0.5,  name = _('Trim Aileron Left Slow'),      category = _('Flight Control')},
-- Elevator Trim Wheel
{                                                           pressed = device_commands.Button_5, cockpit_device_id = devices.CONTROLS, value_pressed = -1.0, name = _('Trim Elevator Up'),       category = _('Flight Control')},
{                                                           pressed = device_commands.Button_5, cockpit_device_id = devices.CONTROLS, value_pressed = 1.0,  name = _('Trim Elevator Down'),     category = _('Flight Control')},
{                                                           pressed = device_commands.Button_5, cockpit_device_id = devices.CONTROLS, value_pressed = -0.5, name = _('Trim Elevator Up Slow'),       category = _('Flight Control')},
{                                                           pressed = device_commands.Button_5, cockpit_device_id = devices.CONTROLS, value_pressed = 0.5,  name = _('Trim Elevator Down Slow'),     category = _('Flight Control')},
-- Rudder Trim Wheel
{                                                           pressed = device_commands.Button_8, cockpit_device_id = devices.CONTROLS, value_pressed = -1.0, name = _('Trim Rudder Left'),       category = _('Flight Control')},
{                                                           pressed = device_commands.Button_8, cockpit_device_id = devices.CONTROLS, value_pressed = 1.0,  name = _('Trim Rudder Right'),      category = _('Flight Control')},
-- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Br,

Mud

[Lixma 06]

Brilliant - thnx, Mud.

-- Rudder Trim Wheel
{                                                           pressed = device_commands.Button_8, cockpit_device_id = devices.CONTROLS, value_pressed = -1.0, name = _('Trim Rudder Left'),       category = _('Flight Control')},
{                                                           pressed = device_commands.Button_8, cockpit_device_id = devices.CONTROLS, value_pressed = 1.0,  name = _('Trim Rudder Right'),      category = _('Flight Control')},
{                                                           pressed = device_commands.Button_8, cockpit_device_id = devices.CONTROLS, value_pressed = -0.5, name = _('Trim Rudder Left Slow'),       category = _('Flight Control')},
{                                                           pressed = device_commands.Button_8, cockpit_device_id = devices.CONTROLS, value_pressed = 0.5,  name = _('Trim Rudder Right Slow'),      category = _('Flight Control')},

Passes IC too.

[Mud]

My pleasure.  Credit to @scoobie who helped me with this some time ago.
You can play around with the 0.5 number as you like to decrease or increase the increments I reckon.

[Brigg]

this is how i do it. reduce the values to 0.0125 and it makes it really nice with the warthog 

https://i.imgur.com/7NS9fLC.png

Edited February 3, 2022 by Brigg

[brucewhf]

On 2/3/2022 at 11:44 PM, Mud said:

Modify the following file:
Mods\aircraft\P-47D-30\Input\P-47D-30\joystick\default.lua

I did it myself as a mod which I enable and disable using ovgme.

Look for the lines I added with "slow".  I did only do my own for pitch and roll though.  But it should be clear enough

 

-- Port Wall - Trim Control Box ------------------------------------------------------------
-- Aileron Trim Wheel
{                                                           pressed = device_commands.Button_2, cockpit_device_id = devices.CONTROLS, value_pressed = -1.0, name = _('Trim Aileron Right'),     category = _('Flight Control')},
{                                                           pressed = device_commands.Button_2, cockpit_device_id = devices.CONTROLS, value_pressed = 1.0,  name = _('Trim Aileron Left'),      category = _('Flight Control')},
{                                                           pressed = device_commands.Button_2, cockpit_device_id = devices.CONTROLS, value_pressed = -0.5, name = _('Trim Aileron Right Slow'),     category = _('Flight Control')},
{                                                           pressed = device_commands.Button_2, cockpit_device_id = devices.CONTROLS, value_pressed = 0.5,  name = _('Trim Aileron Left Slow'),      category = _('Flight Control')},
-- Elevator Trim Wheel
{                                                           pressed = device_commands.Button_5, cockpit_device_id = devices.CONTROLS, value_pressed = -1.0, name = _('Trim Elevator Up'),       category = _('Flight Control')},
{                                                           pressed = device_commands.Button_5, cockpit_device_id = devices.CONTROLS, value_pressed = 1.0,  name = _('Trim Elevator Down'),     category = _('Flight Control')},
{                                                           pressed = device_commands.Button_5, cockpit_device_id = devices.CONTROLS, value_pressed = -0.5, name = _('Trim Elevator Up Slow'),       category = _('Flight Control')},
{                                                           pressed = device_commands.Button_5, cockpit_device_id = devices.CONTROLS, value_pressed = 0.5,  name = _('Trim Elevator Down Slow'),     category = _('Flight Control')},
-- Rudder Trim Wheel
{                                                           pressed = device_commands.Button_8, cockpit_device_id = devices.CONTROLS, value_pressed = -1.0, name = _('Trim Rudder Left'),       category = _('Flight Control')},
{                                                           pressed = device_commands.Button_8, cockpit_device_id = devices.CONTROLS, value_pressed = 1.0,  name = _('Trim Rudder Right'),      category = _('Flight Control')},
-- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Br,

Mud

One tip to remind, if you change the value directly instead of adding one, you must modify another keyboard lua scrpit as well, otherwise the trim will stop working

Edited February 6, 2022 by brucewhf

[LeCuvier]

On 2/6/2022 at 11:33 AM, brucewhf said:

One tip to remind, if you change the value directly instead of adding one, you must modify another keyboard lua scrpit as well, otherwise the trim will stop working

 

No, you will just get red or orange lines in Options/Controls as a warning that you have bindings with different functionality but same name.
But it's certainly better practice to add new "slow" bindings. And make sure the slow bindings names are different from the names of the original bindings.