What does the SimAppPro do anyways?

[Jyge]

I have no idea how to get started with that thing. Well, of course, I am trying to create a profile for a new aircraft. I have Gazelle, and in SimAppPro I can actually see SA342, SA342L SA342Minigun and SA342Mistral, but somehow when I made keybindings for SA342 Pilot and CoPilot and when I try to do "Create from Game" SimAppPro complains that it can''t find anything.

What does it do anyways? I have now mapped some buttons and the axis in the settings and I even saved different configurations for buttons and so on, separately for Joystick and Throttle. Now since the mapping is there in the game, for buttons and stuff - what do I need the SimAppPro for? I guess it is something about sharing and caring but that's it? Now If I can not see the correct aircraft what can I do? (I can see that Mi-24P has Pilot and Gunner and so on, but not actually SA342...I think those profiles exist from the time before Gazelle got updated. 

[MustangSally]

Simappro...

Allows for proper calibration

Syncs lights, readouts and various switches positions on particular aircraft.

Allows you to download profiles for controls if you're too lazy to set them up yourself in game. You can however create your own.

Bit of advice....bind all controls in game and back up the config.

[Jyge]

Yes, well, I am not really interested in profiles from someone else. I have never really been able to keep myself from doing my own adaptations.

Coming from Thrustmaster and Target, the first impression is that the software side from WinWing is seriously limited. The stick is good, excellent even...

[Phantom711]

@Jyge

Yes, SimAppPro is not like Target.

Like Mustang already said, I also always just bind my controls in DCS.

But you need SimApp to calibrate the Axes at least. On the throttle quadrant you can also configure some control inputs to either act like a button or an axis for example. SimApp also controls the backlighting of your WW devices and can be synchronized with DCS. It also synchronizes what is shown on the UFC or ICP if you own those. 
If you only own the stick then yeah…SimApp doesn‘t do that much, if anything, after calibration.

Edited November 30, 2024 by Phantom711

[MustangSally]

On 11/30/2024 at 8:36 AM, Jyge said:

Yes, well, I am not really interested in profiles from someone else. I have never really been able to keep myself from doing my own adaptations.

Coming from Thrustmaster and Target, the first impression is that the software side from WinWing is seriously limited. The stick is good, excellent even...

Simappro is not designed to be anything like Target

[_Hoss]

On 11/30/2024 at 2:51 PM, MustangSally said:

Simappro is not designed to be anything like Target

Yep..... that's why I used TARGET when all I had was TMWH devices. But I have a mix of TM, WW, BH, K51, On your 12, and ffgg controller's, so I use a third party programmer now. Joy2key at first, but now I only use RSMapper when I need to emulate a keystroke, or build a macro of keystrokes. I see all of my devices on the gui, I can make multiple profiles, switch between profiles. Don't like Joystick Gremlin or anything else requiring vjoy. 

My dilemma

the ffgg AH-64 keypad is not in the pic. 

Good luck finding one you find user friendly.