Rubberduck Posted November 17, 2012 Posted November 17, 2012 Guys the five LED's below the friction wheel can be turned on or off, can you use them/program them for an indication or something within the sim? If so what do you use them for? Best Regards Nigel AKA Rubberduck My Dad- Always check for paper before sitting down....:music_whistling: Win7 64bBit,Intel® Core i7x4-3820 (3.6GHz), ASUS® SABERTOOTH X79, INTEL CERTIFIED LIQUID COOLING 16GB DDR3 2400MHz, NVIDIA GeFORCE GTX 680 4GB, 240GB INTEL® 520 SERIES SSD, 2TB WD CAVIAR BLACK BLU-RAY ROM DRIVE, CORSAIR 750W ENTHUSIAST SERIES, AeroCool Touch 2000 LCD Touch Screen 4 Fan Controller Creative Sound Blaster® X-Fi™ Xtreme Audio, Hotas WH, Saitek Pro-Flight Pedals & Cougar MFD's
JesseJames38 Posted November 17, 2012 Posted November 17, 2012 you can set them up to turn on and off in the target software. if you set up the target software for other games by moving the toggle switches the lights will come on and off. Personly i have no use for it as i dont use the target software. Jesse
Cyb0rg Posted November 17, 2012 Posted November 17, 2012 I don't use target too. Wish we could turn off the leds. :( [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] Asteroids ____________________________________________ Update this :D
dburne Posted November 17, 2012 Posted November 17, 2012 (edited) Do you have the Target software installed? You don't have to run a target profile to turn the led's off, just launch the software and go in and disable the led's, close the target software , and they will remain off until you go back in and turn them on again. Edited November 17, 2012 by dburne Don B EVGA Z390 Dark MB | i9 9900k CPU @ 5.1 GHz | Gigabyte 4090 OC | 64 GB Corsair Vengeance 3200 MHz CL16 | Corsair H150i Pro Cooler |Virpil CM3 Stick w/ Alpha Prime Grip 200mm ext| Virpil CM3 Throttle | VPC Rotor TCS Base w/ Alpha-L Grip| Point Control V2|Varjo Aero|
Rubberduck Posted November 17, 2012 Author Posted November 17, 2012 And you can change the intensity of the LED's too through TARGET. Just wondered if anyone used them for anything, it would appear not lol Best Regards Nigel AKA Rubberduck My Dad- Always check for paper before sitting down....:music_whistling: Win7 64bBit,Intel® Core i7x4-3820 (3.6GHz), ASUS® SABERTOOTH X79, INTEL CERTIFIED LIQUID COOLING 16GB DDR3 2400MHz, NVIDIA GeFORCE GTX 680 4GB, 240GB INTEL® 520 SERIES SSD, 2TB WD CAVIAR BLACK BLU-RAY ROM DRIVE, CORSAIR 750W ENTHUSIAST SERIES, AeroCool Touch 2000 LCD Touch Screen 4 Fan Controller Creative Sound Blaster® X-Fi™ Xtreme Audio, Hotas WH, Saitek Pro-Flight Pedals & Cougar MFD's
Cyb0rg Posted November 17, 2012 Posted November 17, 2012 (edited) Do you have the Target software installed? You don't have to run a target profile to turn the led's off, just launch the software and go in and disable the led's, close the target software , and they will remain off until you go back in and turn them on again. Indeed. To turn the lights off one have to : 1. install the software and launch the software 2. go in and disable the led's 3. close the target software 4. uninstall the software and they will remain off UNTIL you restart the PC. :cry: Edited November 17, 2012 by Cyb0rg [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] Asteroids ____________________________________________ Update this :D
Harzach Posted November 17, 2012 Posted November 17, 2012 Indeed. To turn the lights off one have to : 1. install the software and launch the software 2. go in and disable the led's 3. close the target software 4. uninstall the software and they will remain off UNTIL you restart the PC. :cry: So don't uninstall TARGET. The Thrustmaster FAST service uses no CPU time and @4Mb RAM. Practically invisible.
Cyb0rg Posted November 17, 2012 Posted November 17, 2012 So don't uninstall TARGET. The Thrustmaster FAST service uses no CPU time and @4Mb RAM. Practically invisible. Found a way to turn off the lights. Actually disables all of it. I have now 2 batch files in my desktop on.bat and off.bat for enable and disable the respective root usb. [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] Asteroids ____________________________________________ Update this :D
Arctic Posted November 18, 2012 Posted November 18, 2012 Isnt it possible to indicate something out of the Sim with these 5 Led's? Like Gear status or Speedbrake or something...? That would be great!
Rubberduck Posted November 18, 2012 Author Posted November 18, 2012 Thank you arctic, thats what I was meaning. I was actually thinking of speedbrake, would be really handy if you could use all five as 20% lights, coming on progressivley as the speedbrake extends... Best Regards Nigel AKA Rubberduck My Dad- Always check for paper before sitting down....:music_whistling: Win7 64bBit,Intel® Core i7x4-3820 (3.6GHz), ASUS® SABERTOOTH X79, INTEL CERTIFIED LIQUID COOLING 16GB DDR3 2400MHz, NVIDIA GeFORCE GTX 680 4GB, 240GB INTEL® 520 SERIES SSD, 2TB WD CAVIAR BLACK BLU-RAY ROM DRIVE, CORSAIR 750W ENTHUSIAST SERIES, AeroCool Touch 2000 LCD Touch Screen 4 Fan Controller Creative Sound Blaster® X-Fi™ Xtreme Audio, Hotas WH, Saitek Pro-Flight Pedals & Cougar MFD's
Mouse Posted November 18, 2012 Posted November 18, 2012 Whoa whoa whoa. You're telling me those 5 white dots below and to the right of the friction wheel are LEDs? Mine aren't lit up. They've never been lit up... ever... and I've never installed TARGET.
Arctic Posted November 18, 2012 Posted November 18, 2012 Yep, these white dots are LED's. And until now they're useless! :( You can turn them on and off with the Target software... but why should i do that^^... Speedbrake indication every 20% would be perfect :thumbup:
Rubberduck Posted November 18, 2012 Author Posted November 18, 2012 Whoa whoa whoa. You're telling me those 5 white dots below and to the right of the friction wheel are LEDs? Mine aren't lit up. They've never been lit up... ever... and I've never installed TARGET. YEP! I am going to have a look see if anything can be done in target..... Best Regards Nigel AKA Rubberduck My Dad- Always check for paper before sitting down....:music_whistling: Win7 64bBit,Intel® Core i7x4-3820 (3.6GHz), ASUS® SABERTOOTH X79, INTEL CERTIFIED LIQUID COOLING 16GB DDR3 2400MHz, NVIDIA GeFORCE GTX 680 4GB, 240GB INTEL® 520 SERIES SSD, 2TB WD CAVIAR BLACK BLU-RAY ROM DRIVE, CORSAIR 750W ENTHUSIAST SERIES, AeroCool Touch 2000 LCD Touch Screen 4 Fan Controller Creative Sound Blaster® X-Fi™ Xtreme Audio, Hotas WH, Saitek Pro-Flight Pedals & Cougar MFD's
Rubberduck Posted November 18, 2012 Author Posted November 18, 2012 Well looks like its possible through target but its very confusing and when you use target you have to use it for all commands and it loses the plug and plug function within DCS, looks like a long term project to lkearn target and write a full script lol. Best Regards Nigel AKA Rubberduck My Dad- Always check for paper before sitting down....:music_whistling: Win7 64bBit,Intel® Core i7x4-3820 (3.6GHz), ASUS® SABERTOOTH X79, INTEL CERTIFIED LIQUID COOLING 16GB DDR3 2400MHz, NVIDIA GeFORCE GTX 680 4GB, 240GB INTEL® 520 SERIES SSD, 2TB WD CAVIAR BLACK BLU-RAY ROM DRIVE, CORSAIR 750W ENTHUSIAST SERIES, AeroCool Touch 2000 LCD Touch Screen 4 Fan Controller Creative Sound Blaster® X-Fi™ Xtreme Audio, Hotas WH, Saitek Pro-Flight Pedals & Cougar MFD's
dburne Posted November 18, 2012 Posted November 18, 2012 Well looks like its possible through target but its very confusing and when you use target you have to use it for all commands and it loses the plug and plug function within DCS, looks like a long term project to lkearn target and write a full script lol. Learning Target is really not all that bad, I came from the Cougar with the Foxy software, and Target is certainly very different from that. Of course for A-10C I do not use Target as it is plug and play, but I have written profiles for some of my other flight sims. I use the GUI under advanced programming, and it is not too hard to get the hang of. I started off reading and using the Target manual for reference, until I became comfortable with using it. Don B EVGA Z390 Dark MB | i9 9900k CPU @ 5.1 GHz | Gigabyte 4090 OC | 64 GB Corsair Vengeance 3200 MHz CL16 | Corsair H150i Pro Cooler |Virpil CM3 Stick w/ Alpha Prime Grip 200mm ext| Virpil CM3 Throttle | VPC Rotor TCS Base w/ Alpha-L Grip| Point Control V2|Varjo Aero|
frogsalegs Posted November 19, 2012 Posted November 19, 2012 I use target script - and use the leds Using target software triples the number of buttons you can use - so there is less reaching over to the keyboard
GregP Posted November 19, 2012 Posted November 19, 2012 Yeah, I too am at a loss for why people are so opposed to TARGET. I too came from Foxy and so learning TARGET was a fairly painless transition. Up until a few days ago every sim profile I created was in TARGET. It was only this past weekend when I decided to give a try to setting up my profiles entirely within DCS and not relying on TARGET at all, thus making switching between aircraft so much simpler. To my surprise, within DCS's UI I can recreate about 95% of what I had in TARGET. The big drawbacks, in my view, are the more complicated commands in TARGET that you simply cannot recreate within the DCS UI, things like CHAIN (chaining a bunch of commands to occur in a row with just one button press) and TEMPO (short press of a button generates one command, long press generates another). Anyway, back to the topic at hand -- I too didn't realize that those five white dots were LEDs! I was always wondering what in the heck people were talking about when they discussed turning LEDs on and off. :)
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