DCS World TARGET profile for TM Cougar and Warthog + MFDs

[TWC_Alamo]

Home Fries,

 

Alamo,

Thank you for the generous donation.

 

My pleasure. You are doing some great work and giving it away to the community, so I am glad to help support your further efforts.

 

Regarding your request, I don't have VR, so what are these functions and what do they do? I imagine I should reserve two buttons or hat switch directions for left/right mouse buttons in VR, but other than that, is there anything I should know about the functions? Could I piggy back them with a TEMPO command and make them a TEMPO Long, or do they need to be instant response? Does the button need to be held during an operation such as zoom?

 

Anything you can do to help me out would be great. Feel free to PM me.

 

Great. I will PM you some ideas for VR functions based on how I am using the HTC Vive, but they are so basic they should apply for Rift users too.

 

Just putting the finishing touches on 1.66. It's been tested and some fixes and enhancements were added. I should have it out by the end of the week.

 

Fantastic! I looking forward to it and hoping there will be a profile for the Spitfire.

[Home Fries]

Version 1.66 is released. In addition to the Spitfire, v1.66 fixes a number of bugs, improves the M-2000C based on the latest avionics updates, and improves the FC3 autopilot logic (Warthog only).

[sobe]

HomeFries

Thank you for 1.66. Based on our discussion above, I attempted to modify several lines in the Mig 21 module as below-the changes are in bold.

 

MapKeyIO(&Joystick, H3U, TEMPO(USB_F1,L_CTL+USB_F10,DefTempo), DX11);

MapKeyIO(&Joystick, H3D, TEMPO(USB_F1,USB_F2,DefTempo), DX13);

if (WarthogThrottle > 0)

{

MapKeyIO(&Joystick, H3R, TEMPO(USB_F1,USB_F2,DefTempo), EXEC("MiG21_DA_Cycle(8,0);") ); //DX12);

MapKeyIO(&Joystick, H3L, TEMPO(USB_F1,L_CTL+USB_F6,DefTempo), EXEC("MiG21_DA_Cycle(-1,0);") ); //DX14);

}

else

{

MapKeyIO(&Joystick, H3R, TEMPO(USB_F1,USB_F2,DefTempo), MiG21_Radio_Ch_Incr ); //DX12);

MapKeyIO(&Joystick, H3L, TEMPO(USB_F1,L_CTL+USB_F6,DefTempo), MiG21_Radio_Ch_Decr ); //DX14);

}

I then went into the controls menu for the Mig 21 and under the column Thrustmaster combined, I applied button 30 and the appropriate direction button for H3 (I assume that is the correct procedure). I then saved the column back to my disk, and restarted. However, this did not work.

I would appreciate when you have a chance to look at what I did and comment.

[Home Fries]

sobe,

The way you have it in the code is fine. However, the reason it isn't working in-game is because you need to add the Joy_Btn30 modifier to the F1 and CTL+F6 keyboard entries in the options menu. For example, when you go to options and press F1, it should take you to the cockpit command. Then double click that cell, press F1 again, then add Joy_Btn30 as a modifier. Do the same thing for LCTL+F6 command.

 

The TARGET profile should work as advertised. It's DCS that needs to be tweaked.

[sobe]

Homefries

I guess I didn't understand that the last step was needed. I think everything is now working. See below:

 

"F1"; "JOY_BTN30 - F1"

F1 Cockpit view

"F2"; "JOY_BTN30 - F2"

F2 Aircraft view

"F6"; "JOY_BTN30 - F6"

F6 Released weapon view

 

"LCtrl - F6"; "JOY_BTN30 - LCtrl - F6"

F6 Weapon to target view

 

"LCtrl - F10"; "JOY_BTN30 - LCtrl - F10"

F10 Jump to theater map view over current point

Edited January 19, 2017 by sobe
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[MickeEinSweden]

Thank You for your work and the v166 Home Fries. Looking forward to be usung it now for the Spitfire too. I hope there will be a future version for Viggen also. Your program is a lot of help :)

[Home Fries]

Thank You for your work and the v166 Home Fries. Looking forward to be usung it now for the Spitfire too. I hope there will be a future version for Viggen also. Your program is a lot of help :)

There will be a profile for the Viggen. Take it to the bank. :thumbup:

[h.kan]

Hi

Why dont you do an installation file, something like this http://www.wikihow.com/Make-an-Installation-File

Maybee you already have answered that but I cant find anything when searching?

[Home Fries]

h.kan,

I have thought about something similar, as I use NSIS for my newer skins. I would eventually like to write a Visual Basic config program that will save your settings between versions and provide context to many of the parameters. I won't be able to get to this until the summer, though. Visual Basic is much easier and more foolproof than C++ and NSIS when it comes to parsing and substituting text, so this is preferred to the installer method, but VB and an installer are not mutually exclusive. We'll see what happens.

[Home Fries]

Ok, I know some folks are clamoring for a Viggen profile. Here's the good news: I just got a working profile and the HOTAS/MFD graphics done today. If 1.5.6 is released as a final build this week, I will do a quick compare to the 1.5.6OB to see if there are any controller changes, then update and release 1.67 of the script. If 1.5.6 remains in OB, I will release 1.67 as is. Either way, you should see the profile this week!

 

In order to make the profile compatible with both the Warthog and Cougar, I mapped the radar mode (A0,A1,A2) to the dogfight/boat switch and the fix trigger to the trigger on the joystick. The trigger safety is H2U/D, and weapons release is S2 (the pickle button). This allows both Cougar and Warthog users to seamlessly use both radar fix and weapons release simultaneously (necessary for a Maverick shot).

 

The bad news is that many of the commands are missing or bugged, which is to be expected this soon in early access. As a result, many things that are mapped (especially to MFDs) do not work properly. We just have to use the mouse in the meantime and trust that LN will fix these issues.

 

Anyway, check back on Friday afternoon.

[f4l0]

Just found your mfd backgrounds. Really cool!

Can't wait for a good looking one for the viggen...

[Home Fries]

I can't wait either. I started with the high contrast one so colorblind people can use it, and with the commands in such limbo right now it's no use putting in the time for fancy graphics.

 

EDIT: Cool dog, BTW (in your avatar). Kind of reminds me of my old White Shepherd mix (the goggles are from my lasik surgery)

 

 

Edited February 2, 2017 by Home Fries

[Home Fries]

Version 1.67 is released.  V1.67 adds the AJS-37 Viggen to the list of selectable profiles.  DCS World 1.5.6 (currently OpenBeta) is required to fly the Viggen, but the profile is otherwise fully compatible with DCS World 1.5.5.

[MickeEinSweden]

Thanks a lot for 167 and Viggen profile Home Fries :)

[h.kan]

Just looked through the AJS37 Viggen profile and as always its really good.

WHY is this thread not pinned? Its so helpfull!

[Home Fries]

WHY is this thread not pinned? Its so helpfull!

I wouldn't complain if it was. Feel free to lobby your local moderators! :D

[Cravgar]

Hi,

 

these profiles look great! I have a question though, do you still have to restart the game to switch profiles? I've always liked the idea of TARGET but have never invested the time, if you can easily switch in-game then this is a big winner!

[Home Fries]

Hi,

 

these profiles look great! I have a question though, do you still have to restart the game to switch profiles? I've always liked the idea of TARGET but have never invested the time, if you can easily switch in-game then this is a big winner!

 

Winner! Winner!

 

The beauty of this profile is that as long as you have the Cougar MFDs, you can hold down S3 and LOSB1 for 2 seconds to enter profile selection mode. You can then use the LGAIN and LSYM options to select red and blue aircraft respectively (and you choose jets, helos or warbirds depending on your boat/dogfight switch position). You can also assign modules to other OSBs for a quick selection (e.g. ROSB20 will always select the Viggen).

 

If you don't have the MFDs, it's definitely worth picking them up!

[Cravgar]

Awesome! Will be trying this out very soon!

 

 

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[Cravgar]

Hi again! I have to say that this is one awesome set of profiles.

 

I have a question around the mirage bindings, I've notice some like the battery power and jammer switches aren't working, as an Lua noob I'm not sure which file I should go in to fix these? Could you point me in the right direction?

 

 

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[Home Fries]

Hi again! I have to say that this is one awesome set of profiles.

 

I have a question around the mirage bindings, I've notice some like the battery power and jammer switches aren't working, as an Lua noob I'm not sure which file I should go in to fix these? Could you point me in the right direction?

 

Thanks for the compliment.

 

To answer your question, the Mirage is a weird bird with regards to how the battery switch is set. The RMFD bottom row (including the BRT rocker) does double duty as the INS mode selector and for the engine start panel when the parking brake is on (you must enable the brake with RCON or the APU switch on the Warthog throttle base). Only if the parking brake is on can you cycle the battery with RBRT by holding the rocker up or down for almost a second (800ms is the default value). Otherwise, RBRT cycles the INS mode. It's complicated, so I recommend reading the section on the Mirage in the User Reference.

 

I have not mapped the jammer switch; this must be activated manually. Once the jammer is set to on, the buttons on the HOTAS will toggle between standby and radiate.

 

Hope this helps.

[wingshigh.g]

PTT for VoiceAttack

 

Hi, I am trying to change the PTT Common button to activate the VoiceAttack. I have been reading through the threads but maybe I am not reading it correctly, I still can't figure out the best way to do it.

 

Could someone give me an advise on where to start? Which file should I look at? VoiceAttack manual says the button needs to be setup for Push-and-Hold. Also, it is read as button21 in VoiceAttack.

 

Thank you in advance. I apologize if this has been asked in the past and I just missed it.

[Home Fries]

There is a value in DCS World.tmc called VAC, that if enabled will key the middle mouse button for speech recognition. That said, the feature is incompatible with radio solutions like simpleradio, so you're probably better off just using the regular PTT. I'm probably going to deprecate this feature as it is.

 

If you set VoiceAttack to DX21 it should work. Depending on how VoiceAttack counts its buttons, it may be button21 (starts with button1) or button20 (starts with button0). Try Button20 and see if that works for you.

[wingshigh.g]

Thank you for the reply.

 

The VAC feature uses the dx21 button?

 

I was able to assign the button21 to VoiceAttack, but is it configured as Push and Hold button?

 

 

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[wingshigh.g]

Home Fries, got it figured out, thank you.