Ok now this may be a dumb question, however I have been wondering about this, especially since getting my new controllers installed and set up yesterday.

 

In the standard.xml file, there are specific axis settings - the one I will focus on for this topic, the null zone. I presume the null zone to be like a dead zone, where there is a small dead zone say around the joystick x and y axis center. Currently, and I think this may have been default setting, my null zone for these in my standard.xml file is .100000.

Also same for my rudder axis.

 

Now this new hardware I setup, I also defined specific dead zones, in the hardware's drivers, along with non linear response curves, ie less sensitive around neutral, more sensitive toward the extremes.

 

So that has led me to wonder, how do these two different settings interact with each other, one set in the controller's section of the standard.xml file, the other in the drivers for the hardware? In other words, let's say the deadzone I set for my Y axis in the drivers, is larger than the null zone set in the standard.xml file - will the one set in the drivers be accurately applied? What if it is smaller than what is set in the xml file?

 

Or do I just wonder about strange stuff??

 

Just curious, thanks.

No idea, really. You could do some tests, carefully watching rudder deflection or something, to see if you get different results based on having one or both sets of tweaks enabled.

Yeah no idea here either , I guess I could do some careful testing - as long as it is working ok for me I guess I will just leave well enough alone. Just something I have wondered about off and on.

 

Thanks,