Mapping keystrokes to joystick buttons

[vgbaron 3,486]

Just installed a plain vanilla install of XP11. So far so good but two main issues

1) TrackIR works but it is really flaky

2) Cannot find a way to map a keystroke to a joystick button.

Any hints?

 

Thanx,

Vic

[Murmur 3,941]

I think any sim function/input can be mapped to a keystroke or to a joystick button indifferently. In any case, if you really need to map a joystick button to a specific keystroke, probably you have to use such programs as joy2key or similar.

I don't use TrackIR, but what do you mean with "flaky"?

 

[vgbaron 3,486]

Well, in P3D and FSX the motion is relatively smooth whereas in XP11 it is very jerky and the view doesn't always go where I'm looking. I'm wondering if anyone has created a profile for XP - looked a bit but found nothing.

Thanx, I'll look into joy2key.

 

Vic

[pots 10]

X-Camera freeware addon is very necessary for TrackIR usage - then you can have multiple views. Some views may have TrackIR tracking, others (like PFD view) not. Very recommended!

 

Zwyx

[vgbaron 3,486]

Thanx! This looks interesting. I've downloaded it and I'll play around this weekend.

 

Vic

[jcomm 5,886]

Hi Vic,

I can't help you much right now because I am quite away from my sim PC where XP11 is installed, but I can confirm that I successfully used x-camera with TrackIR5, although I do not like to use TrackIR with X-Plane, just as I didn't with FSX or P3D. I by far prefer to use the default camera keys ( numerical 0 to 9 ) that one can easily assign to up to nine different views, or do it through x-camera.

You can map any controller button to any function in the vast default function list available, or specifically for a given aircraft, and one can also save multiple controller profiles to use with specific aircraft or classes of aircraft ( I have one for helis, other for jet airliners and two other for muliprop reciprocating or turbo.

Welcome to XP 11 :-)

We will surely have a lot to do in it in the upcoming months :-)