March 30, 20215 yr Hello everyone Sorry if this is the wrong forum, but I thought this would be the best place. So I'm playing P3DV5.1 with my PS4 controller, and since I don't have a physical throttle quadrant, I use the buttons "triangle" and "cross" to accelerate and decelerate. This isn't the most convenient option, but it works, I guess. I have a registered copy of FSUIPC, so I'm wondering if I can do the following: On the right joystick of my PS4 controller, I'd like to accelerate when I push the joystick up, and decelerate when I pull the joystick down. I don't want it to be set up as a throttle axis, since the joystick resets everytime in the center. (so I would basically be at idle thrust) Is this perhaps possible with FSUIPC, if yes, any idea how to do it? If you need any further explanation, I would happily do it. Regards
March 30, 20215 yr It's doable, but not a trivial task. About 18 months ago I wrote a Lua script that did something similar when I was trying to use an XBox Elite controller in portable ops--it moved the throttle up/down at a rate proportional to the axis displacement, so the further you pushed the thumbstick the faster the throttle moved. With the thumbstick centered it stops moving the throttle axis value. It's done by mapping the thumbstick axis to an FSUIPC offset, then iteratively reading that offset and the current throttle axis value, applying a change, and then writing the throttle value back to the sim. In this case, I used a uitility I wrote to re-map the throttle axis as a virtual throttle axis using the VJoy driver so that a couple add-ons that don't play nice with FSUIPC's throttle calibration would see it as a physical joystick. Ultimately I ditched the game controller idea for the Thrustmaster TCA joystick/throttle unit. Bob Scott | President and CEO, AVSIM Inc ATP Gulfstream II-III-IV-V Sys1 (MSFS20+24/XPlane12+11): AMD 9800X3D, water 2x240mm, MSI MPG X670E Carbon, 64GB GSkill 6000/30, nVidia RTX4090FE Alienware AW3821DW 38" 21:9 GSync, 2x4TB Crucial T705 PCIe5 + 2x2TB Samsung 990 SSD, EVGA 1000P2 PSU, 12.9" iPad Pro Thrustmaster TCA Boeing Yoke, TCA Airbus Sidestick, Twin TCA Airbus Throttle quads, PFC Cirrus Pedals, Coolermaster HAF932 case Sys2 (P3Dv5/v4): i9-13900KS, water 2x360mm, ASUS Z790 Hero, 32GB GSkill 7800MHz CAS36, ASUS RTX4090 Samsung 55" JS8500 4K TV@60Hz, 3x 2TB WD SN850X 1x 4TB Crucial P3 M.2 NVME SSD, EVGA 1600T2 PSU Fiber link to Yamaha RX-V467 Home Theater Receiver, Polk/Klipsch 6" bookshelf speakers, Polk 12" subwoofer, 12.9" iPad Pro PFC yoke/throttle quad/pedals with custom Hall sensor retrofit, Thermaltake View 71 case, Stream Deck XL button box Sys3 (DCS/P3Dv4/ATS/ETS): AMD 7800X3D, MSI MPG X870E Carbon, Noctua NH-D15S, 64GB GSkill 6000/30, EVGA RTX3090 Alienware AW3420DW 34" 21:9 GSync, Corsair HX1000i PSU, 4TB Crucial T705 PCIe5 + 2TB Samsung 970Evo Plus, TM TCA Officer Pack, Saitek combat pedals, TM Warthog, TM RS300 FF wheel/pedals, Coolermaster HAF XB case
March 31, 20215 yr If you only try to do it as switches, it's quite easy. in the axies assign page, on the right side, you can set if the axis move to upper range, it send throttle increase (and check on the "repeat when axies are in range"), and lower range send throttle decrease. but unless you put more fancy input in the ini edit, I think you can only put throttle incrase/decrasce and "incrase fast" "decrease fast" these 2 rate.
March 31, 20215 yr Much much easier just to get a throttle quadrant. And much more realistic as well. Intel I7-4770 3.4Ghz 16 Gb RAM nVidia GTX770 2Gb Windows 8.1 64 bit P3D 4.4/3.4 FSX SE
March 31, 20215 yr Commercial Member 2 hours ago, thefrog said: Much much easier just to get a throttle quadrant. And much more realistic as well. Or maybe just take the joystick centering spring out? 🙂 Pete Win10: 22H2 19045.2728 CPU: 9900KS at 5.5GHz Memory: 32Gb at 3800 MHz. GPU: RTX 24Gb Titan 2 x 2160p projectors at 25Hz onto 200 FOV curved screen
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