Hi,

In any version of MSFS i havent being able to nail down the VC movement to the left and back . I have all 4 direction mapped to the hatswitch and strangely enough only right and forward works . 

I can use the arrows on the keyboard offcause but find in strange . There isnt any other mapping to this

Michael Moe

I just tested it. Tested the in cockpit views which FSX used to call 'seat point adjustment or something like that).  All 6 directions which I have mapped onto one 4-way hat work perfectly.

MSFS allows mapping such that commands to be executed require 2 simultaneous button presses. So the 6 commands are easily mapped onto one 4 way hat: Up, Down, Right, Left are just a corresponding hat movement. Forward and Backward commands are: paddle + hat up and paddle + hat down. paddle is a button on TM Warthog that presses when you just squeeze your pinkie finger backwards when your hand is on the stick.

In the MSFS controls window you just push two buttons one after the other to set up the mapping for these type of 2 button commands (which programmers call 'shifted' commands). MSFS makes doing this sort of thing very easy.

 

 

Edited July 31, 20214 yr by Fielder

buttons 11 and 13 are the up and down movements on a hat.

button 4 is used as a shift key to change the commands given when you move the hat. On my TM Warthog stick button 4 is the pinkie finger flipper button.

 

 

So the hat up and hat down is either up and down or forward and backward, depending on whether or not you are also pressing the flipper button at the same time.

You can do this with a yoke instead of a stick too. But you need to press two simultaneous buttons. Which is not as handy to do on a yoke compared to a stick that has a 'trigger' or a 'flipper', using the trigger or flipper as the dedicated shift key.

1 hour ago, Fielder said:

I just tested it. Tested the in cockpit views which FSX used to call 'seat point adjustment or something like that).  All 6 directions which I have mapped onto one 4-way hat work perfectly.

MSFS allows mapping such that commands to be executed require 2 simultaneous button presses. So the 6 commands are easily mapped onto one 4 way hat: Up, Down, Right, Left are just a corresponding hat movement. Forward and Backward commands are: paddle + hat up and paddle + hat down. paddle is a button on TM Warthog that presses when you just squeeze your pinkie finger backwards when your hand is on the stick.

In the MSFS controls window you just push two buttons one after the other to set up the mapping for these type of 2 button commands (which programmers call 'shifted' commands). MSFS makes doing this sort of thing very easy.

 

 

Thanks , Not sure i understand but i have the first one all-ready working and also the "translate Cockpit view right" with POV up and POV right

I dont understand why left and back is not responding to input from POV left and POV down?

 

POV is related to the name of the hat-switch in MSFS

Michael Moe

Michael Moe

If you mapped the appropriate commands to POV left and POV down then they should work. Like I said I just tested it and: up down left right forward and back all work just like I programmed all 6 of those commands onto a 4 way hat. It does not matter whether the hat is the POV hat or another hat. They all take whichever commands that you program onto them in the same way.

O course I removed all the commands that MSFS defaulted onto the buttons and hats of all my controllers. Because everybody likes the commands to be on the DX buttons and DX axis of their controllers differently, and in their own way. Hardly anybody wants it done the same way, or the default way. Instead they want it programmed so as to be easiest for themselves to operate, and easiest to remember.

I am using only 4 controllers: Russian VKB pedals, Warthog throttle, Warthog stick, and Desktop Aviator elevator-rudder trim panel.

I will be adding a CH throttle quadrant soon (I won't have any of the 6 levers running an engine throttle, they will be doing other things). It also gives you 12 momentary, return to center buttons. I'll add it just because I have it here from years collecting dust and doing nothing. Might as well use it.