Hello All-
I have enjoyed flying with Orbiter on and off since some quite early version and it is time to give something back to the community.
I always find the build-in joystick support quite minimal and the use of FlyByWire + Joy2Key a bit too fiddly. I wanted something better and more integrated so I got on and did it.
I have a first cut version which I am willing to share with a few volunteers to collect early comments. This is not meant to be a beta test, I am interest in collecting constructive suggestions on the features.
The plan is to provide a feature complete version at a later (unspecified) date.
The HOTAS add-on features currently included are :
Planned features (depending on feedback)
NOTES:
- I only tried with my single Thrustmaster T-Flight Hotas X so far, but since the low level support is based on the latest SDL library I do not see why it should not work with others.
- Having used a single Joystick only, there is chance that it won’t work with more than one, please move on, it should not prevent anyone for making useful comments.
- For Orbiter 2010 (100830) only
If you are interested, please drop me a private message. I’ll try to make the binaries available before Christmas. I will be off-line until mid January.
Enjoy space.
Micro_g
I have enjoyed flying with Orbiter on and off since some quite early version and it is time to give something back to the community.
I always find the build-in joystick support quite minimal and the use of FlyByWire + Joy2Key a bit too fiddly. I wanted something better and more integrated so I got on and did it.
I have a first cut version which I am willing to share with a few volunteers to collect early comments. This is not meant to be a beta test, I am interest in collecting constructive suggestions on the features.
The plan is to provide a feature complete version at a later (unspecified) date.
The HOTAS add-on features currently included are :
- Support of up to 4 Joysticks (It should be plenty for anyone)
- Fully configurable via configuration file:
o Axes can be mapped to any thruster group or control surface (including trim surfaces)
o Buttons can be used to send any key combination (including numpad-/!)
o Virtual Axes (use joystick buttons as up/down controls)
o Hat support
o Camera support
o RCS throttling (Map axis full scale to fraction of the RCS thrust) - Support for multiple user–definable configurations (states)
o You can switch, for example, between an Atmospheric and an Orbital State where each one having different button (and axes) assignments - Vessel-class specific configuration:
o Each vessel can have its own configuration, it will be switched automatically you change the focus vessel. - HOTAS MFD
o Displays the current configuration state
o Current value of virtual axes
Planned features (depending on feedback)
- Configurable Dead band and saturation for each individual axes
- Axis transformations (axes inversion, lin/log etc..)
- Button combinations (use a button as shift)
- Run script action (on button pressed)
- Configurable mapping of keys to MFD buttons (useful for bases and space station)
- HUD (to display the current state)
- Any other suggestion.
NOTES:
- I only tried with my single Thrustmaster T-Flight Hotas X so far, but since the low level support is based on the latest SDL library I do not see why it should not work with others.
- Having used a single Joystick only, there is chance that it won’t work with more than one, please move on, it should not prevent anyone for making useful comments.
- For Orbiter 2010 (100830) only
If you are interested, please drop me a private message. I’ll try to make the binaries available before Christmas. I will be off-line until mid January.
Enjoy space.
Micro_g
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