I have been playing around with my control setup and recently modified an old
joystick to work as a throttle quadrant (has throttle, mixture and pitch
controls plus a starter button). This freed up some buttons and one axis
(was throttle) on my main stick and I am in the process of remapping these
and I would like to map these to a number of things many of which I have been
able to figure out. But I have run into some things that I am not sure how
to handle.
The first issue is how the boost control is set up. I notice that in the P51,
Corsair and the Beaufighter that these are setup differently but not much
differently. Just enough that it looks like anything I setup in my joystick
configuration will be correct for only one aircraft. This is probably the
case with other aircraft as well. Is there a simple way to map a button on
the stick to toggle this setting correctly for all aircraft types?
Second the torpedo in the Beaufighter uses what appears to be a standard
property for releasing bombs and torpedos :
<property>/controls/armament/station/release-all</property>
Which seems like it should work for any aircraft that has either bombs or
torpedoes. This was easy to setup and it worked in my testing. But the
rockets use a custom nasal script:
<key n="72">
<name>H</name>
<desc>Fire Rockets</desc>
<binding n="0">
<command>nasal</command>
<script>beaufighter.fire_rp()</script>
</binding>
</key>
and the A10 also uses a nasal script for it's canon:
<key n="101">
<name>e</name>
<desc>Fire GAU-8/A cannon</desc>
<binding>
<command>nasal</command>
<script>A10.fire_gau8a()</script>
</binding>
<mod-up>
<binding>
<command>nasal</command>
<script>A10.cfire_gau8a()</script>
</binding>
</mod-up>
</key>
There are perhaps other aircraft that also have guns, missiles or other
armaments but I have not located these yet so I don't know how much variation
there is in how this is handled. But my real question is. How are these
mapped to a joystick/controller button in such a way that it works for a wide
range of aircraft or even for that matter for a single aircraft?
Hal
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