Warthog Trottles: more axes than physically available?

[JG27*PapaFly]

Here's a question for you controller experts: I'd like the two throttle axes to be assigned to different functions depending on the number of engines on my plane.

 

Single engine plane: one throttle for power, the other for prop pitch.

 

Two engine plane: both throttles for power; one for engine 1, the other for engine 2.

 

Can this be done? I use the target software with advanced profiles and a few extra autohotkey scripts. I don't use the target scripting language and have no time to learn it.

[Sokol1]

In TARGET create one profile for each type of plane and load when fly one type or another.

 

BTW - ~99% of time you will use  throttle of two engines planes link in single engine.

[Seb71]

I think you might as well just change the keybindings in game, depending on the situation, if only one axis needs to be different.

[JG27*PapaFly]

15 hours ago, Sokol1 said:

In TARGET create one profile for each type of plane and load when fly one type or another.

 

I don't think that'll help, since the slider axes are assigned directly in-game. AFAIK the game will always identify e.g. the left throttle axis as the left throttle axis, independent of the target profile I'm using. What I'd like to do is to assign a physical axis as e.g. axis 1, and as a different axis when I fly another plane.

 

The reason I want this is that I can do very fast hammerhead reversals in e.g. BF-110 and HS-129 using differential power on both engines. Great fun while attacking tanks.

[Seb71]

It should work, because you can assign different axis in the two TARGET profiles (such as Rotation X in one profile and Rotation Y in the other, for the same physical lever). Il-2 might detect each profile as a different device though and ask to re-assign the keybindings.

 

But if that is the only difference you want, you could as well just go into the game keybindings and re-assign that axis when changing type of aircraft (fighter/bomber).

[JG27*PapaFly]

Thanks guys, it worked by using two profiles on target!?