MT50 CM2 Grip Wheel Brake Binding

[Decho]

I recently switched to a Virpil MT50 CM2 grip from a TM Warthog, which has mostly been great. One issue I'm having is with binding the wheel brake in IL2 - the lever on the front of the grip is an analogue axis but also registers a button press halfway through the travel of the lever. In DCS that's not a problem as axis/button bindings are done separately, but with IL2 it effectively means I can't bind the axis, only the button, as the software registers the button press as the input and ignores the continuing motion of the axis.

 

Is there a way around this? The control files for IL2 don't seem to be in a readily editable format so I'm not sure how to go about doing it that way either.

[Sokol1]

Option 1 

 

Use VirPil software and remove the button of brake lever configuration.

 

Option 2

 

Assign the axis manually be editing the file "current.input".

 

rpc_wheel_brakes,                                 joy#_axis_#,                                        0| // Wheel brakes

 

Replace the # by number of joystick - look in other axes assignment in the file for see joy number, and the lever axis name (letter) - look in Virpil test software.

 

This manual option allow you use the brake lever for wheel brakes in ground and assign the button for a flight function.

 

 

 

 

Edited June 14, 2019 by Sokol1

[Decho]

Thanks! The manual option will be necessary - I need the button available at least for other games (DCS).

[69th_Panp]

Nice tip Sokol1

thanks 

[ARM505]

2021 update: to manually edit the file, they seem to have renamed them - the file I needed to edit was current.actions in the \IL-2 Sturmovik Battle of Stalingrad\data\input folder. Find this line:

 

rpc_wheel_brakes,                                 key_slash,                                        0| // Wheel brakes

 

and add this line below that one: (note, change the joystick number, in my case my VPC is 'joy3', yours might be different, look for other axes or buttons you know you've already bound to that stick and identify that number)

rpc_wheel_brakes,                                 joy3_axis_z,                                      0|

 

The axis was then correctly bound in the sim.

[nickj123]

What I do is hold the lever in before I click to assign the brake axis, then release it during the assignment - it registers as an axis and not the button press.

[ARM505]

I tried that, couldn't get it to work. Always registered the button press for some reason.