What is a good alternative to joy to key?

[SCG_motoadve]

Have some controllers, that need a program to make it work in IL2/

I find Joy to Key very complicated to use.

Any other alternatives more user friendly?

[Alonzo]

I like AutoHotKey but I have to admit it can be pretty complicated. It's a full programming/scripting language and you can do all sorts of quite specific stuff with it, including scripting POV hats, doing key combinations, doing long/short/double-press buttons, etc.

[SCG_Wulfe]

I like autohotkey. I find it more simple and bulletproof compared to joytokey. 

[Leon_Portier]

I dont know too much about autohotkey, but I´m using Universal Control Remapper, which features a Axis to Key function.
As far as I know UCR is just a front end for Autohotkey.

[Sokol1]

Of existing keymappers - JoyToKey, SVMapper, Mcabmapper, HidMacros, XPadder, UJR, Joystick Gremlin... JoyToKey is the more simple to use and configure.

 

But the thing is that JoyToKey and most of the others is not full compatible with IL-2:GB series due how game see combos (e.g. LCtrl+F) send by external programs, see F, LCTrl+F.

 

Anyway the more comprehensive and powerful is Joystick Gremlin - a visual GUI for AutoHotKey scripts and compatible with IL-2:GB because allow set delay between keypress and allow mix two or more controllers of different brands in one virtual.

 

 

[KpaxBos]

12 hours ago, Sokol1 said:

Anyway the more comprehensive and powerful is Joystick Gremlin - a visual GUI for AutoHotKey scripts and compatible with IL-2:GB because allow set delay between keypress and allow mix two or more controllers of different brands in one virtual.

 

+1 for Joystick Gremlin - https://whitemagic.github.io/JoystickGremlin/

 

Have Fun

[Warpig]

On 8/29/2019 at 4:32 PM, Sokol1 said:

Of existing keymappers - JoyToKey, SVMapper, Mcabmapper, HidMacros, XPadder, UJR, Joystick Gremlin... JoyToKey is the more simple to use and configure.

 

But the thing is that JoyToKey and most of the others is not full compatible with IL-2:GB series due how game see combos (e.g. LCtrl+F) send by external programs, see F, LCTrl+F.

 

Anyway the more comprehensive and powerful is Joystick Gremlin - a visual GUI for AutoHotKey scripts and compatible with IL-2:GB because allow set delay between keypress and allow mix two or more controllers of different brands in one virtual.

 

 

About the set delay option in Joystick Gremlin, do you have a recommended setting for this? I was not aware of this feature. 

[Sokol1]

See this example: 

 

[Alonzo]

On 8/29/2019 at 3:32 PM, Sokol1 said:

Anyway the more comprehensive and powerful is Joystick Gremlin - a visual GUI for AutoHotKey scripts and compatible with IL-2:GB because allow set delay between keypress and allow mix two or more controllers of different brands in one virtual.

 

I like Joystick Gremlin, +1 to trying it out for the OP, but a small correction: as far as I know it's not a GUI for AutoHotKey, it's it's own thing and requires vJoy, which it uses to create virtual joystick devices and then map between physical and virtual joysticks.

[SCG_motoadve]

I tried Joy2key and managed to make it work, but like the first time, it screwed up everything else, even the login to my IL2 account.

I tried login in and will get an invalid e mail message.

I had to re install the game.

[Sokol1]

No reason for JoyToKey "screw" the game, the only thing he does is send keypress or combos (e.g. Alt+key) -  and if is not started "As administrator", they key press is ignored by game, due Windows UAC.

 

 

 

 

[madisondavis]

AutoHotkey would be the best option and there are also alternative which may help you, you can check them here