Mixture, Prop RPM, Radiators---Possible to make key/button bindings work?

[manashttu]

Hello all.

New to Great Battles series. In key bindings, it allows the mapping of keys and buttons for Prop RPM, mixture, and radiator levels. It also allow for binding an axis to each of those.

When I enter P-51 or Spitfire (the two I've tried)---only axis control works. The button and key assignments will not change the settings. This is true even when I do not bind an axis. IL-2 has default key commands---they don't affect the Prop, mixture, radiator either.

Am I missing a step or setting? I have more buttons than axis, and in 1946 could use my buttons for these functions . . .

Thank you for any guidance . . .

[R6ckStar]

1 hour ago, manashttu said:

Hello all.

New to Great Battles series. In key bindings, it allows the mapping of keys and buttons for Prop RPM, mixture, and radiator levels. It also allow for binding an axis to each of those.

When I enter P-51 or Spitfire (the two I've tried)---only axis control works. The button and key assignments will not change the settings. This is true even when I do not bind an axis. IL-2 has default key commands---they don't affect the Prop, mixture, radiator either.

Am I missing a step or setting? I have more buttons than axis, and in 1946 could use my buttons for these functions . . .

Thank you for any guidance . . .

Are you sure in the in game difficulty options you don't have the auto engine management on?

I think the key assignment works as follows:

 

For planes where the control is an axis, the controls that govern it are marked as an axis, however you can still set buttons for those functions.

 

I'm gonna take a screenshot of my key mapping so you can better understand what I'm saying:

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Edited October 21, 2019 by R6ckStar

[TCW_Brzi_Joe]

There are some functions bindable to keys only, not possible on axis. I think prop pitch is one, water radiator for 110 and spitfire, and trimming.

If you have problem with some function and bind, google that directly. 

 

PS: I wish to have prop pitch and RPM on same axis, but not possible. Now I have it on keys, one for +pp/-rpm, and another -pp/+rpm. No big deal.

[Art-J]

Also, I think P-51 manual mode for oil cooler shares the assignment with He-111, while coolant radiator shares the assignment with... something else. This info can be found scattered in recent forum threads, but since I'm not bothered with manual operation in the Mustang (auto regulators seem to be working well enough), I can't be more specific, sorry . Someone more knowledgeable will surely chime in.

Edited October 21, 2019 by Art-J

[56RAF_Stickz]

 

mixture spit ix does not have mixture control it also does not have radiator control similar to P51. Both however do have manual radiator mode but its only sets to fully open ie meant for ground service or emergency use.

Prop pitch controls can work for axis or switches, I have it on axis.  Works for me. But do not set to manual mode, works differently.

So the only operations you need for spit ix/P51 is prop pitch and mixture for P51. But as already mentioned by r6ckstar, if you have auto engine management and other control boxes ticked in difficulty settings, these controls will be ignored.

[BMA_FlyingShark]

I have everything on keys for now (except roll, pitch and yaw) because my throttle quadrant went to the bones.

So yes, it is possible to bind them on keys, there are even default bindings but I forgot those because I use custom ones, anyway, you find them in your engine controls.

 

Hope this helps.

 

Have a nice day.

 

[manashttu]

SOLVED.  Thank you all for the help.  Over the lunch hour, I experimented some more.  Mapping buttons alongside keystrokes was a no-go.  However, I figured out if I used just keystrokes, or just buttons---the RPM control would work, even alongside a mapping for an axis.  I also discovered that the buttons I was using on the button box, which are rotary type knobs which very briefly trigger a button push, were not holding the press long enough to register movement on the RPM lever.  However, using JoyToKey (as suggested by a good fellow in Reddit)--I was able to fix it with this:

 

 

 

Regular buttons would not need this, as one can hold them as long as needed.  

 

Ultimately, I think the breakthrough was using either buttons or key presses---and JoyToKey (which is a great program I've used for a decade)---allows one to leave the key presses at default, have an axis and use buttons.

 

Thank you again for all the help.  What a great community.

[Sokol1]

7 hours ago, manashttu said:

 Mapping buttons alongside keystrokes was a no-go.  However, I figured out if I used just keystrokes, or just buttons

 

Yes, the detail is that can't use a button + key for a command, neither a button + button* or key + key. Only default modifier keys - Alt, Ctrl, Shift, Win (L/R) + key or button.

 

* This option is possible, but only editing "current.actions" file, adding there the second button.

12 hours ago, Brzi_Joe said:

PS: I wish to have prop pitch and RPM on same axis, but not possible. Now I have it on keys, one for +pp/-rpm, and another -pp/+rpm. No big deal.

 

Propeller Pitch + and Propeller Pitch - require different keys/buttons, because some in planes the control of pitch is done by two electric buttons (e.g. Bf 109) or momentary ON-OFF-ON switch and not by (analog) lever. Nothing wrong there, unless one want a "gamey" solution for this control.

Edited October 22, 2019 by Sokol1