CloD joystick shift/modifier button + pov button combination

[Jeroen-]

Hi all,

 

I'm setting up my T. Flight Hotas X for CloD similar to what I have for BoX series.

Found another thread here on the forum for the Hotas X which uses ~3 shift or modifier buttons such that you can assign more actions to the joystick. 

In BoX this meant you needed to edit the current.actions and current.map files accordingly, which worked.

Example in BoX for rpm setting on shift button + pov button:

keyboard

rpc_all_engines_props_pitch,                      key_rshift+key_equals/key_rshift+key_minus,           0| // Propeller RPM control 

joystick equivalent

rpc_pitch_trim,                                               joy0_b4+joy0_pov0_180/joy0_b4+joy0_pov0_0,        0|

 

Now I'm trying to do the same for CloD but running into some issue (might be as simple as not having/knowing the correct syntax)

 

Assigning a shift button + button works:

T.Flight_Hotas_X-35F80D13+Key7 T.Flight_Hotas_X-35F80D13+Key9=landingflaps_d

--> result is that you really need to hold both buttons (7 and 9) on the joystick for flaps to come down.

 

However trying to do the same but then using shift button +  pov as button does not:

T.Flight_Hotas_X-35F80D13+Key4 Pov0 T.Flight_Hotas_X-35F80D13+Pov=landingflaps_d

--> result is that the combo does not work but if you only press pov0 it does. So looks like that the combo is not recognized.

 

Anyone here faced the same or knows a solution for this? 

I searched around the forums, manuals, faqs etc but could not find this specific situation being addressed. 

 

Thanks in advance.

 

[Sokol1]

Don't need edit files for have a joystick modifier button in CloD, you can have how many you want.

 

Select a command, press the button you want work as modifier together with the other button, Controls GUI will register the two buttons.

 

An example, button # 17 is the modifier for button# 13 (trigger), for "Lean to gunsight" (center crosshair in German planes - a leftover from IL-2:1946).

 

 

In game press and hold button #17, press trigger, gunsight is centered and releasing # 17 you can use trigger for fire guns.

 

In ConfUser.ini file:

 

_VKB-Sim_Gladiator_-ABD81779+Key13 _VKB-Sim_Gladiator_-ABD81779+Key17=toggleAim

 

Notice that name in ConfUser.ini file don't reflect names of control in GUI. "Lean to Gunsight" became "toggleAim", so edit this file is not much practical... but doable.

 

You can use a button (or key) as modifier for axis too, but I don't find practical use for this, if you accidentally release the modifier, the axis position freeze.

I try make joystick Y axis a wheel brakes axis through a modifier button, but sometimes have a ... funny result. ?

Edited August 11, 2020 by Sokol1

[Jeroen-]

Thanks for the reply.

I managed to use modifiers via the gui but for some reason did not manage specifically in combo with the Hotas POV button. 

I'll try your suggestion out and indeed be careful with modifiers and axis button presses

 

[Sokol1]

I did a test setting a button for modifier POV HAT: Joy button button # 14 modifier for POV HAT up, in controls the assignment result  weird names: Pov0 + pov.

Same in ConfUser.ini, see in green

 

 

But in game the assignment (toggle flaps) work OK with POV up + button #14.