peter197 32 Posted October 14, 2017 Share Posted October 14, 2017 Hi, I have enjoyed the Lightning for a pretty long time, but one of my very small gripes is that there's little, aside from the weapon systems that can be mapped onto the stick. From what I understand, the only assignments are the following(aside from Tacpack items): Break chute deploy Brake Chute Release Gun Trigger Certain switches like the following would be great if there were commands associated with them (perhaps LUA in PSUIPC?): FD/OFF/AP switch on stick Canopy close Canopy Lock Autothrottle Flt Refuel Tacan controls Heading Bug Heading and Height Switches SWP cancel I'd be interested if other people have other ideas of what else there may be, but those are the things that would be great in being able to map onto my stick and throttle. (I know there's an argument saying it's not realistic to have the button on the stick considering the actual pilots had to press those switches, but then again using a mouse to click the switch seems less realistic). Cheers, Peter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wingman5 149 Posted October 14, 2017 Share Posted October 14, 2017 Hi Peter The Keys .XML in the TP folder holds a whole slew of keyboard shortcuts At the moment they are utilised mainly by the radar and weapons but they can be mapped to any operative you want . The problem with mapping to a stick is .. there are many different sticks with varying amounts of buttons and switches so its up to the individual to sort it out. Keyboards are pretty universal so I have used what I hope are unused key combos. A pilot has to learn the cockpit of every aircraft he flies , but mapping all the systems to your stick means you learn your stick and not the cockpit layout of the aircraft you are in ! .......... but that's only my opinion. D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peter197 32 Posted October 15, 2017 Author Share Posted October 15, 2017 I think what I meant was either there would be an lua file where on fsuipc you can map commands to your stick(or keyboard), or alternatively just have key board shortcuts that I can then later map to my stick. But i'll look at the keys.xml file tomorrow Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue Diamond 1 Posted August 7, 2018 Share Posted August 7, 2018 Hi Peter As its around a year now hopefully your issues have been resolved. I have just managed to Map the FD/AP Switch using a very simple LUA script with FSUIPC Button Assignments and manual editing of the FSUIPC4.ini Has some flaws (using mouse and button in same flight conflicts) that could be ironed out with a smarter LUA script but up to now I'm happy. The idea of mapping Autopilot controls to an MFD, I have seen AP_TRACK in L:Vars. Chris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wingman5 149 Posted August 8, 2018 Share Posted August 8, 2018 22 hours ago, Blue Diamond said: Hi Peter As its around a year now hopefully your issues have been resolved. I have just managed to Map the FD/AP Switch using a very simple LUA script with FSUIPC Button Assignments and manual editing of the FSUIPC4.ini Has some flaws (using mouse and button in same flight conflicts) that could be ironed out with a smarter LUA script but up to now I'm happy. The idea of mapping Autopilot controls to an MFD, I have seen AP_TRACK in L:Vars. Chris Hi Chris Not sure if there is a question in your post ? Do you want a list of the AP L:VARS ? DR Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue Diamond 1 Posted August 11, 2018 Share Posted August 11, 2018 Hi DR No I had a bit of success mapping the Lightning FD/AP Switch and I had seen Peters plight when I was trying to dig out some information. Was just trying to pass on my findings. Chris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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