Falcon BMS Alternative Launcher (Easy Setup, Keep Joystick Assignments)
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I can’t thank you enough for your work on this project. I’ve tried in years past to manufacture a shifted state for that warthog throttle, never could. This works like magic, after I realized you must install your software on a vanilla BMS.
Could you explain in greater detail how to set up a simple on/ off switch with the two callbacks, Jammer on/Jammer off. I think I’ve tried every combination, but probably not. I must be missing something, help please.
I would really like to be able use this instead of throwing the toggle switch twice for off and on.
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I can’t thank you enough for your work on this project. I’ve tried in years past to manufacture a shifted state for that warthog throttle, never could. This works like magic, after I realized you must install your software on a vanilla BMS.
Could you explain in greater detail how to set up a simple on/ off switch with the two callbacks, Jammer on/Jammer off. I think I’ve tried every combination, but probably not. I must be missing something, help please.
I would really like to be able use this instead of throwing the toggle switch twice for off and on.
I’ve done this already. Its really easy. If you have a switch that you want an on-off setup what you have to do is assign the on portion then when assigning the off portion you have to select release first then set the switch to on. So that will tell BMS that when this switch releases from ON then it is OFF.
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Thank you, I will try this, although I don’t intend to use a four-way hat switch. I will try this with the EAC switch on the warthog throttle.
I apologize, I completely blew over your instructions. You can do incredible things with your software and it works! I just set the F-16 autopilot up completely with the autopilot toggle on the warthog. I use the autopilot on button, as the paddle switch, works great. I use the paddle switch as shift/modifier because I have short stubby small hands…As far as I am concerned, you made falcon history.
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If Toggle Switch is DXn try this.
SomethingCallbackOn DXn INV : DN
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Hello, I don’t want to risk my installation Sayer all i had to do to make it work as i wanted, so a quick question before i try this launcher:
Can it invert throttle axis?
What’s the best way to restore launcher bc back to original?Couldn’t find the info, thanks for your time!!!
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Hello, I don’t want to risk my installation Sayer all i had to do to make it work as i wanted, so a quick question before i try this launcher:
Can it invert throttle axis?
What’s the best way to restore launcher bc back to original?Couldn’t find the info, thanks for your time!!!
1st post!
Pay Attention before use.
The app will overwrite following setup files and the Registry of Falcon BMS.
The app will auto-generate backups of following files at User/Config/Backup.User/Config/axismapping.dat
User/Config/BMS - Full.key
User/Config/DeviceSorting.txt
User/Config/Falcon bms.cfg
User/Config/joystick.cal
User/Config/<callsign>.popI recommend make backups of the registry.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\BenchmarkSims\Falcon BMS 4.33 U1
or HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\BenchmarkS ims\Falcon BMS 4.33 U1(Export .reg file via regedit.exe, For restoring just run reg file you have backed up.)
Also backup the launcher.exe</callsign>
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Yes! I read about the backup but not the best way to restore!
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You could use Joystick Gremlin to combine axis’s and invert them as well as adding curves. A great tool
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Hi chihirobelmo and thanks for this excellent addition to BMS Falcon; it has saved me endless headaches rebinding axes whenever I launch the sim with unplugged devices!
I do have a difficulty with one key binding in particular, though. I used to use Snelle’s really good x55 profile with my HOTAS and he had a good use for the the ‘mousewheel’-thing on the throttle that I’d like to re-create in your software, only I can’t get it to work. The DX commands look like this:
SimDeselectOverride 93 -2 -2 0 0x0 0
SimDeselectOverride 221 -2 -2 0 0x0 0
SimSelectSRMOverride 93 -2 -2 0x42 0x0 0
SimDeselectOverride 94 -2 -2 0 0x0 0
SimDeselectOverride 222 -2 -2 0 0x0 0
SimSelectMRMOverride 94 -2 -2 0x42 0x0 0When I try and recreate this using Alt Launcher, I get this:
SimDeselectOverride 93 -2 -2 0 0x0 0
SimDeselectOverride 221 -2 -2 0 0x0 0
SimSelectSRMOverride 93 -1 -2 0x42 0x0 0
SimDeselectOverride 94 -2 -2 0 0x0 0
SimDeselectOverride 222 -2 -2 0 0x0 0
SimSelectMRMOverride 94 -1 -2 0x42 0x0 0…which doesn’t work properly because when rolling from MSL to DGFT overrides it doesn’t self-cancel like in Snelle’s behaviour above. To make with work with your launcher I had to manually edit the “-1” after SimSelectSRMOverride and SimSelectMRMOverride to a “-2” and save this as a new keyfile and manually change the keyfile once in BMS Falcon.
I may be mistaken but is it because the launcher won’t allow two different commands (SimSelectMRMOverride and SimDeselectOverride) to be bound to the same Invoke: DN key?
Can you help?
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I believe you can just toggle the override box in the config to restore the behavior you expect, or to make that method you described functional.
*Launch BMS, select Configuration, scroll to section shown below:
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SimDeselectOverride 93 -2 -2 0 0x0 0
SimDeselectOverride 221 -2 -2 0 0x0 0
SimSelectSRMOverride 93 -2 -2 0x42 0x0 0
SimDeselectOverride 94 -2 -2 0 0x0 0
SimDeselectOverride 222 -2 -2 0 0x0 0
SimSelectMRMOverride 94 -2 -2 0x42 0x0 0SimDeselectOverride 93 -2 -2 0 0x0 0 is when DX93 is pressed and invokes key Down.
SimSelectSRMOverride 93 -2 -2 0x42 0x0 0 is when DX93 is released and invokes key down.Alt Launcher should allow this…
I have to check but my pc crashed last week so needs some time…
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SimDeselectOverride 8 -2 -2 0 0x0 0 SimDeselectOverride 136 -2 -2 0 0x0 0 SimSelectMRMOverride 8 -2 -2 0x42 0x0 0 SimDeselectOverride 9 -2 -2 0 0x0 0 SimDeselectOverride 137 -2 -2 0 0x0 0 SimSelectSRMOverride 9 -2 -2 0x42 0x0 0
like this?
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@SemlerPDX: Thanks for your suggestion but in most of my attempts to fix this issue I did try with that setting enabled and disabled but it never seemed to help. The physical control I am using is (as far as I can tell) basically a mouse-wheel, and perhaps doesn’t send the right commands for this setting to work with. This is the only reason my feeble brain could come up with anyway.
@chihirobelmo: That explains a lot - I was confusing KEY DOWN and INVOKE: KEY DOWN! If your last message is your .key file as created by AltLauncher then that looks perfect! Your link results in “invalid attachment specified” however. Could you send again? I will have a try myself in the meantinme…
Update. Hmm this is what I ended up with:
SimDeselectOverride 93 -1 -2 0 0x0 0
SimDeselectOverride 221 -1 -2 0 0x0 0
SimSelectMRMOverride 93 -1 -2 0x42 0x0 0
SimDeselectOverride 94 -1 -2 0 0x0 0
SimDeselectOverride 222 -1 -2 0 0x0 0
SimSelectSRMOverride 94 -1 -2 0x42 0x0 0Note that after the button numbers the subsequent digits have reverted to “-1” value. The meaning of this isn’t explained in this article but needless to say, it doesn’t work
What am I missing?
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Here it is.
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That has done it!
Thanks so much for spending the time to explain this. Your software is clearly more powerful than my puny intellect can comprehend! Hopefully more people, especially those with X55/56 throttles will see this too.
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That has done it!
Thanks so much for spending the time to explain this. Your software is clearly more powerful than my puny intellect can comprehend! Hopefully more people, especially those with X55/56 throttles will see this too.
I have an X56 throttle too and was wondering if a dx shift key is required for this setup? I have untill now gotten away with not having a shifted layer. If it is required, which button do you have assigned for dx shift?
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Yeah I’d say a shifted layer is pretty much essential; and the key everybody uses is the pinky key on the stick. Please note for it to work properly you have to assign the STICK: PINKY SWITCH(DX SHIFT) map in both the shifted and unshifted state so it looks like the following:
Not doing this will cause you to be unable to ‘unshift’ your hotas functions and is a long standing requirement for BMS and nothing to do with AltLauncher.
If you were wondering what functions it would be useful to assign then look at the following from Snelle’s x-55 keyfile, which I used for a long time:
With an x56 you would definitely want to assign the left ministick to Radar Cursor (Cursor X/Cursor Y) and probably use the right ministick as a 4-way hat for CMS up/down/left/right, as in the real HOTAS.
Good luck
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Thanks for the reply javelin,
One last question, if you use the pinky key for dx-shift, what do you have bound for the actual in-game pinky key, i.e. FOV?
My ideal setup would be a short press for normal pinky key operation, and hold down for dx-shifting, but I’m not sure how to go about this.Cheers
Nicolas