Cougar & Realsimulator update
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Actually, all I’m doing is reading the manual…I have yet to own one of these, but you’re convincing me!
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I recently bought a very lightly-used FSSB R3 Warthog Lightning base and RS-F16-RG-HOM stick from another BMS forum user, but at the moment I’m using my Warthog stick on the Realsimulator base.
That’s not because of any problems with the Realsimulator stick. The stick works quite well, although I can see Stevie’s point, about how the 5-way-hat nature of (nearly all of) the buttons could be off-putting. I plan to use the Realsimulator stick in the future, but I’m using the Warthog stick for now, because my BMS setup is a purely desktop setup.
My throttle and stick are just sitting on a tabletop, and it’s a little bit higher than I’d like, because it’s a dining-room table. This places the stick well above the level of my elbow, which is pretty sub-optimal. I wish the stick was right in front of the arm rest on my chair, but the table is in the way. So, for the moment, the stick is up high on the tabletop.
That makes the Realsimulator stick not quite work for me, because it’s got a built-in forward lean to it. More than the Warthog stick does. On the Realsimulator stick, the aft edge of the “flange” on which your hand rests is tilted up in such a way that it presses uncomfortably into my hand when used as part of this desktop setup. That’s not the fault of the stick, it’s the fault of the too-high tabletop on which my stick sits.
If I get a new desk and chair, I will hopefully be able to use table mounts or chair mounts, and bring the throttle handle and the stick down until they’re in front of my elbows. The the forward lean of the Realsimulator stick will fit well. I hope to be able to use such a setup in the future. The Monstertech chair has got me intrigued…
So, I guess the soft metal at the base of my WH stick will likely suffer, and will lead to some play in the stick, but maybe not too much, since my current setup (hopefully) won’t be forever. Also, since I can’t exert much force on the stick, due to its high placement, I have both axes of my stick set to only about 2 lbs each. So I don’t think the Warthog is suffering too much, yet.
Upshot: I like the FSSB R3 base, I can make more delicate control inputs with it, such as during AAR. Initially, it has taken some getting used to, but I think it’s better for fine detail work, such as getting on the boom and staying on it. When I’m practicing AAR, I find that I can hold the stick very lightly, and since it moves essentially not at all, I just let myself feel the very slight elasticity of the skin on my fingers, thumb, and palm. Just working within the slight “play” that’s inherent in the flesh of my hand is the “regime” in which I make stick inputs during AAR. I think it works pretty well. I guess if I were a real Viper driver, I’d be using the slight “play” in the fabric of my glove, too, when I was close to the tanker.
Stevie’s right that the Realsimulator manual is good. You have to read it in a lot of detail, definitely make sure you don’t miss anything. But the details are in there, and after some careful reading, I got my [TUSBA R2 + Cougar throttle] and my [FSSB R3 + Warthog stick] set up in a way that works well for me.
what is the way to program combination of keys for a cougar stick mounted on FSSB R3L? for example, pinky + MSL step opening the refuel door during flight.
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Hi Alfred,
I’ve been away from BMS for a few weeks, busy with work and other things. I hope to have time next week to sit down and make sure I’ve got it all sorted, before I write a real reply.
But off the top of my head, I think I did that type of programming with the Alternative Launcher (AL). For example, I use pinky + RDR CURSOR / ENABLE to turn on my ACMI, and pinky + TMS-Down to turn my pilot model on and off. I know I originally programmed those combinations in AL, before I got the FSSB R3 base. I think I did the same thing after getting the FSSB R3 base and putting the Warthog stick on it.
I don’t know if this will be of any help, but here is the .xml file that my [FSSB+WH stick combo] uses:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1aSV3lk7Y2cbIxtlIrJ8TbF76sBBsiqFE/view?usp=sharing
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wow, too complicated!!
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wow, too complicated!!
The pinkyshift is just the Standard feature within BMS regardless of which Stick / HOTAS used to add another layer of functionality on every DX input. Pretty simple to setup with AL
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…setting up and using a Macro within the RealSim package is the simplest way.
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The pinkyshift is just the Standard feature within BMS regardless of which Stick / HOTAS used to add another layer of functionality on every DX input. Pretty simple to setup with AL
what I do is to go to setup in the game and controllers then load BMS_Basic DX TM Cougar which will then show key and mapping columns. For key “v” I see “pinky switch” ok so I click on the “v” with the mouse then click the pinky on the stick. Now the pinky is assigned the “v” key. But then there is also the key “Shift /” which the mapping show as “A/R DISC MSL Step Switch”. I have the MSL step, and the NWS activated but the A/R DISC is no longer functional.
I remember the DX Dunc mapping was such that pinky+S1 would open the refuel door and close it if pressed again. Right now this feature is hard to recover with FSSB -
I guess what I am trying to do is to assign “pinky+S1” the command of “shift r”, is there a simple way of doing that I wonder
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Hello!
watch this video, he can answer your questions about how to do callback assignments!
The video is in Portuguese, activate subtitles for English!
It is Libre Office, unlike Microsoft’s Excel.
I hope I helped you!
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I’ll check it out, thank you very much.