Way to use mini-joystick on stick for view?
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Hi folks,
since I don’t own a head tracking device and there’s this mini-joystick with two axis on the optional unit on the top left side of the winwing F16-stick:
I wonder if it is possible to set up this mini-joystick for using it either to rotate the view or perhaps also to move the point of view (the two kinds of moving the view which you also can do with the mouse while pressing the corresponding mouse button).
My preferred logic of the stick would be a absolute movement of the view bound to the joystick movement, so that the view returns to it’s centered position when the joystick ist released to the center again after moving it. But also relative movement would be worth a try.Has anybody tried this and has a way to share how to realize this?
Best regards and thanks in advance,
Markus -
@Markusle This is totally doable using opentrack, in opentrack you can set it up to take input from a controller axis and output as if it’s a Track IR.
Let me know if you need more details.
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Yep I tried this with OpenTrack for a while.
I was hoping for a more “relative” or incremental movement… like an analog version of the way the 8-way-hat works by default. But it doesn’t do that.
(It’s open source, so I could prly make that happen but … it wasn’t clear that anyone but me would want that. :P)
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Hi i have used trackir and opentrack with delanclip, but I get very bad headache from using it.
If you ministick can be configured as a mouse you can do this:
use the software “JoyToKey”. Then configure that when you move the stick left, you send Rightclik + mouse movement left, and the same for the other directions.It works pretty well for me, and im sure you can even make a better config with joytokey.
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Thank’s a lot for the hints.
I will give now headtracking with the cellphone app “smoothtracker” together with opentrack a try. Let’s see how this works out.
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@Markusle Just to be clear, @SOBO-87 and I are saying it’s possible to use OpenTrack for this, without any actual head tracking.
It’s an open hub which can take inputs from a variety of sources (eg. camera or smartphone, or the x/y ministick) and emit a virtual “head position” signal for BMS to use.
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What I did in my Mac setup with FAF was to use a shift key to toggle the Trim hat between Trim and POV - works really well…I haven’t run that setup for a bit, but I think what I did was to set up the toggle by using a double tap of the NWS/MSL Step switch on the side of the stick.