Thrustmaster blues
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You guys are kidding right? Does one have to go to coding school and learn calculus and become an Astronaut just to be able to plug a joy stick and throttle quadrant in and have this most high end of sims recognize it? Surely you jest. I’m in setup, it sees my thrustmaster t16000 trottle quadrant and my 3d pro extreme, and yet, no joy on throttle quadrant. Then I come here and am seeing …" oh yea, you gotta unhook the thermonuclear aborigine from the terminal Eskimo and then reroute all of the blatfitz to farngarn." C’mon…seriously? is it going to be this hard?
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@jusam3 try the alternate launcher found it very easy to assign key bindings
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@jusam3 to be fair, real life F-16 pilots do have to learn calculus, some basic programming, and probably all are on a short-list to become astronauts… :]
yeah that’s an [edit: un]usual combo so it’s going to be a little hard. no built-in button mappings for logitech 3d extreme, that I know of.
iirc it’s similar enough to the T16000.M stick, that you might get by with taking a community-maintained key file, like
https://forum.falcon-bms.com/topic/16792/thrustmaster-t-16000m-twcs-keyfilebut it might be less fuss just to do the axis and button mappings, yourself, with the new launcher
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@airtex2019 Omg, that is too funny. When I read your post it was like a brick in the face,lol. Yes, those guys are those things! It wasn’t part of my my thought process when I wrote it ha ha. I realize there is a pretty good curve to this whole affair but to guys who aren’t used to having to do this stuff to try to get things to work, it’s almost a kneecapping. I’m a huge believer in RTFM so I’ll read what you sent me and start from there. Thanks guys for chiming in and helping a noob. Oh btw, I am still on 4.36.3 getting ready to go to 4.37 but I have already downloaded the new Launcher and the throttle doesn’t seem to be responding there either. But I’ll keep at it because I seriously want to participate in multiplayer events. I watch you guys on you tube running missions and it just makes me crazy to want to do this. Thank you!
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@jusam3 Are you kidding me? When I first started you needed a PhD to read the damn manual or a carton of grog. You guys have it easy now, sounds like you didn’t select the joystick in the controller section, then click on advanced (PhD needed here)
Set your throttle, rudder pedals quadrants here.
Or if you are a real genius, do it all via the Alternative Launcher!
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BMS 4.37 has a new UI also uses the alternate
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@Kavelenko Sorry for being off topic…
That’s funny about needing a PHD back in the day. I remember I had to figure out how to disable different systems within DOS to free up enough onboard memory (that’s the 64kb of memory on the motherboard that it needed to run and not RAM) so that falcon 3.0 could run. And I didn’t have the internet to look up how to do it. Those were the days! -
@Kavelenko Hello Kavelenko, Thanks for your input and illustrations. I actually already attempted the settings you suggested but I was still in 4.36.3 and achieved no joy on the throttle quadrant. I downloaded and installed 4.37 and the new launcher. I don’t seem to be able to get the launcher to do anything for me but the controls section in game now seems to be responding to my t16000m throttle. Weird. Anyway thank you for your help. This is a good community. Oh, and btw, come and visit me on the high road sometime, the view is wonderful from up here.
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@jusam3 No problem, glad you got a result. Alternative Launcher takes some getting used to but its the fastest way I know to get a HOTAS configured, especially when it comes to mapping call-backs to your throttle and stick.
Initially I advise to set the joystick up the way I suggested perhaps the first time but once you’ve got the axis’s sorted then I close down and go to the launcher, and check that those axis are all working properly in the AL. Then proceed to map all the switches according to your preferences. This can become a problem if you dont know the name of the call back you’re looking for, but you can search and look at different sections to find precisely what you’re looking for. The process before AL was quite difficult in the past hence many pilots got pretty good at editing the key-files directly.
Just be aware AL may override your rudder pedals, and the mirror setting in the graphics section. I prefer to use my right pedal to control both brakes, unfortunately AL will set it to left pedal so sometimes when I make changes to my call backs in AL it overrides my pedal settings and I have to redo them in the BMS setup. No complaints because it is just so handy now.
Biggest winner in AL for me is the ability to set a release on a single throw switch i.e. when you move the switch its on, when you switch it back its off. You could edit the key-file to achieve this but now its just a couple clicks in AL.
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