@huffer2 Is there a particular reason you’re not just assigning your desired HOTAS button in the TIR software?
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RE: how to get the TIR F9 pause/start to be on the HOTAS?
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RE: Quick update from the frontlines, 4.36
<p>@LorikEolmin As a very, very low level coder I can only imagine the headaches of overcoming this (and no doubt the satisfaction when you do) and commend all the devs for the untold hours they put in on what is obviously a labour of love for them. THANK YOU ALL!!</p>
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Increasing radio menu font size
Rather than necro’ing an old thread that refers to about 3 others over this and the old forum, I thought I’d just put all the info here for those who need it.
1st easy solution would be change scaling in the launcher config menu. However, I found even setting that to 150% didn’t do anything in my case.
So in my searching I found you need to change the values in the otwfonts.dat file in the C:\Falcon BMS 4.35\Data\Art\CkptArt (your directory tree may vary).
Not sure why, but it’s suggested you need to change the values under 1024x768 no matter what actual resolution you’re running so this is what I did and it worked. I’m on 3840x2160 screen res and the settings I used were:#resolution 1024 768
#font 0 1 0 20 Arial
#font 1 1 0 24 Arial
#font 2 0 0 20 Arial
#font 3 1 0 24 Arial
#font 4 1 0 24 ArialThen to move the box over so the right side doesn’t get cut off and the blue box covers the whole area, edit the menu.dat file (in the same directory). This one you DO want to edit the part that has the actual resolution you’re using (so 3840x2160 in my case). Good directions in the remarks at the top of this that will tell you what changing the values do. Short version is 4th number is left edge of menu box, so lowering it moves it left, increasing it moves it right. The 5th box controls the bottom of the box, so if you increase it moves the bottom of the box down, increasing it moves the bottom up. This is the #'s I’ve found that work for me. Depending on your resolution you’ll have to play with numbers for size and placement.
3840 2160 130 3210 450 3840
I haven’t tested this extensively yet, so maybe there are some unintended side effects that I haven’t discovered yet, but so far it seems to be working well. As a general good practice when editing this type of file it’s usually recommended to use an editor such as Notepad++ rather than the built in Windows Notepad to maintain proper file structure.
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RE: Want to switch back to my CH HOTAS
CH Manager on Win10 is what finally pushed me over the edge to get a Warthog setup. CH Manager worked, sometimes, when it felt like it, and was sometimes fixable randomly by restarting (sometimes once but often 5-10x restarting it). The quality of the TM (and more so the Virpil base I have now) is just so much higher too.
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RE: mfg crosswind peddles
@SOBO-87
FYI - in the last year or so they come with a clip to do what you’re doing with the glue.
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RE: mfg crosswind peddles
@SOBO-87
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RE: how to get the TIR F9 pause/start to be on the HOTAS?
@huffer2 Sorry, I meant you should actually be able to just assign the actual HOTAS button directly in TIR if it’s DX. I have my “centre TIR” set to one of the buttons on my stick. Do this as opposed to trying to set a key in TIR and then having the joystick call that key.
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RE: how to get the TIR F9 pause/start to be on the HOTAS?
@huffer2 Is there a particular reason you’re not just assigning your desired HOTAS button in the TIR software?
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RE: Rookie introduces himself and asks for advice for hotas
Warthog will be a step up from what you have, but as much as I like the grip (and still use that) I would jump to a Virpil WarBRD or other base. You’ll likely have to do some work/modification to make WH base work to it’s potential and something like the Virpil is good to go out of the box. The WinWing F-16 throttle is worth looking at as well. It comes with an appropriate antenna rotary and physical detent system that matches the real thing. Personally I found the WinWing joystick to be too mushy, but others have liked it. Again, the WH throttle will be a big step up, but if you can afford it (and since you know you’re going to want it for the long term) I’d jump over it to higher quality, better setup product. TM has recently changed the TDC switch on new versions, so you likely won’t have to replace that right off unless you get old stock (in which case just spend the few bucks and replace it off the top – the original sucks).
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RE: Winwing Orion 2 - Cutoff & Idle position detection
No idea how you do it in Alt Launcher, but what you need to do is assign the buttons the WinWing shows for IDLE and CUTOFF to these commands (it sends a button press for going into and a different one for going out of cutoff):
SimThrottleIdleDetentForward
SimThrottleIdleDetentBackI use the Excel version to do this. Assigning the cuttoff to the axis in BMS won’t work because the WinWing doesn’t show any axis movement once it’s behind the idle detent. Also, make sure you are using the option in SimAppPro to split the throttle up because BMS won’t recognize all the buttons otherwise.
Note: this was for 4.35, I assume callbacks haven’t changed in 4.36 but I don’t know for sure.
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RE: Quick update from the frontlines, 4.36
<p>@LorikEolmin As a very, very low level coder I can only imagine the headaches of overcoming this (and no doubt the satisfaction when you do) and commend all the devs for the untold hours they put in on what is obviously a labour of love for them. THANK YOU ALL!!</p>
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RE: Warthog Slider as Gear Lever?
@white_fang said in Warthog Slider as Gear Lever?:
@drtbkj
That’s exactly the point… program the ‘Throttle’ . , but just the gear lever.After that there’s nothing else that should be needed, not even ‘Target’ running in background.
When ‘stick’ is programmed , flashed the eprom with the script/program, it should run on its own without any software support., exactly Plug’n’Pray
I know there are certain ‘smart’ hardware/software solutions that programming software have to run in background like command descriptor, but I don’t believe TM 'Warthog’sticks (unlike old Logitech or Genius) behave like that.
Even my bloody Cougar is programmed for who knows how long … and there’s nothing I have to do else then just plug it in computer.
You don’t need any TM software installed on PC , not even I/O driver , as its only use is for programming the stick, but not for using the stick with whatever game …cough… sim .Better check again, I’m no ‘Warthog’ user/owner but I can’t think any other way, that should work.
Cheers
I don’t believe the TM throttle works like that. I’ve never used it, but I believe the TARGET software takes the input from the throttle and sends your computer what you want (i.e. when it sees the lever move past 50% it would send the key you wanted) rather than anything changing in the throttle itself (i.e. the throttle keeps just sending it’s position from 0-100 and the TARGET software is interpreting that to do what you have it programmed to do). That’s why you’d have to keep running TARGET in the background.
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RE: Bullseye ring range in default Korea map
@fearripper96 - thanks
@Quasi_Stellar - thought I looked for a ruler, but maybe I just thought I had but didn’t . Thanks.
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Bullseye ring range in default Korea map
In the Tiger Spirit campaign on the default Korea map, what range do the bullseye rings on the planning map represent?
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RE: Want to switch back to my CH HOTAS
CH Manager on Win10 is what finally pushed me over the edge to get a Warthog setup. CH Manager worked, sometimes, when it felt like it, and was sometimes fixable randomly by restarting (sometimes once but often 5-10x restarting it). The quality of the TM (and more so the Virpil base I have now) is just so much higher too.