[mikkowl]

Woohoo!

See what happens when you read the directions. The config additions sorted it all out. Smooth as silk so far.

Of course, none of the buttons are as handy on the quadrant as they were on the
HOTAS. I think I'll stay out of P38s for now

Thanks for great little program!

Thanks so much for this mod

I have a Saitek Throttle quad and have been waiting a long time for something like this!

Hammerheads in a P-38 should be much more fun now 8)

Cheers

Triad

I am so pleased to hear it works as it should! I'm working on updating it still and it is going nicely. Many new good features and improvements. Also, it is being expanded to allow more than just throttles (see below) offering features that single engine fliers might want as well. The name will no longer be descriptive with radiator support and all.. Making it possible that single engined guys won't discover it. Oh well. These are the currently expected features:

Merged version, 3.0

- Will use "device link" to interface with IL-2. Gives the full range of your axis devices instead of 5% increments. Frees up the power buttons that mods sometimes use. Fuel mixture will use buttons since device link does not support fuel mix.
- Radiator support (yes, radiator on an axis).
- Fuel mixture support (key emulation, bound to lever)
- Seperate buttons for engine ignition and feather prop (I fly with this on the G940 throttle and it's really awesome. Especially since I got the LED lights to shift color depending on what I'm doing, that's a seperate piece of software though, not included here).
- Invert-axis support.
- Button for telling program how many engines you have and what type of radiator it has (there's a big difference between the handling of a radiator with auto mode + manual, and only manual. It is controlled through only manipulating a single function so lever won't match the radiator if radiator has 7 positions instead of 6, etc).
- Button for exiting the program.

Seperate engine prop pitch and fuel mix support for each engine has been axed, because it never worked quite right, and made the experience plain nasty - and now with the added support of device link throttling, it would prevent device link from working properly. As I explained before, whenever switch to a new engine to apply some new throttle/pitch etc setting, ALL the settings of the previously selected engine is copied to the new one, making the prop pitch axis teleport to the previous engine's position. And if selecting another engine before prop pitch axis has finished 'resetting' to it's proper position, it gets stuck dead in it's tracks, never finishing moving to the proper position. It would make moving several levers at once very laggy and nasty if the engine settings were not symmetric. On the plus side this makes the experience much smoother and accurate, and we can get a few free levers for radiator, flaps, prop pitch & fuel mix (one lever for all engines). Even in my dual prop pitch set up for the Bf 110 and the Ju-88, I never, ever had any use of two prop pitch levers, and whenever I did move them so they weren't in the same position for each engine it started looking wonky and lagged.