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How to set up thrust levers for Arma ?

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How to set up thrust levers for Arma ?
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10-28-2015, 03:15 PM
I've heard that you are supposed to set up thrust levers by first mapping the positive and negative thrust axis on the same control "Thrust (analogue)", but when I try, it wasn't working. Am I doing something wrong ?
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10-28-2015, 03:44 PM
Are we talking planes or helicopters? For helos I have the - and + axis of my throttle mapped to "collective raise (analogue)". For planes I have it set the same way on "thrust (analogue)" and it seems to work although admittedly I don't fly planes much. For helos how ever this is the magic formula, I found
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10-29-2015, 12:18 PM
So even for helos, you got both mapped to the same ?

Geez, why doesn't Arma do it like, well, all the other games Tongue
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10-29-2015, 02:16 PM
I got the same setting both for choppers and planes, as McGregor describes.
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10-29-2015, 04:22 PM
(10-29-2015, 12:18 PM)Varanon link Wrote: So even for helos, you got both mapped to the same ?

Geez, why doesn't Arma do it like, well, all the other games Tongue

Yes I know it's weird. But it works  :o
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10-29-2015, 04:23 PM
FYI, Ondrej said it's not working on the Advanced Flight Model, but McGregor says it works for him when using the AFM.
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10-29-2015, 04:25 PM
Yep It does. Don't understand why he says that. This config is the only way to map it that I have found to be working
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10-29-2015, 08:15 PM
Somehow, the plane mapping doesn't seem to work for me, I only get 50 % thrust when I'm doing it like that

Is the order important ? Like, first - then + ?
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10-29-2015, 08:19 PM (This post was last modified: 10-29-2015, 08:35 PM by Varanon.)
Geez, even left and right doesn't work as it should.

Fuck this, no flying for me. Honestly, this is ridiculous
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10-29-2015, 08:57 PM
(10-29-2015, 08:15 PM)Varanon link Wrote: Is the order important ? Like, first - then + ?


- first then + makes you throttle up when pushing forward. Doing + first then - reverses it. But yeah it's very weird and seems a bit broken the way it works
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10-29-2015, 10:55 PM (This post was last modified: 10-29-2015, 10:57 PM by Den.)
I have it mapped on the following ways as it was written in my thread: http://ciahome.net/forum/technical-suppo...ght-stick/

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Ok, let's sum it up. To have the full extent of one axis used on an action it has to be mapped this way:


- Airplanes
-- Throttle - both halves of the chosen axis have to be mapped on Throttle (Analogue)
-- Airbrake - both halves of the chosen axis have to be mapped on Brake (Analogue)

-Helicopter
Map both the + and -  of what ever axis your throttle is to "raise collective" and leave "lower collective" empty

(This way it gives you exact control over the collective in 0-100% range both with Standard and Advanced flight model. For example with Hummingbird a hover can be maintained with collective around 60% with SFM and around 50% with AFM.)
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10-31-2015, 10:00 AM
Just to make sure - is this how you have it set up Varanon?
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11-01-2015, 01:42 PM
Yes. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't
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06-02-2016, 09:39 AM
Varanon and I were chatting about this yesterday and by experimenting I found I have to map only one half of the axis, so Slider- OR Slider+ depending on which end you want to be Max Thrust.

If I map both, then it never gets high enough to take off, I have to hold W to do so and if I reduce the throttle once airborne I can't increase it again without pressing W.

No idea why though, as A3's controller sensitivity settings screen shows the input goes from -100 to +100 and Xpadder shows the raw values go from 0 to 65536. For those for whom mapping both parts of the axis works, it would be interesting to know what values you see in A3's controller sensitivity settings screen.
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06-06-2016, 03:49 PM
I had a look at my A3 .profile file and found it had a lot of redundant class Joystick entries, for sticks I no longer own and duplicates for the ones I currently use. So I deleted them and mapped my joystick in A3 again, with Slider- AND + mapped to plane thrust and after that I was actually able to takeoff just using my throttle.


I'll have to keep testing to make sure it persists, particularly when I map the controls again in Win10 (the joystick has a different ID in Win8.1 and Win10, so it has to be mapped separately in each) but it might be worth cleaning your .profile file to see if that helps.
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