evilC, on 08 August 2015 - 06:46 AM, said:
Well I don't (and never have) aim with joystick, but if / when "absolute" stick aiming mode ever works properly in MWO, then I may consider it, as that has the potential to be as good as / better than mouse aiming.
That's another reason that this mod is on the shelf at the moment - MWO still does not properly support joystick.
Howdy evil, been a while. No dice on native absolute, and I realized after sending my last message to Matthew Craig that he was no longer working there, so that's a lost cause and a wasted opportunity.
However, I recently started playing around with FreePIE, to get mouse emulation working in Star Citizen because TARGET no longer worked there and I wanted to do some experimentation with my stick. After getting it working there, I decided to test in in MWO and low and behold it works, and it works well.
It piggybacks off vJoy, so I just used UJR since I already had it handy. Once the axes were recognized in UJR/vJoy, run this FreePIE script and it's working.
http://andersmalmgre...hub.io/FreePIE/ <--FreePIE download link
mouse.deltaX = filters.delta(joystick[0].x) / 1.4
mouse.deltaY = -filters.delta(joystick[0].y) / 2.8
All that is needed are the above 2 lines of code. The numeric values at the end are gain. Lower numbers is higher gain. Anyone trying this will likely need to play with those numbers to get the gain where you do not overrun the boundaries of mech movement and cause the reticule to lose center. I'm not good at python, but you can also use multiplication for the gain values that may allow ratios other than 2:1. I've spent very little time trying to dial this in, but it's relevant so thought I'd share.
I did test it to see if it conflicts with TrackIR, which sadly it does in the same way TARGET mouse emulation does, rendering it unusable.
Not sure if I should post this here or not, but of course another way absolute zero-order can be achieved with a stick is to use a mouse sensor on a joystick gimbals, which is what I *almost did in 2012 when I made my mechstick. Here's a current gimbals I'm working on that are such a creature, made from a gutted G502.
http://imgur.com/a/jTw6H
Edited by Loc Nar, 16 August 2015 - 10:40 AM.