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Originally Posted by Voyager
So, I want to add trim control to my controller setup, for the purposes of trimming the plane*. I'd like to use it with both Il-2:1946 and CoD. I'm experimenting with using the joystick's throttle slider as the elevator trim, but it's seeming to be even harder to get the trim right than with the keyboard. Anyone have any suggestions on what would work for this?
Harry Voyager
*I don't know about anybody else, but I find it rather hilarious that I have to specify that it is specifically for trim control
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That's not a good control for static elevator trim (I assume that is the one your talking about). But you could make it work. You could put some marking along side the slider. Say for climb, dive and cruise settings. But that means you have to move your head down to see the notches line up with the slider. Not so good. Or you could write up a glovepie script to generate an audible response. In your script, basically break the slider axis up into segments, then as you move the slider up or down, the tone (e.g., midi bass drum) goes off once as you slide to the next segment on the axis. This could work I suppose.
Really though, slider not a good choice for static elevator trim. Better options: button up/button down, notch style rotary dial, ministick off a gamepad, povhat...you could make any of these work much better for you I think because they give you discrete feedback as you manipulate them. Whereas slider you using guesswork without some kind of feed back to tell you were your at.