Hotas setup for the upcoming Cliffs of Dover

[blampars]

Originally Posted by Royraiden

I tried mapping the hotas controls to fly the helicopter in Bad Company 2 but got no luck.What should I do?

That heli is a PITA to fly, btw You got the vietnam expansion?

First thing you need to do is make a new profile in CH CM for bad company with the hotas gear you want to use. save it.

open up bad company, anything you need to fly it that requires the keyboard you need to assign it a keyboard command. write these down if you can't remember them.

In CH CM, create a new command file (CM Editor button) and start filling in those commands you wrote down. an example not related to heli's --
Flaps_UP f
Weapon_One enter

*** The only thing you should be actually typing is the command description, as in Weapon_One or Flaps_UP. After that tab over past that thin light grey line in the editor and right click -> record defenition
then perform your keyboard key presses for that command. It'll insert them next to your description for you.

once you've got all your commands in the command file go to the program settings tab on CH CM, look for the command file input box and assign your bad company command file to it

Now if you click Button 1 on your combat stick, which should be the fire button, do the following:
un-check DX Mode
input boxes appear
in the Press input box under "Normal Action", right click
Select Insert command
A new window comes up which reads from the command file you created earlier with all your bad company keyboard commands in it, you can now select a command to execute when you press your joystick button 1 (just double click it)

You can do this for all of your buttons, and even assign multiple modes and shift keys this way. Landing/Takeoff, Combat, Bombing -- you get the picture?

The things you'll want to leave in DX mode are most likely your joystick, pedals, throttle axis's as you wont want those assigned to keyboard commands so you get a full range of motion when flying.

Hope this helped some and is clear enough, took me quite a while to figure it all out hehe

EDIT: forgot to add that once you've got your profile just how you think you want it, save it. Once saved, you need to download it to your hotas using the download map button. Once it's downloaded everything *should* work in game.

[SsSsSsSsSnake]

Originally Posted by blampars

dont use windows control panel, use ch control manager

thanks Blampars,thank goodness weve got you around I WAS UNSURE WETHER TO WAIT FOR THE PEDALS BEFORE LOADING THE CH MANAGER INCASE IT CONFUSED THINGS BUT SHOULD I GO AHEAD,THE PEDALS SHOULD BE HERE THIS WEEK BUT I GUESS IT WILL JUST ADD THEM? sorry just saw i had caps lock on,to ealy in morning to type it again your reply to Roy re BFbc2 is amazing,dont go anywhere please lol

[blampars]

Originally Posted by SsSsSsSsSnake

thanks Blampars,thank goodness weve got you around I WAS UNSURE WETHER TO WAIT FOR THE PEDALS BEFORE LOADING THE CH MANAGER INCASE IT CONFUSED THINGS BUT SHOULD I GO AHEAD,THE PEDALS SHOULD BE HERE THIS WEEK BUT I GUESS IT WILL JUST ADD THEM? sorry just saw i had caps lock on,to ealy in morning to type it again your reply to Roy re BFbc2 is amazing,dont go anywhere please lol

You can go ahead and configure what you have now, and add another device later. That's what I did while I was waiting for my stick to come. There's a button that looks like a Joystick with a green plus sign, that's the add device button.

Thanks for the kind words

[Royraiden]

Originally Posted by blampars

That heli is a PITA to fly, btw You got the vietnam expansion?

First thing you need to do is make a new profile in CH CM for bad company with the hotas gear you want to use. save it.

open up bad company, anything you need to fly it that requires the keyboard you need to assign it a keyboard command. write these down if you can't remember them.

In CH CM, create a new command file (CM Editor button) and start filling in those commands you wrote down. an example not related to heli's --
Flaps_UP f
Weapon_One enter

*** The only thing you should be actually typing is the command description, as in Weapon_One or Flaps_UP. After that tab over past that thin light grey line in the editor and right click -> record defenition
then perform your keyboard key presses for that command. It'll insert them next to your description for you.

once you've got all your commands in the command file go to the program settings tab on CH CM, look for the command file input box and assign your bad company command file to it

Now if you click Button 1 on your combat stick, which should be the fire button, do the following:
un-check DX Mode
input boxes appear
in the Press input box under "Normal Action", right click
Select Insert command
A new window comes up which reads from the command file you created earlier with all your bad company keyboard commands in it, you can now select a command to execute when you press your joystick button 1 (just double click it)

You can do this for all of your buttons, and even assign multiple modes and shift keys this way. Landing/Takeoff, Combat, Bombing -- you get the picture?

The things you'll want to leave in DX mode are most likely your joystick, pedals, throttle axis's as you wont want those assigned to keyboard commands so you get a full range of motion when flying.

Hope this helped some and is clear enough, took me quite a while to figure it all out hehe

EDIT: forgot to add that once you've got your profile just how you think you want it, save it. Once saved, you need to download it to your hotas using the download map button. Once it's downloaded everything *should* work in game.

That seems a bit more complicated,Ill do it tomorrow.Yes I have the Vietnam expansion and thats what I play the most.

[blampars]

Originally Posted by Royraiden

That seems a bit more complicated,Ill do it tomorrow.Yes I have the Vietnam expansion and thats what I play the most.

It's not so much complicated as it is time consuming. It all sounds complicated until you do it and then it's a relatively easy process. It just takes time to think out your keyboard commands, then enter them all into the command file, and then figure out how you want that mapped to your controllers.

Worth it though, in the end if it's a game you play a lot of.

[Royraiden]

You use steam Blampars?

[ghodan]

I think you should be able to configure your combatstick in Battlefield bad company 2 menu.
Did not try but the previus battlefield title: Battlefield 2 , i did configure a joystick to controle airplanes and heli's.

Maybe because you have 3 (or more?) usb game controlers connected: Ch combatstick, pedals , throttle quad.
And Battlefield can only detect 1 or 2 at most , you have a problem that you cant config your combat stick straight from the menu?

[Royraiden]

Originally Posted by ghodan

I think you should be able to configure your combatstick in Battlefield bad company 2 menu.
Did not try but the previus battlefield title: Battlefield 2 , i did configure a joystick to controle airplanes and heli's.

Maybe because you have 3 (or more?) usb game controlers connected: Ch combatstick, pedals , throttle quad.
And Battlefield can only detect 1 or 2 at most , you have a problem that you cant config your combat stick straight from the menu?

It doesnt work like that,I've tried.

[blampars]

Originally Posted by Royraiden

You use steam Blampars?

yes, I love steam!
I've requested you as a friend.

[ElAurens]

My CH gear for IL2 is configured with the in game interface.

It was easy, which the CH Contol Monitor certainly is not, and I don't have another program running in the background.