Best joystick mapping for UI Panels

Mheen

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I have an X-55 and can't seem to come up with a really quick way to access and navigate the UI Panels. Specifically the navigation and systems panels on the left and right side.

What do others with HOTAS setups use? I'd like one set of buttons for accessing the panels and another set for navigating the menus and tabs within them.

Thanks for the help.
 

Antaniserse

Antaniserse
Mheen said:
I have an X-55 and can't seem to come up with a really quick way to access and navigate the UI Panels. Specifically the navigation and systems panels on the left and right side.

What do others with HOTAS setups use? I'd like one set of buttons for accessing the panels and another set for navigating the menus and tabs within them.

Thanks for the help.
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In my X-52 i use the throttle mouse wheel to access the panels (wheel up-> left panel, wheel down->right panel) and then the hats on the stick to navigate them
After a short while it became second nature and very fast for me, and i don't need to constantly keep a button pressed like in the default setup, which i didn't like
Now, the X-52 have the wheel sitting right under the middle finger, very accessible, but the X-55 has that moved on the side, which is a bit worse... as an alternative, you may try to map the little slider in 3 digital bands (with the profiler software) so that moving it to the very left and right activates a panel, while returning it in the middle closes them
 

robdood

robdood
The default on my X52 was hold pinkie button, then press left/right on the lowest/centre hat switch.. Then use the same hat to navigate, with the upper/left hand hat switch to cycle tabs.. I found that brilliant and very quick.

Surprised that the X55 default mapping isn't the same tbh!
 

Antaniserse

Antaniserse
robdood said:
The default on my X52 was hold pinkie button, then press left/right on the lowest/centre hat switch.. Then use the same hat to navigate, with the upper/left hand hat switch to cycle tabs.. I found that brilliant and very quick.

Surprised that the X55 default mapping isn't the same tbh!
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It might be the same actually, but i guess the OP is searching for something different.
Personally, the "keep the pinky down until you are done" is what puts me off; fine for some quick operation, but annoying when you have to navigate the screens for longer... i tried that alternate setup and found that easier for me (quick flick on the wheel opens the panel, anothe quick flick closes it) and i have now the pinky button free to use as a fast Flight Assist ON/OFF switch

No, when i finally could wrap my hands around an Oculus Rift CV that will be a whole problem solved ;)
 

forger

forger
this is how i used x55, that's until the stick died and i had to return it :)
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now i use keypad for navigation and there is 4 direction button (like on gamepads) and that works fine for now, but i am looking in getting x55 back, throttle is what i really miss now ;)
 

Viking84

Viking84
I use the following on my Warthog:

Throttle Hat:
Up = Nav Panel
Down = Systems Panel
Left = Tab Left
Right = Tab Right
Push/Center = Panel focus (if I want to choose a different panel than the two above)

And then I use a joystick hat for navigating the menus themselves (up/down, left/right), and the trigger to "accept".

Very quick, and allows me to do everything without changing my hand positioning on throttle and stick.
 
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Non Grata

Non Grata
Mheen said:
I have an X-55 and can't seem to come up with a really quick way to access and navigate the UI Panels. Specifically the navigation and systems panels on the left and right side.

What do others with HOTAS setups use? I'd like one set of buttons for accessing the panels and another set for navigating the menus and tabs within them.

Thanks for the help.
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I do it with three hats. The second and third hats can have different functions assigned to them when not viewing the panels.

1.
L Left panel
R Right panel
U UI Focus (to go back to the forward view)

2.
L Prev tab
R Next tab
U Up
D Down

3.
L Decr value
R Incr value
U Enter
 

CATPAIN KIRK

CATPAIN KIRK
This is a slightly outdated version of my Warthog bindings:

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I'm using a rift and before that, I used TrackIR, so I activate the panels by looking at them.
 

HoshiQaVam

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I use two of the hats on the joystick, personally. The castle hat does up/down and select left/right, which the top-left hat does menu left/right.

Additionally, I use the red button on top-right side of the joystick and then the castle hat left/right to pick which UI window to focus on as well.

In addition to that, I have Switch 1 on the throttle mapped to the UI window on the left so that I can quickly get the contacts and nav windows.

As if that isn't already enough, I also have the commands "ship, target station" mapped with voice attack, which automatically opens the left UI window, scrolls to targets, and locks onto the station and then closes the UI window. As well as "ship, request docking clearance" which automatically opens the left UI, selects the station, selects request docking, then closes the UI.

Needless to say, I have a few options ;)

I'm also in the process of building a custom dashboard with modular control panels for Elite, so a lot of the more mundane controls like landing gear, radar range, ship lights, and hyperspace, will be handled by the dash - so i'll be able to free up all my X55 throttle and joystick buttons for more specific use. All Joystick buttons will be about firing weapons and targeting, while all the throttle buttons will be about controlling the various UI screens.
 

Ttaskmaster

T
I have keypad 7, 8, 9 and 5 mapped to the left, comms, right and scanner panels respectively. You could have a 4-way hat assigned to those numbers and use that to access each one. A second hat would handle the navigation and use the trigger to select.
 

katheb

K
Not sure if it is the best but I use this.

Voice command to enter the left main right panels

HAT to navigate in a panel.

Rudder to navigate between tabs.

Trigger 1 to accept.
 

deMangler

deMangler
I use the the throttle buttons on the X-55 to navigate the menus. Top hat for directions, bottom spin button for Enter. Pinky spin wheel for tabs.
I use the left and right buttons on the throttle, marked I and H, for activating the left and right panels.
I tried a few configs but have stuck with this one for a few weeks now. It seems just right.
 
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