Setting up forwards and backwards thrust axes

[Monolith Preacher]

So I use pedals for my forwards and backwards thrust, but I've had a problem I've been unable to sort out. You can put thrust on one axis and throttle on another, but it makes it awkward to zero my thrust. I've got to keep my feet both dead centre on each axis to do so, and this makes FA Off rather tricky to manage. There's no option to bind "forwards" and "reverse" as their own axes in the ELITE control scheme. I kinda see that as a large oversight, but there's nothing to be done about it at this point as I doubt it's an issue for most people so I'm not gonna raise it as a gameplay issue when there's likely to be little support.

 

[Morbad]

I posted about this issue back in 2014. Nothing was ever done.

Anyway, I ended up making a little script for the CH Control Manager to combine my toe breaks into one centering axis.

 

[Monolith Preacher]

Wow, sounds good. I use CH Pro Pedals myself, and never knew it had a control manager. Care to link to the script?

 

[Morbad]

Wow, sounds good. I use CH Pro Pedals myself, and never knew it had a control manager. Care to link to the script?

You'll need the actual CMCC software, available here: http://www.chproducts.com/files/chproducts/control_manager-v4.55a.exe

This is the script.

// CMS Script File
//
//     Game Title: Elite: Dangerous
//     Written By: Morbad
//           Date: 01/11/2015
//
script
%define PEDAL_L js3.a1
%define PEDAL_R js3.a2
%define TROTTLE_POSITION cms.a1
cms.a1 = (128 + (PEDAL_R/2)) - ((PEDAL_L + 1) / 2);
endScript

Once that is in your map, you'll need to set the a1 axis you created to a DX device and axis, and then make sure the toe breaks are set to that device as well.

The CMCC documentation is pretty decent and there are guides all over the place.

Edit -- an elaboration...

Both toe breaks set to same device:

The axis enabled by the script: