My apologies if this is not the right place to post this, it is my first forum post. I have been playing with with duel Thrustmaster 16000 joysticks for several months without a problem. I just changed some of the bindings for my thrusters and now my throttle is not working properly. I have to hold the stick forward or backwards to generate thrust. If I release the stick and allow it to return to "zero", the thrust goes to zero. I reset and reentered all my bindings and it did not help. I have attached a pic of my current thrust settings. Any suggestions would be appreciated!
Throttle not working when joystick is released.
- Thread starter vordac1
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Was a good guess. I think this is the case.
That was for the right stick. I was using the left as the throttle. It was all fine until I tried to bind some new thruster controls
try forward only instead of full range
Well, that's what your binds show. You have throttle bound to the stick's Y axis, that is fore/back. Personally, I prefer the Z axis, but that's your setup. Which means that the stick position determines the throttle setting.
So, reading your description, it works as set up.
What would you like the behaviour to be instead?
So, reading your description, it works as set up.
What would you like the behaviour to be instead?
The slider throttle settings work normally but that is too difficult to us in a two stick setup
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Note that I have the Y axis bound to throttle on the left stick but om my right stick the Y axis is for pitch. Previously, I could let stick to return to the zero position and the throttle would maintain its setting, it would not return to zero. I would like to reestablish that setup. Having to hold it forward is not a viable option for me. I saw reddit where an ED player had the two stick setup just like me, with the left stick Y axis as throttle. He said that when he "set it to digital instead of analog" it would maintain the throttle speed when he released the stick, just as mine had been doing until last night. I must have accidentally "set it to digital" months ago and forgotten how I did it.
Thanks, but I tried that. Still have to hold the stick forward or backwards
Not at my gaming rig right now - but expand (the "+" sign) both the throttle settings and the "flight thrust" settings, there might be something hiding there.
Although I, too, have trouble finding the reason for this setting - but you do you.
As long as you have the throttle still bound to the analog stick, that's working as intended. Last input signal rules, so if you set the throttle (via digital, additonal button or whatever) to a certain value and then move the analog control, the analog control takes over. I use this effect in my setup (dual virpils) with the throttle mapped to both the left stick Z axis (analog) and the right stick thumbwheel (digital in 12.5% increments). Thumbwheel when I'm lazy, but a twist at the left stick and I get fine control for combat or manual landing/take off.
So if you want the throttle to only work with the digital input, you have to unbind the stick from the analog axis.
Thank you! Your explanation makes sense. But I am still wondering what I did in my earlier settings that allowed this scenario:
1) Push stick forward for certain amount of time: and speed increases to X mps (as intended?)
2) Release stick (allow to go neutral/zero postion): speed remains at X mps (not as intended?)
3) Pull stick back and speed decreases (as intended?)
4) If backward pull on stick is maintained: speed reverses to -X mps (as intended?)
5) If stick is released: speed remains at -X mps (not as intended?)
1) Push stick forward for certain amount of time: and speed increases to X mps (as intended?)
2) Release stick (allow to go neutral/zero postion): speed remains at X mps (not as intended?)
3) Pull stick back and speed decreases (as intended?)
4) If backward pull on stick is maintained: speed reverses to -X mps (as intended?)
5) If stick is released: speed remains at -X mps (not as intended?)
In that case:
That basically mimics the default (IIRC) behaviour of the XBox controller, where right trigger is increase throttle, left trigger is decrease throttle (and no trigger is stay at that speed - if you fly FA on). Don't worry about "as intended" - the controls in ED are intended to be as variable as possible to match your specific setup and preferences.
And just in case you want to play around with the settings a bit more: read Strontium Dog's pinned thread (right at the top of this subforum) with respect to (re-) naming your bindings and backing them up.
- unbind throttle axis
- bind "increase throttle" to stick push forwards (stick will be treated as digital input in that case - playing with the deadzone migth improve handling somewhat)
- bind "decrease throttle" to stick push backwards
- set increments to whatever you like ("continuous" is proabably a good choice)
That basically mimics the default (IIRC) behaviour of the XBox controller, where right trigger is increase throttle, left trigger is decrease throttle (and no trigger is stay at that speed - if you fly FA on). Don't worry about "as intended" - the controls in ED are intended to be as variable as possible to match your specific setup and preferences.
And just in case you want to play around with the settings a bit more: read Strontium Dog's pinned thread (right at the top of this subforum) with respect to (re-) naming your bindings and backing them up.