So I dug up my old flight stick. Works very nicely, and makes flying aircraft so much easier (like, feasible). I can land aircraft now! It's a shame that KSP only recognises the X and Y axes, so I don't get the rudder or throttle, but I can live with that. (I gather this is a Unity bug.)
Unfortunately when the stick is set to pitch and roll, which is what you want for aircraft flying, it's now pretty much useless for orbital manoeuvring. For that, I want pitch and yaw. I also want bigger dead zones, because as there's no self-righting impulse in space, if the stick is offset slightly my spacecraft start to spin. But in flight, I need them to be as small as possible. And while it's technically possible to fly a plane with rudder and elevators I don't actually know how.
And then there's rendezvous, EVA and münwalking, all of which require different joystick maps.
I know it's possible to change the joystick mapping by quicksaving, quitting, reloading the game, fiddling with the settings, and then quickloading again; but that's an incredible PITA. Is there any way to change the joystick map on-the-fly? Ideally I like to have several set up and switch between them --- hey, I have buttons on the flight stick to do that! --- but I'll live with what I can get.
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So I dug up my old flight stick. Works very nicely, and makes flying aircraft so much easier (like, feasible). I can land aircraft now! It's a shame that KSP only recognises the X and Y axes, so I don't get the rudder or throttle, but I can live with that. (I gather this is a Unity bug.)
Unfortunately when the stick is set to pitch and roll, which is what you want for aircraft flying, it's now pretty much useless for orbital manoeuvring. For that, I want pitch and yaw. I also want bigger dead zones, because as there's no self-righting impulse in space, if the stick is offset slightly my spacecraft start to spin. But in flight, I need them to be as small as possible. And while it's technically possible to fly a plane with rudder and elevators I don't actually know how.
And then there's rendezvous, EVA and münwalking, all of which require different joystick maps.
I know it's possible to change the joystick mapping by quicksaving, quitting, reloading the game, fiddling with the settings, and then quickloading again; but that's an incredible PITA. Is there any way to change the joystick map on-the-fly? Ideally I like to have several set up and switch between them --- hey, I have buttons on the flight stick to do that! --- but I'll live with what I can get.
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