"Rocket mode" for joystick users?

[MitchS]

Hi, everyone.

I just bought a HOTAS joystick/throttle set up, and I'm really enjoying it while I'm learning SSTOs and spaceplanes. However, I'm stuck still using the keyboard for anything but spaceplanes--while planes use pitch and roll as their primary axes in flight and the joystick maps these to left/right and fore/aft stick, rockets use pitch and yaw as their primary axes in flight, and using fore/aft and twisting-of the stick doesn't make for a very ergonomic experience. On orbit, the intuitive "stick left to swing left" movement just initiates a spin around the long axis. Twisting the stick would be perfectly intuitive, however, for rolling a spacecraft. I guess I probably could get used to it, but considering how much of my flight time is spent on orbit vs. in atmosphere, I'd really like to have a way to toggle "swap yaw/roll inputs."

Does the "plane mode" mod work for joystick users?

...Side note, does anyone know how the control inputs were mapped for the Space Shuttle on orbit? I've never thought of it until now.

Thanks!

[foamyesque]

My own stick setup is twist for roll and left-right for yaw, since picked I up my habits in the WingCommander tradition. It's workable for planes, too.

[stibbons]

I have my stick permanently mapped to use the left-right axis for yaw as well, but that's probably because I spend almost all of my time flying rockets.

The Advanced Fly By Wire mod lets you set up joystick presets and switch between them in flight. Seems like the best (mod) option to easily switch between good setups for spaceplanes and rockets.

 

[pincushionman]

What you can do is take advantage of multiple axes assignments and different control modes.

As you can see in this image, I've set left-right on my stick to apply roll while in "staging" mode, but apply yaw when in "docking" mode, and the opposite for my twist. This is backwards from what you're going to want to do because you'll want to be able to stage while in "rocket mode" and are less likely to need to do so in "plane mode" (space bar is stage in staging but switches between rotation and translation in docking mode), but this is how you'd be able to switch on the fly using only the in-game options available to everybody.

[MitchS]

Bueller?

For some reason I was never notified of these replies! Thank you, everyone!

Edited January 19, 2017 by MitchS

[fourfa]

 

looks to be updated for 1.2.2, problem solved