Swap input controls on the fly

[democedes]

I have to change the configuration for my joystick every time I switch from flying spacecraft to aircraft to invert the pitch axis and swap from yaw to the roll axis. Is there a way to swap input controls without exiting to the main menu? Or is there a way to enable throttle control when in docking mode? (I always dock in staging mode) Or am I missing something more obvious?

[WWEdeadman]

As far as I know the answer to all of that is no. Unless there's a mod for that, that I don't know of, since I don't play with a joystick.

[Vanamonde]

Welcome to the forum, democedes. And by the way, your thread has been moved to the how-to section, where it is more likely to be seen by people who might be able to answer your question.

[Belisarius]

I just uploaded a plugin to swap roll and yaw axes on the fly. It doesn't invert pitch, but I can add an option to do that tomorrow.

Edit: It can now invert pitch, you just have to "pitch_invert = false" to "pitch_invert = true" in settings.cfg, and remember to set your axes the way you'd like rockets to control.

http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/threads/90034-WIP-PLUGIN-Aeroplane-Mode-a-small-plugin-to-swap-roll-and-yaw-axes-on-the-fly

Edited August 9, 2014 by Belisarius

[GoatRider]

Nice, I might use that. Now if only I can figure out how to get the throttle to go from 0-100 instead of 5-95 I'll be all set.

[Claw]

Nice, I might use that. Now if only I can figure out how to get the throttle to go from 0-100 instead of 5-95 I'll be all set.

This one is a bit trickier. Unity seems to have some problems/bugs with certain joysticks. It likes to grab raw inputs, so sometimes no matter how much fiddling and calibration you do it just won't go for some joysticks.

[GoatRider]

This one is a bit trickier. Unity seems to have some problems/bugs with certain joysticks. It likes to grab raw inputs, so sometimes no matter how much fiddling and calibration you do it just won't go for some joysticks.

That's what I understand. I hear there's a 3rd party joystick driver, but it entails taking down security to make it work and it's not that important to me yet.

BTW: the joystick I'm using is from my RealFlight R/C flight simulator. Using that, my model helicopter reflexes take over and I can hover a lander.