Joystick Throttle inverted - Should be simple to fix [Archive]

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Foxdie

Nov 29 2001, 22:41

Both planes and choppers are affected, I move my throttle to minimum and the chopper rises / plane accelerates.

This should be relatively simple to fix, just code in another invert so it counteracts this.

This is of course assuming this bug isn't local to just me. I have a Saitek USB Cyborg 3D Gold Joystick,

system specs are geforce 3, athlon 1ghz, 256 ram, RAID 0 2x hard disks, Abit KT7-RAID mobo, 2 network cards.

Anyone else having the same bug affect them?

Nov 29 2001, 23:24

I get that behaviour, but I thought that was how the throttle on helicopters (not sure about planes) were... ne1 care to comment?

zovirl

Nov 30 2001, 00:41

Actually, on helicopters the collective goes vertically up and down. But with a joystick, the closest you get is using the throttle and having it reversed. So, you can debate whether it is a bug or not. If they put the throttle back to normal it would be the same problem with choppers. Would be nice if they did this:

Put the throttle back to normal (forward = more power)
Add an option to reverse it for choppers.

169th Wolverine

Jan 4 2002, 00:29

I use the Saitek X45 and the throttle works the same way as described in the earlier posts, but what I would like to know is why I can get more height in the helicopters using the joystick then using the keyboard. I dont think that ppl should be at a disadvantage for using the keyboard instead of the joystick. Its just more convinent for me to use keyboard and mouse all the time instead of switching back and forth..

John C Flett

Jan 4 2002, 10:37

It may have ( probably has ) changed since version 1.0 but the flight model was totally different for keyboard mouse. A simpler arcade model to allow for the limitations of the controls. Joysticks gave a more realistic flight model which included for more freedom of movement but also more of the problems associated with flight.

I don't know about advantages or disadvantages. You can do more but you have to work more with the joystick. It might be nice to allow keyboard users to try the advanced flight model though.