A call out to Cougar owners?

[Rynthas]

Perhaps not the best forum to post in, but I recently picked up a TM HOTAS Cougar. Now I'm trying to get it to function correctly in ArmA (preferably with non-TM pedals). If any other ArmA playing cougar owners out there care to lend a hand, PM me (preferably with an IM screen name. I use Trillain, have 'em all).

ArmA doesn't recognize a lot of the whiz-bang buttons and dials correctly, as far as I can tell. I think I can circumvent it by programming the joystick, but a little help there would be appreciated.

[Ventura]

Greets,

I've been flying around the island,( unfortunatly is almost the only thing i can do smootly in AA) with the hotas with no key emulation and no problems.

Could you specify, maybe i can help.

Regards,

Tiago Pires

[RKSL-Rock]

Perhaps not the best forum to post in, but I recently picked up a TM HOTAS Cougar. Now I'm trying to get it to function correctly in ArmA (preferably with non-TM pedals). If any other ArmA playing cougar owners out there care to lend a hand, PM me (preferably with an IM screen name. I use Trillain, have 'em all).

ArmA doesn't recognize a lot of the whiz-bang buttons and dials correctly, as far as I can tell. I think I can circumvent it by programming the joystick, but a little help there would be appreciated.
You’ve assumed correctly that you need to program it. ***I use the Cougar HOTAS with CH pro (gameport) pedals quite happily in ArmA and OFP.

Programming is pretty simple just takes a little bit of time to work it out but once you do it really rewarding.

Here's a very basic profile that i use to play ArmA. ***Not all of the buttons are mapped but it means i can fly helicopters properly. ***All you need to do is load this up to the stick and it will work. ***If you have "Foxy" installed open it in there and you can edit it with the key GUI system. ***Just follow the tutorials to get a basic understanding of what the stick can do and how to customise it yourself.

DOWNLOAD - HOTAS Profile (http://www.rkslstudios.info/FILES/favours/HOTAS_Basic_ArmA_Profile.rar)

[Rynthas]

Yeah, I'd tried programming it, but it didn't respond as expected. Granted, it was only a couple minor things...

I also bought some Saitek pedals to go with it, but since they're USB I had to do a PPJoy kludge to get both working with ArmA. Right now it looks like I've got 3 dead buttons and a broken wheel on my Cougar, and with the half-working PPJoy stuff I've got to do to get it all running, I'm seriously debating just RMAing the lot as a return instead of a replacement and picking up a second Sidewinder FF joystick. I figure if I'm going to have to use PPJoy, I may as well do it on the cheap and just use my current joystick as a throttle and possibly pedal replacement.

Basically, I was wanting to map a few things to the Cougar's throttle -- Enter (action key) to the IFF/Radio forward button, and use the Antenna wheel the same as a mouse wheel. Sadly, the Antenna wheel is broken...and the forward position is the only working button out of the 4 possibles on the IFF/Radio switch.