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Alright just a technical question:

Why does free looking in vehicles lock out all other command inputs? Are you capable of bypassing it?

I had this, in my mind, awesome setup where mouse is rudder control and joystick contains the freelook button... I can free look near perfectly now... its just I can't fly in anything other than a straigh line and free look.

Then I also noticed Mosquill's TrackIR Havok in CA and wonder if that by passed it or was just from the ground up new.

I wondered that too, when I want to look around I have to up speed a bit and point the mouse up in a jet. I assume its suicidal when piloting an attack copter.

How about xPadder? Should work.

Xpadder.com

goguapsy wrote:How about xPadder? Should work.

Xpadder.com

how is that related or solving the problem?

supahpingi wrote:how is that related or solving the problem?

Assign such a movement/button/whatever to include both Free-look button and direction of view...

I mean, I think the OP is saying that you can't assign a free-look button to a joystick, right?

Or whatever else similar, I'm pretty sure you can do that with xpadder.

Freelook locks out all controls while flying, which is an issue i believe the "TrackIR hack" is meant to fix in the future. As far as i know, that hack is also FreeTrack compatible. ^_^

Only locks out mouse (and possibly joystick movement?), iirc.
Keyboard controls like WASD + arrow keys do still work.

If it locks out joystick movement too, you could probably pull a workaround by assigning the look-movement to a HAT switch or something.

Celestial1 wrote:Only locks out mouse (and possibly joystick movement?), iirc.
Keyboard controls like WASD + arrow keys do still work.

If it locks out joystick movement too, you could probably pull a workaround by assigning the look-movement to a HAT switch or something.

Or you could assign joystick and mouse movements to arrow-keys as a work-around with xpadder.

goguapsy wrote:Or you could assign joystick and mouse movements to arrow-keys as a work-around with xpadder.

By making the joystick have digital outputs you lose analogue control. Arrow keys are only off or on iirc.

What is this HAT switch?

ytman wrote:By making the joystick have digital outputs you lose analogue control. Arrow keys are only off or on iirc.

What is this HAT switch?

HAT switch is that POV button on top of the joystick.

Ex.


Joystick elements: #1 Stick; #2 Base; #3 Trigger; #4 Extra buttons; #5 Autofire switch; #6 Throttle; #7 Hat Switch (POV Hat); #8 Suction Cup


And I think with xpadder you can assign "analog" mode, something like that. If not, all you gotta do is don't use analog mode on free-look!