Joystick settings for 'mouselook'?

BomberMacIsaac · 06-06-2004, 04:21 AM

Fellas,

Maybe you can help me with some issues. I have a Logitech Freedom 2.4 Cordless joystick since quite a while but find myself rarely using it. When I use it, it is great, but here are the issues I have that keep me from wanting to use it on a regular basis:

First, when not using the joystick I use the left shift key for ‘mouse look’ to look around the air from my plane in all directions obviously without changing my planes direction. When I use the joystick I seem to lose this option whether I leave the setting as is and go back to the mouse to look, or if I set ‘mouselook’ to a button on the joystick. Is there a way to set up the joystick so that I can hold a button in and look around with the joystick? Or even use the 8-way directional hat switch on the joystick to look around?

Second issue is this, and this is why I will post this in the Desert Combat section as well as the General Discussion forums. Is there a way to set things up so that the joystick is used for the airplanes but not for the helicopters? Though the joystick improves my handling of the jets, I am much more capable using the keyboard with the helicopters. I can simply just use the keyboard buttons and not touch the joystick, but the throttle on my joystick is such that finding perfect zero force is hard, so when I jump in a heli I may lift off before I hit the gas on the keyboard, or when I let up on the gas in the air, I may drop like a stone.

Any help anyone could give me with these issues would be a gigantic help. Thanks all. I appreciate it.

BomberMacIsaac

06-06-2004, 04:21 AM	#1 (permalink)
BomberMacIsaac Private Join Date: Apr 2003 Posts: 48	Joystick settings for 'mouselook'? Fellas, Maybe you can help me with some issues. I have a Logitech Freedom 2.4 Cordless joystick since quite a while but find myself rarely using it. When I use it, it is great, but here are the issues I have that keep me from wanting to use it on a regular basis: First, when not using the joystick I use the left shift key for ‘mouse look’ to look around the air from my plane in all directions obviously without changing my planes direction. When I use the joystick I seem to lose this option whether I leave the setting as is and go back to the mouse to look, or if I set ‘mouselook’ to a button on the joystick. Is there a way to set up the joystick so that I can hold a button in and look around with the joystick? Or even use the 8-way directional hat switch on the joystick to look around? Second issue is this, and this is why I will post this in the Desert Combat section as well as the General Discussion forums. Is there a way to set things up so that the joystick is used for the airplanes but not for the helicopters? Though the joystick improves my handling of the jets, I am much more capable using the keyboard with the helicopters. I can simply just use the keyboard buttons and not touch the joystick, but the throttle on my joystick is such that finding perfect zero force is hard, so when I jump in a heli I may lift off before I hit the gas on the keyboard, or when I let up on the gas in the air, I may drop like a stone. Any help anyone could give me with these issues would be a gigantic help. Thanks all. I appreciate it. BomberMacIsaac