I've just purchased a Logitech Attack 3 usb joystick and it
works great with Flightgear.
It has 11 button and a throttle control.
I have attatched an xml file for inclusion into Flightgear.
The buttons are as follows:
Trigger Button 0 : Brakes
Button 3 : Elevator trim up
Button 2 : Elevator trim down
button 6 : Elevators up
button 7 : Elevators down
button 8 : Brake left
button 9: Brake right
With buttons 11 - Gear up
Button - 10 Gear down
joystick configuration for a Wingman Force 3D USB.
mfranz:
This driver is supposed to work for the non-USB versions, too, so
I'm replacing the non-USB driver with this one, and add its <name>s
here. If it turns out that we need a separate driver, it's better to
derive it from this file, as this is adapted to the newest methods
(nasal wrappers, etc.), while the old driver was only partly functional.
The proper file ( the one with axis assignment set correctly for all OSes ) was too quickly removed, certainly because of its -win suffix.
I merged the good things in one file, discarding the problematic ones.
- to support "old-style" gear/flap control (operation as long as button
pressed/lever pushed -> b29/hurricane), let bindings not only report
up/down, but up (-1), stop (0), down (1).
- let controls.flapsDown() ignore "stop" so as to remain compatible with
prior behavior
- adapt all joysticks/aircraft (sigh)
- some minor cosmetics in joystick configs, such as indentation fixes
controls in the cockpit vs. which wheels they apply to. FlightGear now
sets /controls/gear/brake-left, /controls/gear/brake-right, and
/controls/gear/brake-parking. It should be up to the FDM to sort out
which wheels under which circumstances are affected by these controls
and ultimately what happens to the physical motion of the aircraft.
First, I've attached a copy of the Logitech WingMan Force 3D XML
file "wingman-force-3d.xml" I put together after getting one of
these for Christmas. (It would be nice if the force feedback worked,
but I haven't had time to play with it that much. Come to think about
it I'm not even sure forece feedback works under Linux in general.)
Besides providing the new file I also edited the higher-level
/FlightGear/joysticks.xml file to add the description for this joystick
as follows:
diff -n joysticks.xml_orig joysticks.xml
a22 1
<js-named include="Input/Joysticks/Logitech/wingman-force-3d.xml"/>
here's the promised patch:
- make throttle work for 8 engines (b52)
- resolve multiple property bindings (simply stating
more than one property per binding doesn't do anything;
this has to be written as two bindings; didn't touch
"Reset View" button in X45, though)
- add $Id$ lines
- adjust step size in "my" joystick file (X8-30) to
work best on a 2.4GHz computer :->
I didn't add entries for propeller related properties, such as mixture, prop-pitch, and I didn't change the boost property. These are still for at most two engines.
I've got nice joystick Logitech WingMan Force and found no file for it
in FG 0.8. If anyone interested, I offer it here. It is based on
Logitech WingMan Extreme configuration, but there are less axes (no
rudder:() and more (9!) buttons (actually, I don't use them all). Hope
it is useful.
> It has more or less the same layout than the one for the MS Sidewinder
> Force.
>
> There is already a profile for this joystick in the base package but
> it differs in the axes layout : axes 2 & 3 are inverted and the hat is
> at 6&7 instead of 5&6. I think this is a Linux/Windows difference.
> As the reported name is different, the two profiles can coexist.
