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[LuseKofte]

Leone, you are a crazy man with a lot of time (and money) to spare? LOL

I have worked and bought stuff 10 years to afford and have time for this setup. I earn good money but a house where I live cost 649600 €
And to day I bought a new car since the one we have is  too small for 5 a peugot 206 and a 3 seater Fiat Scudo. It cost 28420€
It is my firs newish car I ever bought
So paying your bills and get what you need is pretty expensive, food is unbelievable expencive.
So my guess is that I got the same budget as anyone else around for fun. My wife know me as a person that need to spend time on mountains and need to fly simulators. So she let me
I do not sell equipment I do not use anymore, I give them to people. It is not show off it is just facts. I work in a un secure and un safe high risk branch, I never know how long and how many hours. High risk decisions and consequences. A lot of hours in a short time and a lot of spare time in-between
You simply don´t get anything for free, I got arthritis caused by endless hours and years wet and cold work. There is always a price to pay.
My choises have made some times very little food on the table to my kids and other times much. I never know, and that is the thing I like.
It is all a challenge

[helldog]

i have had same problem and i found this software i hope this sort you issue out
i am sorry i can not post the link here but just serch for :
YaDeLi - "Yet another Device Link for IL-2

[Germy66]

That's ony possibility, but I think that for IL-2 things should be much easier.
The Joysticks build up an array object within the "com.maddox.rts.Joy" class and there are some quite self explaining static limits set:

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  public static final int AMOUNTJOY = 4;
  public static final int AMOUNTAXE = 8;
  public static final int AMOUNTPOV = 4;
With a little luck this should be easily customizable (with the possibility to set custom limits from conf.ini).
Needs just some programming and, most of all, testing.

Best regards - Mike

Im very very lucky if this will working on my 4.09 Version.
has this already been tested?
can you make class-files to test.
and what changes in the conf.ini i must do?

[Germy66]

I want to bring back an old important topic

Is it possible to increase IL 2 ability to recognize 5 USB devices. ?
I just remembered why I played les and less IL 2, I got 5 USB devices I spent a lot of time and money to get. And IL 2 recognize only 3 or 4 of them.
If this game could recognize all of my 5 devices I will be a slave to this community and sell my soul to its benefit.

can someone help to doing this for 4.09/UP2 Version?

That's ony possibility, but I think that for IL-2 things should be much easier.
The Joysticks build up an array object within the "com.maddox.rts.Joy" class and there are some quite self explaining static limits set:

Code: [Select]

  public static final int AMOUNTJOY = 4;
  public static final int AMOUNTAXE = 8;
  public static final int AMOUNTPOV = 4;
With a little luck this should be easily customizable (with the possibility to set custom limits from conf.ini).
Needs just some programming and, most of all, testing.

Best regards - Mike

I Need more Information what to write in conf.ini

[western0221]

About the term of this topic....

no conf.ini , no solution in players' side.

Only possible to do it is a modder, but as Mike said, 1946's joy program code is bad and headache one, loss of time and effort.

[Germy66]

Yes you are right im a stupid player

[SAS~GJE52]

This topic has been floating around for some time now. If this is possible, then it would rank as one of the best mods that SAS have ever added to this game....... and looking at what SAS modders have brought to the community over the years that is really saying something....

IMHO the ability to add more than four controllers is the only thing that newer flight/combat sims have over IL2.

G;

[SAS~Storebror]

The biggest problem is to develop this "blindly", since I don't have that many controllers.

Best regards - Mike

[SAS~GJE52]

I doubt that you would be short of beta testers though......

[SAS~Storebror]

Frankly I'm wondering where this comes from.
In IL-2 you can have 4 controllers at the moment.
I for one have a Saitek X-52 Pro and a Saitek TPM attached and once had an additional set of rudder pedals.
If I would have wished for more buttons, I could have added some game controller on top.
In my case with the 3 devices alone, it's been 13 axis, 23 buttons, 3 8-way hat switches and 9 physical switches.
I only have two hands and two feet, can't imagine what I'd need more for.

But even if so, and even taking custom cockpit designs into account, I'm still wondering...
The theoretical limit for a DirectInput device is 8 axis, 128 buttons and one native full-range POV switch.
With 4 devices this is 32 axis, 512 buttons or switches and 4 native POV hat switches.
Even if I take the cheapest custom chip for building such devices (JW24A8L, 4 Axis, 16 Buttons) this would give me 16 axis and 64 buttons.
Using the more sophisticated BU0836 chip you get 8 axis, 32 buttons and a hat switch per controller, that's 32 axis, 128 buttons and 4 hat switches in total!

So far I only know of 3 users having asked for this and from a technical point of view I'm afraid that there's a design flaw in a cockpit when you don't get along with the limits we currently have.

Best regards - Mike

[SAS~GJE52]

The component parts of the virtual jet cockpit rig that I have been putting together, which is far from "sophisticated" by any stretch of the imagination, are shown below.....










Sadly, although this is pretty basic, it comprises 5 devices, so IL2 will not see the second of the Cougar "Multi Function Display" (MFD) units. These MFD units are effectively little more than replacements for keyboard assigned commands, but it helps to create the illusion of a real "flight Simulator". I would also like to add some other controllers - trim wheel, etc-  as the design develops. I know there are interface devices that are available for dedicated designs, but having the ability to simply "plug and play" additional controllers via a USB port would open this up to everyone.

The Track IR, keyboard and mouse, however, are recognized.

Before you say this is a a small "niche market", none of these controllers/interfaces are very expensive (compared to the cost of a suitable PC and screen(s) needed to get the most out of the game that we now have), so I am sure I am not alone in this.


 

G;

[SAS~Storebror]

Okay, I see.
So I'll put that back on the huge "todo" pile and try to find a way to kick up the device ID for my stick combo.

Best regards - Mike