LOMAC: Brakes on Rudder Pedals

[JRH147]

Great idea for a website!

Trying to get the pedals to work the brakes in LOMAC. I have the pedals set to press "W" - but it won't work if I hold the brakes down - all it does is press "w" twice (when I check it out in the key check part of the CH Manager)

Just starting to learn how to program the CH manager - what should I do to get it so that when I press the brakes down the W key is held down?

Thanks!

[Ding]

Instead of entering w in the Control Manager, enter HOLD w.

You can also enter NULL w if you ever need to map a key that just needs to be hit once and never should be held down (autopilot toggle, for instance).

[JNOV]

It's a little non-intuitive, but this will work (this is what I use for all games that have non-analogue toe brakes).

1. Uncheck the DirectX box for your toe-brake axis (or axes if you want to use both).

2. Select the Up/Down option (not the position option).

3. In the "Step" box, choose 1.

4. For the "Inc" key, select the sim's toe-brake key (e.g., "w").

5. For the "Dec" key, type in "NULL"

That should do it.

Ding: I think that if you're just sending one character, there is no need to use "HOLD", because the character is held by default. You need to use "HOLD" if you want multiple characters to be held. For example, if you wanted to hold down the KP8 and KP5 keys for a forward/up view, you would need to use "HOLD KP5 KP8." If you just used "KP5 KP8", it would send a single instance of KP5 and hold KP8.

[Spidey]

Ding is right.

"HOLD w" is the right command for LOMAC.

For something like JF18 where you just want to toggle it, you enter "NULL w"

[Spidey]

The best way to use Toe Brakes is if the game actually supports it like IL2 or Flight Simulator. The differential braking is great.

If it doesn't, you should use the CMS

CMS.B1 = ([JS3.A1 > 128] or [JS3.A2 >128]); // WHEEL BRAKES

That script for example checks to see if either the left pedal or right pedal is depressed more that 50% (128 is center). JS3 because JS1 is FS and JS2 is PT in my setup.

If it is, it will activate CMS.B1

And CMS.B1 is mapped to "HOLD w" in my map.