Creating Differential Braking

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Creating Differential Braking

Postby Capt._Viper » Fri Jan 07, 2011 4:32 pm

What does it take to make steering brakes that can be controled by tuning the grip on my joy stick?
I can steer by using keys on the keyboard, but I want more control by twist-steer.  Any thoughts?  :-?
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Re: Creating Differential Braking

Postby 1olehippy » Fri Jan 07, 2011 6:13 pm

Open aircraft cfg file,  scroll down to [brakes] and add this line

differential_braking_scale = 1.0

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Re: Creating Differential Braking

Postby Capt._Viper » Fri Jan 07, 2011 7:18 pm

Did that before, didn't work.
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Re: Creating Differential Braking

Postby dave3cu » Fri Jan 07, 2011 10:01 pm

As Dave said, adding 'differential_braking_scale = 1.0' will provide automatic differential braking in the direction you have your rudder control turned. Turn the rudder and apply your normal brake control. ( the 'brake' message changes to 'differential brake')

If what your looking for is proportional differential braking, that can be done by assigning a seperate axis control for each brake. Don't see how you can do that with the twist as that is a single axis.

Some joystick programming software, like Saitek's SST, allows you to program an axis to emulate 2 key presses which you could assign to L and R brake, but that provides on-off braking like the normal brake key presses. If you have a registered (payed for) install of FSUIPC, I believe you do the same.

On the other hand, are you simply looking for a better way to steer planes with free swiveling tail wheels, like the DC-3? That can be done with an edit in the aircraft.cfg file [contact_points] section. It makes the wheel steerable, connected to the rudder control so no diff. braking is required.

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