Trying to setup joystick

[DeadSmythe]

Hello,

I just got a joystick and am wanting to setup Vega Strike to use it. I took a look at the wiki, but it's way over my head. I have a Logitech Extreme 3D Pro. If anyone can help me out with bindings, or with understanding on how to do it myself, I would be very appreciative.

[AVBJim]

I am using the same joystick. First, in vssetup, set the joystick option to 3 Axis Joystick and Throttle. This will give you basic functionality. The throttle works and the twist handle rolls your ship. Buttons 11 and 12 have no assigned function.

To customize you buttons, open the vegastrike.config in the folder where your saved games go. Mine, on Ubuntu puts it in the ./vegastrike folder. It is a hidden folder, so you need to enable viewing hidden files and folders or use the -a option with the ls command in a terminal/terminal window to find it. With windows, the commands differ, refer to your documentation for proper commands. Once you have it open in a text editor, look for the <!-- #joy_throttle joy_t_a_rev joy_throttle_and_axis joy_axis joy_normal --> line. The lines immediately following it will be your binds for your buttons. You can copy and paste functions from the keybind section to customize the buttons.

Here is my setup,

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 <bind joystick="0" player="0" button="0" modifier="none" command="FireKey" />
    <bind joystick="0" button="1" modifier="none" command="ABKey" />
    <bind joystick="0" button="2" modifier="none" command="MissileKey" />

    <bind joystick="0" button="3" modifier="none" command="WeapSelKey" />
    <bind joystick="0" button="4" modifier="none" command="PickTargetKey" />
    <bind joystick="0" button="5" modifier="none" command="SubUnitTargetKey"/>
    <bind joystick="0" button="6" modifier="none" command="NearestHostileTargetKey"/>
    <bind joystick="0" button="7" modifier="none" command="LockTargetKey" />
    <bind joystick="0" button="8" modifier="none" command="ThrustLeft"/>
    <bind joystick="0" button="9" modifier="none" command="ThrustRight"/>
    <bind joystick="0" button="10" modifier="none" command="DecelKey" />
    <bind joystick="0" button="11" modifier="none" command="SheltonKey" />

    <axis name="x" joystick="0" axis="0" inverse="false" />
    <axis name="y" joystick="0" axis="1" inverse="false" />

I added buttons 10 and 11 to enable all buttons. I have not worked with the hat switches as I do not normally use them. Remember, in the file, button 0 is referring to the button labeled one on the joystick, so subtract 1 from the button label to get the right button in the file.

Hope this helped. Good Luck.

[DeadSmythe]

Well, the joystick doesn't work at all just plugged in. And windows 7 isn't allowing me to change the config file at all. Every time I try to save it wants me to save as a text file to my documents. I tried doing that and just pulling it to the folder to overwrite it, but it considered it a separate file. Removing the original config caused the game to not start. So I tried setting notepad to always run in administrator mode, made the changes you had and went to save, and got access denied. So I don't think the game wants me to play it.

Edit: should I just do a full uninstall/reinstall? Seems like maybe it didn't install correctly if the joystick doesn't work at all.

[AVBJim]

Ouch. Sounds like it is a security setup issue with Win 7. Re-installing the game may help. But, if Windows is blocking you from writing to files, it may be blocking read/write access to files that the game needs. I wish I could be more help, but I have not used a version of windows since XP and know nothing about setting up in Win 7. Hopefully, someone with win 7 knowledge will help you.

Good Luck

[strook]

Maybe you compiled without joystick Support.