Oolite Bulletins

Hi commanders,

Was wondering if anyone knows about the problem with the pitch and/roll not zeroing when the stick is in neutral position.
I've been having the problem since upgrading from V1.65 early last year. It has been the same in all the 1.7 series. On 1.74.3 now.
Though re booting the game a few times usually sorted it.

Now it's giving me a new one where it will only give me 1/3 of the deflection on pitch and roll??
Try getting out of a scrap with that sort of manouverability!

I know it's not the stick as it tests fine and works perfect on my other flight simm games

Two issues:
1) Joystick Not Centering;
2) Reduced Manuverability.

#2 is actually the easy one. You've likely engaged precision mode. I'll find you a link here in a minute and edit it in... Simply toggle it again, and you'll be back to normal.

#1 might be a bit harder, as I know both of my joysticks center just fine in-game. It may be that you are needing to program a larger "dead spot" for your joystick, which can be done through the joystick software usually. I'd start there, and let us know if that improves things.

Hi Cheyd,

Ye these were my first thoughts aswell. But neither made any difference.

I was wondering if there might be something in the coding about how oolite handles a joy stick that I could check out the values of?
Like if the dead spot is a zero value or the max deflection is correct?

Hi Alex.

I use the Logitech Attack 3 and the non-centering problem is very occasional.
I have to re-calibrate using the Windows tool and that sorts it... the Logitech software doesn't seem to help at all.
But as I say, it's only very occasional with my stick, which is a bit old now, and it has taken a bashing so I tend to forgive it.
I wish the 'dead zone' was adjustable, as that is probably the fault.

I've never had the second problem though...


Regards