X52 Mapping....looking for good setup

[Drane]

Thanks in advance...Anyone have good setup for mapping X52 out in AH?

If you could post it, I'm sure others might benefit too.   

[The Fugitive]

Mapping a stick out is a personal preference type of thing. To do your own stick shouldn't take more than 5 to 10 minutes.

[Bizman]

Mapping a stick out is a personal preference type of thing.

Definitely so. Sticks aren't warbirds or any other aeroplanes which come from the designer as-is.

To do your own stick shouldn't take more than 5 to 10 minutes.

You must be kidding! I admit, the basics can be mapped in mere minutes. Actually the basics usually get mapped correctly automatically. Like the X- and Y-axis, 8-way hat and trigger... Every time I change to a new kind of a stick it will take me weeks to find the right and logical places for my desired functions.

Drane, it's a question of preferences. You've probably been flying AH with a stick before, so you  might like to map some functions into similar places as your old stick. Muscular memory takes a while to learn new tricks! After doing that, think about the most used functions you've been doing on the keyboard. Find logical places for them on your new stick and throttle. If you find yourself triggering a wrong feature more often than not, change the mapping accordingly. There are no right or wrong mappings! For hints and tips what others have done, use the search function and limit it to this forum.

[100Coogn]

Definitely so. Sticks aren't warbirds or any other aeroplanes which come from the designer as-is.
 You must be kidding! I admit, the basics can be mapped in mere minutes. Actually the basics usually get mapped correctly automatically. Like the X- and Y-axis, 8-way hat and trigger... Every time I change to a new kind of a stick it will take me weeks to find the right and logical places for my desired functions.

Drane, it's a question of preferences. You've probably been flying AH with a stick before, so you  might like to map some functions into similar places as your old stick. Muscular memory takes a while to learn new tricks! After doing that, think about the most used functions you've been doing on the keyboard. Find logical places for them on your new stick and throttle. If you find yourself triggering a wrong feature more often than not, change the mapping accordingly. There are no right or wrong mappings! For hints and tips what others have done, use the search function and limit it to this forum.

Especially if the OP plans on any advanced mapping such as using the detents on the throttle for 'tripping the wire' for WEP.

Coogan

[Rich46yo]

I can send you mine but as has been said its such a personal preference odds are you arent going to like it. Besides I have changed keymapping in the game itself so you would have to go into the mapping of the game as well. Is yours an X52 or a X52 Pro? Yes they do use different software profiles.

The best thing to do is write down all the keymaps on paper, map the important stuff in SST, and then just play for an afternoon changing and honing your final map to your preference.

[The Fugitive]

Definitely so. Sticks aren't warbirds or any other aeroplanes which come from the designer as-is.
 You must be kidding! I admit, the basics can be mapped in mere minutes. Actually the basics usually get mapped correctly automatically. Like the X- and Y-axis, 8-way hat and trigger... Every time I change to a new kind of a stick it will take me weeks to find the right and logical places for my desired functions.

Drane, it's a question of preferences. You've probably been flying AH with a stick before, so you  might like to map some functions into similar places as your old stick. Muscular memory takes a while to learn new tricks! After doing that, think about the most used functions you've been doing on the keyboard. Find logical places for them on your new stick and throttle. If you find yourself triggering a wrong feature more often than not, change the mapping accordingly. There are no right or wrong mappings! For hints and tips what others have done, use the search function and limit it to this forum.

LOL!!! Stop changing sticks!!!

I've had the same CH equipment for years. I just setup my fathers stick, and my brother in laws stick. One was a T16000, the other a Logicrap. In both case it was "their" preferences (certainly NOT how I'd set it up ) but I told them the things I use most and we went from there.

8 way hat views
up modifier for views (down modifier is bonus but not as important)
fire all
secondary weapon fire
flaps up and down
WEP
view zoom, with zoom in and out buttons
clipboard with zoom in and zoom out

Thats 12 buttons plus a 8 way hat switch. This didn't work out on the Logicrap stick. So we had to compromise a bit and leave some of that to the keyboard. Once you know WHAT your mapping I draw it out on a piece of paper and map the buttons in the game in one shot. Then they start flying. If they need to move things around to feel comfortable, they can do that on the fly editing the paper as they go so they can remember whats where until they get it fine tuned. They whole process takes just a few minutes to set up, but as you said it could take weeks until your comfortable.
 

[Bizman]

LOL!!! Stop changing sticks!!!

Well... since 2001 I'm on my fourth stick now. The first two were Logitechs, the first one including a gameport to USB adapter. Needless to say I used the gameport, on Win98. XP was considered a piece of excrement, used only by those who were after novelties... The third one was/is a Thrustmaster TopGun Afterburner II, known today as HotasX, and the current one is the T16000m combined with the throttle of the previous one. Not too many changes in twelve years...

Oh, and I do own CH gear, too: A Mach II. My very first joystick for my very first own PC. Looks like new and was working perfectly when last used. Actually, a friend used it for AH1 way back then. He returned it saying it was too precise!