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Help and Support Forums => All things VR => Topic started by: Goat1 on May 21, 2024, 12:23:08 AM
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I’ve been thinking about getting an Oculus 2 and I’m not to savvy about VR.
so I have a few questions.
Do you do you use your existing controls or do you need to use the paddles that come with the
oculus? Also can you still use the key board to type messages.
Also is 128GB good or do I need to go to 256 GB?
Thanks for any advice and help in this.
Goat
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I’ve been thinking about getting an Oculus 2 and I’m not to savvy about VR.
so I have a few questions.
Do you do you use your existing controls or do you need to use the paddles that come with the
oculus?
Yes you can use your joystick, throttle, and pedals
Also can you still use the key board to type messages.
Yes you can but it is difficult. If you have the headset set right there is enough space to look near the bridge of your nose to see the keyboard. If your a typist it is much easier because you dont need to look at the keyboard.
Also is 128GB good or do I need to go to 256 GB?
Thanks for any advice and help in this.
Goat
If your referring to the quest 2 size 128 is good for most games AH included, if your playing some of the bigger high tech games the higer memory will help you out better.
Typing is the biggest issue I have. Im more of a hunt and poke typer so I have trouble texted in game so chatting is a problem. On the other hand you can use a program called "Voice Attach". Small program and worth the $10. You program voice commands and the program types them out for you. So if your in a bomber and want to calibrate for a drop, instead of hitting F6, then "o' to open the doors, then "U" to enter calibrate mode, then press "Y" and hold to calibrate "U" to finish the calibration, I just say "calibrate" and it does it all for me. So for any key presses you need for flight /game controls you can setup a voice control to handle it. So chatting is the only problem I have left.
Lots of players use VR these days. If you have any questions ask away!
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Thanks for the info Fugi.
Goat
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The storage aspect is only for having games on the headset. If you're just playing AH using the link cable or airlink, the storage is irrelevant FWIW.
To echo Fugi - Voice Attack is great, I don't use it for AH but I do for IL2 and it's a godsend. I too can see through the nose bridge area just enough to have an idea of where my hands are and most importantly pick up my beer/cocktail. :)
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Thanks Spikes, the ability to drink beer while playing is an
important aspect for me.
Goat
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Must used bottled beer, Goat! Very easy to lose track of your beverage of choice and knock it over on the keyboard! :cheers:
Voice Attack is very handy. I use it to raise and lower the gear, stop engine, set autopilot climb, change ordinance and drop bombs. Etc. I got bailed out accidentally about 3 times, before I took that command out.
VR is the way, Goat1!
:rock
HlyWd
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Thanks for the beer tip Hollywood :cheers:
Goat
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I drink Gin and tonics, so a long straw works out well for me :devil
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Must used bottled beer, Goat! Very easy to lose track of your beverage of choice and knock it over on the keyboard! :cheers:
Voice Attack is very handy. I use it to raise and lower the gear, stop engine, set autopilot climb, change ordinance and drop bombs. Etc. I got bailed out accidentally about 3 times, before I took that command out.
VR is the way, Goat1!
:rock
HlyWd
Maybe I'm just clumsy or I might have been drunk. I managed to spill a bottle of beer all over my keyboard and had to give it a shower. I would NOT recommend drinking beer and using VR if you are playing on a laptop. That could turn out poorly.
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Must used bottled beer, Goat! Very easy to lose track of your beverage of choice and knock it over on the keyboard! :cheers:
Voice Attack is very handy. I use it to raise and lower the gear, stop engine, set autopilot climb, change ordinance and drop bombs. Etc. I got bailed out accidentally about 3 times, before I took that command out.
VR is the way, Goat1!
:rock
HlyWd
Yeah, forgot to include that. Bottled beer or cocktails that have a straw, or a highball lol.
Cans or rocks glasses do work but I have to tip my whole head back for a drink. :)
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Well I got my Oculus and the learning curve is pretty steep.
Just a couple problems: how to select functions on the clip board?
The only way I’ve been able to select planes or view the map is to
take the oculus off.
Also how do you center your view? I keep having to move my head to center the
gun sight.
Thanks,
Goat
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Assign a controller button to "center tracker" and another one to "left mouse button".
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Using the jstick views with vr helps..especially your 6 view
Aces high is the only sim with this ability and foresight
Eagler
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Assign a controller button to "center tracker" and another one to "left mouse button".
How do I assign controller buttons?
Thanks
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goto map controllers in the game. double hit the button you want to map (most of the time it highlights the button you hit) find the action "center tracker", left mouse button", "right mouse button", click on the action and click OK to save it.
So when your in the game with your headset on you will have a dot/ball that you can point to things in the game. Point the white dot/ball at the plane selection button, and click the "left mouse button" that you mapped.
You can still use the mouse if you can find it with out taking your headset off. I can look down the side of my nose between the headset and my nose to look around on my desk, grab the mouse, then looking at the screen in the headset again, point the ball at what you want to click on and click the mouse button. A bit more pain in the @zz.
For VR I added the center button to my joystick, but I dont use it much, I just try to stay centered in my chair and not bounce all over the place. I already look pretty silly wearing the headset I dont want to add in dancing in my seat. My wife would never let me live it down. I did add both left clcik and right click buttons to my stick to make that easier.
Also get Voice Attack. Only $10 and it takes a lot of the button pushing load away.
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Thanks FLS, Eagler and Fugitive for the help.
I’m sure I’ll have more questions as I go,
Goat
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Well I got another problem, I keep losing my stick and throttle setting in Oculus, the settings are the in monitor mode and I redo them but they won’t stay. I think the files get renamed, but I can’t find what to rename them to.
So I need done more help with this.
Thanks
Goat
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Well I got another problem, I keep losing my stick and throttle setting in Oculus, the settings are the in monitor mode and I redo them but they won’t stay. I think the files get renamed, but I can’t find what to rename them to.
So I need done more help with this.
Thanks
Goat
This was brought up as a bug but happened randomly. Simply making the files read only didn't get it. What I did when it happened to me was, make copies of all my monitor settings and rename them wth the VR header. Put those in a separate folder I can get to quickly when this did happen again. And it did! Again and again. Completely at random. Annoying. Copy and paste the files on that folder to your settings folder and you're back in business. Always great fun as a frame of FSO was starting! AFAIK that bug never got ironed out but I haven't even run the program in over a month.
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I have never had an issue with my controller unmapping..... <knocks on wood> But I can think of one thing that may look like it. Do you have the auto switch mode on? If you map your controls in fighter mode and jump to the guns on a bomber the auto switch mode will switch you to bomber settings and if you didnt set them it will seem like the controls lost their mapping. Easiest way to fix this.....as long as you dont use a different mapping when bombing....is to just copy mode 1 to all the other modes, or turn off auto switching.
As for having a back up navigate to the settings folder in the game folder (C:\Hitech Creations\Aces High III\settings) and sort by "type".
(https://i.postimg.cc/NGRDkzcK/file1.jpg)
Make a copy of each .JSM file and save it in another folder that you can just copy and paste back into the settings folder each time you run into an issue.
Another tip, see the two files underlined? One is my joystick mapping for NON VR and the other is the mapping FOR VR. You MUST map the controllers IN VR to have a set, the NON VR setting dont work in VR. The easiest way to do that is to make a copy of the NON VR file and drop it on your desktop. Then right click it and rename the file by adding the VR_ to the front of the name. Save it and drop it back into your settings folder. This will give you the same mappings as the NON VR mapping in VR so you dont have to spend the time remapping everything. All you have to add is the mouse buttons and centering buttons to your VR mapping and you good to go.
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Well I got another problem, I keep losing my stick and throttle setting in Oculus, the settings are the in monitor mode and I redo them but they won’t stay. I think the files get renamed, but I can’t find what to rename them to.
So I need done more help with this.
Thanks
Goat
If you don't manually add vr to the file name you have to change the VR setting while in VR. AH3 has separate controller settings for monitor and VR.
Also, try a fan to blow some air on you while you play in VR.
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I didn’t feel comfortable going through the files and renaming them,
so I decided to uninstall and reload Aces 3.
It seems to be working ok, only tried it for around 5 minutes. Will try using a fan next time.
So now I’ll load voice attack and muddle my
way through it.
Thanks Fugi and FLS for the help.
Goat
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The saga continues, I brought my system up tonight and all the Oculus settings were gone.
I copied the non VR files to the VR files and it worked.
I verified I could fly around in VR ok.
I shut my system off, powered back up and the settings were gone,
So somehow when I shut my system down I lose the VR settings.
L
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Did you click OK to save the settings?
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Did you click OK to save the settings?
This sounds so obvious but I'll be damned if I haven't adjusted my HOTAS setup just perfectly before entering the arena to find none of the axis are set and the damn trigger doesn't work. Go back, redo and specifically remember the "ok" or "apply" button and everything is good.
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Thanks, I’ll give that a try tonight
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I think I got it working now.
I uninstalled and installed both the Oculus and Aces 3 software.
Reconfigured the settings in nonVR then started Oculus.
Went into settings and hit “ok” everything worked fine.
Brought the computer down and powered back up.
Went back into Oculus and the settings were still there!
Thanks everyone for your help.
Goat
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Great! Im glad it worked out for ya!
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Very cool isn't it?
Eagler
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Very cool isn't it?
Eagler
It really is
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Great! Im glad it worked out for ya!
Thanks
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I think I got it working now.
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Good job.
Copy the settings to a safe place if you didn't already do that.
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Good job.
Copy the settings to a safe place if you didn't already do that.
Thanks
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Ran into another issue, if I leave the game for a couple of minutes to
grab another drink or go to the bathroom the Oculus screen turns black.
I have to shut down AH and restart Oculus to get back into the game.
I thought it might be some kind of screen saver mode but can’t find any
information on it.
Goat
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On my quest 2 there is a sensor pretty much right between the eyes. When you take off the headset it goes black. When you put them back on (cover that sensor) they turn back on. I have read that some people have put a piece of tape over the sensor so they dont turn off.
Might check in the settings for the Oculus for a setting that turns them off instead of just putting them to sleep.
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Thanks, I’ll give that a try
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Same with vive pro
Once you put it back on it takes a sec and then ah pops back up
Eagler