Cougar Profiles for Aces High

[SlapShot]

Cougar owners and future Cougar owners ...

Players, such as Revvin, who were amongst the first to receive their Cougars, have already posted links to their profiles, but they are scattered in various post.

I just thought that we could start a thread that would be used just to point to profiles that we have developed.

Pre-existing profiles are a godsend to developing your own, especially if this is your first programmable stick.

I used Revvin's profile (thank you very much) to develop my own.

You can find my Aces High profile here.

[Revvin]

Originally posted by SlapShot
Cougar owners and future Cougar owners ...


I used Revvin's profile (thank you very much) to develop my own.

You can find my Aces High profile here.

No problem glad you could make use of mine. It's one of the good points about the software that you can take the macro file which contains all the game commands and then map them to your own joystick file. Config's are very personal things, mine suits me just fine but others might find it totally alien to them.

You can find my Aces High Cougar profile here along with profiles for the MS FF2 stick, CH FX/Pro Throttle and Saitek X36 USB (also a profile for Game Commander there too)

[airspro]

I wanted a very very simple profile . It has just two basic changes .

This profile will let you use Hat 2 as pov in AH , and then all the other hats , and buttons will be directx inputs .

Just make sure you have the "Button & Axis emulation is ON" in the HCCP , also you paste this file into the foxy > files folder . Tells how to download it into stick on page 28 and 29 in manual .

I got pretty good sized hands but it seemed to me that HAT2 was easier to use as a pov , than HAT1 . I then set HAT1 to HAT2's directx buttons .

I really like this software , learning it is going to be fun , I think

[airspro]

here it is

[Karnak]

Here is my current file.  It works pretty well, but I still need to get the microstick to work as elevator and aileron trim.

The view system is SOB's, and he did an exceptional job on it.  It is so much easier having all of your views on one hat.   SOB, and thanks.

[Wanker]

Karnak, that's an interesting view system. I think mine accomplishes the same thing, but I'm scratching my head trying to figure out how mine differs from yours.

All I did was to assign hat 3 to be the POV hat, then in AH I set the 8 standard "level" views on the POV hat. In FOXY, I assigned S3 to "Look Up". So now, I can look all around with the POV hat, then if I need to look up in any direction, I just press the S3 button while holding the POV hat.

it works great for views, but I think I'm missing out on the /I /O ability because I limited my S3 button, correct?

[214thCavalier]

You may want to check this one started with Revvins and changed views to have normal plus up and down switchable, without as in the original losing the held view, IE right reverted to front when you select up and you then had to reselect the right view again doubling up on key presses.
Also moved stuff around so trim is on throttle meaning i can trim while still using views at same time, trying to use 1 hand to fly and view and trim at same time was hard work
Tried to keep the important functions ie ord select, flaps etc to easy to reach hats and less important like autopilot modes to the more difficult to reach hats / switches.
Oh and the S3 button is not tied up it still acts as a shift button, S3 gives up views and S4 down views.
Also a work still in progress.

[SlapShot]

There has to be more Cougar owners and profiles than what has been posted ...

Flossy / Zeb ... I know you have the Cougar .. want to share ?

[Flossy]

Originally posted by SlapShot
Flossy / Zeb ... I know you have the Cougar .. want to share ?

We still keep tweaking ours, but here is what we have so far:

[SlapShot]

Thanks Flossy ... There is  definately is a "tweaking period" ... mine has changed within the last week too and will have to update the FTP site soon.

EDIT: Sorry for the double post/request Flossy ...

[Flossy]

Originally posted by SlapShot
Thanks Flossy ... There is  definately is a "tweaking period" ... mine has changed within the last week too and will have to update the FTP site soon.

LOL, yeah lost count how many times Zeb has modified ours.... just get used to one and he changes it again!  

EDIT: Sorry for the double post/request Flossy ...  [/B]

Hehe, NP.  Zeb is hoping to write a bit of an explanation at some point, but has been waiting until the profile is finalised...  

[Reschke]

Gee I would post my profile here but it is an amalgamation of all the profiles listed here like Revvins, Karnak's, banana's and SOB's. So I am still tweaking and working on it and it is god awful ugly but hey it works...well at least it does 50% of the time.

[FOGOLD]

Hi

I just got a Cougar. Do these dowloadable profiles overwrite the settings within AH? Seems to me you can set the stick up pretty well within AH?

I had hoped to set the two rotary buttons as trim, but can't figure out how.

Also How do you enable the microstick as mouse (I know. Go to Frugals Cougar World:p )

[Flossy]

Originally posted by Flossy
Hehe, NP.  Zeb is hoping to write a bit of an explanation at some point, but has been waiting until the profile is finalised...  

OK, Zeb and I put together an explanation and graphic, also tidied up the .tmj a bit, over the weekend.  As it is now too big to post as an attachment, it can be found at:  http://www.zeb.clara.net/AHZeb.zip  

[Zeb]

Originally posted by FOGOLD
Hi

I just got a Cougar. Do these dowloadable profiles overwrite the settings within AH? Seems to me you can set the stick up pretty well within AH?

I had hoped to set the two rotary buttons as trim, but can't figure out how.

Also How do you enable the microstick as mouse (I know. Go to
Frugals Cougar World:p )

Nothing is overwritten in AH. Simply unzip the files into your FOXY/FILES directory.  The profile I have used relies on the AH stick settings to be flat (all sliders to the top).  I use the CURVE command in the Cougar profile to make different stick sensitivities around the middle of the axis for different modes. Dogfight, Normal and Land/Takoff.

Setting rotary buttons as trim is not too difficult.  Similar to the map zoom method I used in my profile.  Have a look at how I have done trims.  I use S4.  When S4 is held moving the stick or rudder pedals locks the analogue axis positions and ajusts trims.  Returns to normal on release of S4.  Whilst S4 is held it also alows HAT1 to go itno F8 PAN mode.

The microstick is set to mouse with

USE MICROSTICK AS MOUSE (11,3,1)

However, if you want to change the X for the Y axis and reverse the direction (seems to seel a lot more natural) you would use

USE MIX AS MOUSEY (11, 3, 1) - REVERSE_DIR
USE MIY AS MOUSEX (11, 3, 1) - REVERSE_DIR

However there is a bug in the software and it doesn't work.
If asked if it would be fixed in the software update I would have to reply "No Comment" ;-)

The way to do it for now is as follows.

[color=0080C0]MIX [/color]2 11 [color=008000]MSY([/color]10[color=008000]) MSY([/color]7[color=008000]) MSY([/color]4[color=008000]) MSY([/color]2[color=008000]) MSY([/color]1[color=008000]) MSY([/color]0[color=008000]) MSY([/color]-1[color=008000]) MSY([/color]-2[color=008000]) MSY([/color]-4[color=008000]) MSY([/color]-7[color=008000]) MSY([/color]-10[color=008000]) [/color]

[color=0080C0]MIY [/color]2 11 [color=008000]MSX([/color]10[color=008000]) MSX([/color]7[color=008000]) MSX([/color]4[color=008000]) MSX([/color]2[color=008000]) MSX([/color]1[color=008000]) MSX([/color]0[color=008000]) MSX([/color]-1[color=008000]) MSX([/color]-2[color=008000]) MSX([/color]-4[color=008000]) MSX([/color]-7[color=008000]) MSX([/color]-10[color=008000]) [/color]