Selecting Engines in VR

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Jason210
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Selecting Engines in VR

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This aircraft is great in VR. I was able to do everything, with just a bit of peaking out of the headset now and then. Everything except select engines that is. The 3D pointer/sphere thingy seems to work on everything for me except that panel. Which is a bugger because you cant select engines with the keyboard. Although it's rather clunky, you can select items on the 2D panels with the VR cursor, but for some reason the engine selector was not responding to those mouse clicks. I haven't figured out a good way to select engines in VR. Does anyone have a solution?
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Tomas Linnet
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Re: Selecting Engines in VR

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I don’t use VR, but I’ve assigned 1-5 on my keyboard to select engines. 1-4 for the engines and 5 to select all. It’s done through the input configurator.
I’m using FSX SE
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Jason210
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Re: Selecting Engines in VR

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Thanks for the reply. I've tried to avoid doing that, one of the reasons being that all my keys are already doing stuff. The keys 1 to 5 are used for ATC communication.
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maddz
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Re: Selecting Engines in VR

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Doesn’t the numbers only correspond to ATC, when the ATC window is open? So when the ATC window is closed you can use the keys for engine selection?

I have mine setup through Linda, I’m unsure if you know about this amazing software but it really opens up what you can do with your controller(s)
Linda has 2 modes, so 1 button will do 1 thing, and in mode 2, the same button will do something different.

You could :
With 2buttons (1,2)
Press button 1, select eng1, then, press AND HOLD button for eng2.

Then

Press button 2 for mode 2
Now in mode 2, the same button used for the above will activate eng3-4 the same way, press, press and hold.

Jason210
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Re: Selecting Engines in VR

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OK, thanks guys, I guess I'm going to have to do something like that, although keyboard interaction is one thing I want to keep to a minimum in VR, especially on finals.
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Re: Selecting Engines in VR

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I’m not sure if this works, but maybe it has been done....buy a usb num pad keyboard and use that??
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Sim: FSX SE
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C172, C182, P51 Civ, P51 Mil, B17, Spitfire, P47, B377 COTS,
J3 Cub, T6, Connie, P-40, V35B
A2A Accu-Sim Avro Lancaster Loading:............0.000003% complete, please wait.

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