A call out to Cougar owners?

[Rynthas 0]

Perhaps not the best forum to post in, but I recently picked up a TM HOTAS Cougar. Now I'm trying to get it to function correctly in ArmA (preferably with non-TM pedals). If any other ArmA playing cougar owners out there care to lend a hand, PM me (preferably with an IM screen name. I use Trillain, have 'em all).

ArmA doesn't recognize a lot of the whiz-bang buttons and dials correctly, as far as I can tell. I think I can circumvent it by programming the joystick, but a little help there would be appreciated.

[Ventura 0]

Greets,

I've been flying around the island,( unfortunatly is almost the only thing i can do smootly in AA) with the hotas with no key emulation and no problems.

Could you specify, maybe i can help.

Regards,

Tiago Pires

[Guest RKSL-Rock]

Perhaps not the best forum to post in, but I recently picked up a TM HOTAS Cougar. Now I'm trying to get it to function correctly in ArmA (preferably with non-TM pedals). If any other ArmA playing cougar owners out there care to lend a hand, PM me (preferably with an IM screen name. I use Trillain, have 'em all).

ArmA doesn't recognize a lot of the whiz-bang buttons and dials correctly, as far as I can tell. I think I can circumvent it by programming the joystick, but a little help there would be appreciated.

You’ve assumed correctly that you need to program it.  I use the Cougar HOTAS with CH pro (gameport) pedals quite happily in ArmA and OFP.

Programming is pretty simple just takes a little bit of time to work it out but once you do it really rewarding.

Here's a very basic profile that i use to play ArmA.  Not all of the buttons are mapped but it means i can fly helicopters properly.  All you need to do is load this up to the stick and it will work.  If you have "Foxy" installed open it in there and you can edit it with the key GUI system.  Just follow the tutorials to get a basic understanding of what the stick can do and how to customise it yourself.

DOWNLOAD - HOTAS Profile

[Rynthas 0]

Yeah, I'd tried programming it, but it didn't respond as expected. Granted, it was only a couple minor things...

I also bought some Saitek pedals to go with it, but since they're USB I had to do a PPJoy kludge to get both working with ArmA. Right now it looks like I've got 3 dead buttons and a broken wheel on my Cougar, and with the half-working PPJoy stuff I've got to do to get it all running, I'm seriously debating just RMAing the lot as a return instead of a replacement and picking up a second Sidewinder FF joystick. I figure if I'm going to have to use PPJoy, I may as well do it on the cheap and just use my current joystick as a throttle and possibly pedal replacement.

Basically, I was wanting to map a few things to the Cougar's throttle -- Enter (action key) to the IFF/Radio forward button, and use the Antenna wheel the same as a mouse wheel. Sadly, the Antenna wheel is broken...and the forward position is the only working button out of the 4 possibles on the IFF/Radio switch.