by lebull » Mon May 01, 2017 4:10 pm
For what its worth. I've found that the xPlane interaction is much less consistent than FSX's. Particularly, things that are anything but a single button press doesn't always work as expected. For instance, I have yet to figure out how to keep the ignition switch held in the stock 172, and I can hardly see the little helper indicator. Trying to use the trim with touch was rough in either cause, though.
I was going to put this in a separate post, but I feel like its still on-topic.
There are also some behavioral things that I think could be improved on, however. Once again, I think just a flight in the 172 can be a good demonstration. When I try to grab the throttle, I press the grip and press A, and hold the trigger. That brings up the interaction menu (I guess that can be rebound somewhere), so I have to move that out of the way and remember to just use the grip and trigger. Once I grab the throttle, I can move it back and forward. As I physically move my head look up, however, my virtual hand moves twice as far away as was since I'm using the distance scaling feature. That's feature is pretty much required for me to not hit the edge of my desk. I play around and once again feel where my throttle... kind of... is, but while I move back and forward, my engine cuts out. Turns out I can also grab the mixture at the same time. I feel like these things could be avoided or smoothed over by kind of ignoring the virtual hand while you are grabbing on to something. I don't mind my virtual hand teleporting around as long as long as it controlling what I want it to.
I definitely think already that using touch can be a lot more productive than what I was expecting before trying this out. Hell, I can actually use the fmc now without it being in a separate window! I appreciate the work that went into 1.8 and I'm glad I went ahead and got it for xPlane as well. Also, I honestly don't mind the hands (Eiffel 65 / 10).
Rig: Win10, i5-4590, 8gb Ram, 970gtx, Oculus Rift
Software: FSX, Rex hd airport textures, Active Sky 2016, Navigraph
Planes: QW757