Reply To: Key mapping confusion

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32assassin
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    @32assassin

    I’m a bit confused with the key assignment. Using iPAC2 and trying to figure out something smart here…not going very well. Why is flippers and plunger and so on assigned in PinballX? Doesn’t Visual Pinball settings apply when a table is started? Should key settings in Visual Pinball and PinballX be identical? Is there a best practice for key assignment that works well with everything? Also, tried Steam Pinball Arcade, but there I kinda need different keys. Anyone succesful with getting all this to work well? Got flippers, magna save, three buttons in front, and plunger button to play with.

    Unless you can wire a button to your Ipac to have 2 separate key inputs

    why would they not be identical?

    Visual Pinball settings are applied when you load the table,  but how are you supposed to control PinballX when the table is not started?

    Flippers in PinballX  move your table selection (left and right)

    Magna buttons SHOULD!!!!!!!!!!!  be mapped to your letter jumps,  unless you want to navigate thought hundreds of tables

     

     

     

    if you wan’t to keep your Ipac use the default Visual Pinball keys,  and remap PinballX to match those settings

    (given that an Ipac is pre configured to have MAME button inputs you might need to reprogram your Ipac to include all the default Visual Pinball keys)

     

    the best practical set up is to get rid of your Ipac (keyboard encoder)  and use a joystick encoder.

    You will find out that allot of modern PC games do not fully support keyboard inputs.

    Some are pre configured to work with an Xbox360 controller.

    You will need a 3rd party software in order to use a PS3 or a generic joystick controller.

    I do not use TPA,  I can’t tell you if this is a problem you will face.   All I can tell you is; You would not have this problem if you had a joystick encoder.

    see a table you like help me find the resources so that I can finish it
    https://www.dropbox.com/sh/7qtake9whi5ium2/AAB4K4W78oMVlqSxTzKtGHTHa?dl=0

    see a table you like help me find the resources so that I can finish it
    https://www.dropbox.com/sh/7qtake9whi5ium2/AAB4K4W78oMVlqSxTzKtGHTHa?dl=0

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