Clickable Cockpit?

[bienduga]

Would it be possible to have the mouse work for selecting cockpit controls while using the joystick as the primary control? I would think the mouse cursor would change to a
selector function while mousing over the cockpit displays for selecting ships, selecting ship subsystems, and choosing shield configurations(maybe three clicks to max a shield direction and reset by clicking the ship in the middle).

It would also be helpfull to have the left mouse button control afterburner, and right mouse button control IDS select when the mouse cursor points out the window into
space. That way I can free up 2 buttons on my 10 button joystick for other functions.

I can fly with one hand and select all the functions I use with the mouse in the other

hand.


[Edited on 1-5-2011 by bienduga]

[bienduga]

Yep, now that I think about it, a clickable cockpit is the way to go for this sim. I had a military flight sim that had this and it was really slick, espically as the avionic functionality expands.....

[soulsacrifice]

Surely using the keyboard for these functions would be much quicker than a clickable cockpit anyway? And speed is vital to those functions mid-combat.

Using the mouse, you would no longer be able to select targets behind the clickable cockpit areas though.

I'm not saying that i'm against it as an option.

[soulsacrifice]

I had great success with voice commands using Pilfius in Evochron Legends. You can find my profile for that in my sig. below.

[Atollski]

Would very much like a touch screen to play DCS Black Shark... Not that it will make me into a better pilot though!

[warsign]

Clickable cockpits are suitable for real flight sims imo. For futuristic space simulations like Evochron series, keyboard is way better for me.