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    Remap your controls from 4.3 to 4.5 Blitz

    Hi all,
    Have figured out a way of fairly painlessly remapping your controls on 4.5 Blitz Edition, instead of manually going through and rebinding everything, which can be a bit of a pain if you have many controllers. If you like what you see, read on.

    You will require a text editor that is capable of finding and replacing text (Notepad included with Windows will do this) and your old 4.3 config files. This method will work with buttons and axes binded to joysticks, throttles, pedals and any other sort of USB controller used by CloD. Keyboard bindings have not changed format and will require no editing.

    Instructions are as follows:

    1. Start Blitz and go into Options>Controls. There, find the unique ID for each controller you use ingame by binding a button or axis to any setting you like. Doesn't matter which, as all you are doing is noting down what the ID's for each controller are and not actually binding controls at this point.


    2. Make notes of which ID corresponds to which controller on BOTH versions of CloD, i.e. write down "TWCSThrottle34GR5EA" = "Joystick2" for all the controllers. This task will be much easier if you can refer back to 4.3 to check which controller is which, but you may be able to remember or make an educated guess by looking at the .ini files.


    3. Make a copy of your 4.3 confUser.ini (located in Documents/1C SoftClub/il-2 sturmovik cliffs of dover - MOD) and place it in an accessible location. There, open it with your text editor of choice and use the Find and Replace feature to swap out all the "Joystick#" entries for the corresponding controller entries. For example, entries that previously were "Joystick2+Key4=dropbombs" should now appear as "TWCSThrottle34GR5EA+Key4=dropbombs".


    4. Overwrite the Blitz confUser.ini with the copied 4.3 one you just modified with the new IDs.


    5. Launch Blitz. All your control settings should be working.


    Also note that you can carry over your other conf/confs/bldconf.ini (graphics, net settings etc) with no issues, and your user.ini is mostly intact insofar that it keeps squadrons, identification codes and gun convergences but gun loadouts may be changed due to the new/removed loadout options, and different skins may show up. New 4.5 aircraft will also be on default settings.

    Hope this helps get people up and running - have fun all
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    Re: Remap your controls from 4.3 to 4.5 Blitz

    Good job Kiwi...~S~
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    Re: Remap your controls from 4.3 to 4.5 Blitz

    Thrustmaster TARGET Script editor users: Check your scripts to make sure the [Throttle] and [Joystick] devices have not changed. A number of lines in my scripts had "Throttle" where "Joystick" used to be. It should not have compiled, but it did, causing problems in the game when used. An hour of editing fixed everything up on all my scripts.
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    Re: Remap your controls from 4.3 to 4.5 Blitz

    Thanks a lot

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    Re: Remap your controls from 4.3 to 4.5 Blitz

    Quote Originally Posted by ATAG_Lewis View Post
    Good job Kiwi...~S~
    A "noob" question:

    In Blitz what make/model (RAF) aircraft does the mixture control function? The Spitfire pocket manual states that "on later aircraft there is no mixture control or, if fitted, is rendered inoperative." It won't map for me in Spitfire IIa, so I am curious about this engine function in Blitz.
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    Re: Remap your controls from 4.3 to 4.5 Blitz

    Hi Downeast,

    I have an axis command assigned to my mixture control, although 99.99% of my flying is done with mixture in Auto Rich, just as the real life Spit & Hurri pilots did. Here’s a more detailed description:

    https://theairtacticalassaultgroup.c...l=1#post193803

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