SimTools v3 Public Beta

Ok, one more question. I've searched the manual and google, What is SRV_Roll and pitch? I think it stands for servo but is not all of this a kind of servo?

I'm new also so this may be wrong but I think the problem would be that there are so many ways people can build a custom sim that it would be hard to have a setup that would work. E.g. my motors are mounted opposite of each other so my "roll" directions are the same way but my "pitch" direction needs to be opposing motor directions.

You could have "simulator build plans" and a setup that matches the plan.

A couple of questions:

1. Has anyone else used SimTools 3 and War Thunder Profile successfully (Just to give me confidence that I need to keep working on it)?
2. Is SimTools 3 still in Beta User Testing or is it full release and should be working with profiles?
   1. Where would I go to see "patch notes" if any?

Again, I'm speaking to you in good faith but my words may sound harsh. I had my system running in sim racing studio with no delay at all on the first try. That it functioned so quickly is what gave me the confidence to actually get my sim as good as it can be.

It took me a full week to replace it with simtools and I was trying every day, reading manuals and watching videos. I do not believe this is an issue of user error or ignorance, it's actually obtuse. It could have a selection for "three actuators, 2 front, 1 rear" along with other common setups to get you started so tweaking can start.

Another example, I installed bass shakers today and I had to boot up SRS again to make sure I had it working technically correct. Now I'm going to bed without Simtools following suit because I have no idea what to program in. I get it to test just fine but what needs to happen in the game profile? Good luck to me, it's going to take a few days to figure it out. That is not an exaggeration, it will probably be Sunday before I am dialing in a working profile.

Whatever it is I need to do is for sure not in the manual. It's probably in the forum post about the setup for v2 but I'm reading that and still not getting any action out of the game. I am 100% sure it doesn't need to be this way so I'm pointing it out with the hope it can be sorted eventually.

This will primarily be a flying sim, but I should add a few points to it to see.

I have no angst and I am not complaining. SRS can not do what I need it to do and simtools can. Yours is by far the better program, that's why I switched to it and why I'm taking the time to point this out.

I'm not even frustrated about it, I've got the time budgeted and really do expect to be dialing in by Sunday. As you said, everything has it's pros and tradeoffs, but did you know how much of a trade off is needed? Simtools takes several days of study for a new user to do the basics. It's true and I am sharing that fact with you because it occurs to me that you genuinely may not know how big the gap is.

I'm going to leave it there, don't want to get marked (any more than I am) as a complainer. If I didn't point it out, with proof, how would you know, right?

Here's a pallet cleanser, today is my birthday and I have a bad ass (and working) sim in my garage!

Thank you for the information this seems like it will be great to help everyone share settings for different profiles. One question would be: Does the person receiving a profile have to adjust the "direction" of to match their motor setup. E.g. My motors are opposite of each other so someone that has their motors in the same direction would need different settings for each motor direction. Is this a correct assumption?

After learning a lot I've settled on the following settings for No Limits 2 (on my rig)

Notes that I found good as a newbie:

• (2DOF system) I found my pitch and heave are in the same direction and "add" to each other so watch out that the unit doesn't "max" out past your limits.
• Alternatively Roll has sway "removed" from it so you can push it a bit more farther.
• Surge is opposite of pitch/heave.

I'm still banging my head against my keyboard with War Thunder on ST3. It would really be great to get some feedback on this. I see that people seem to have it working on ST2 (which I don't have running as I don't have ST2 with game profiles). I don't have any experience with game profiles but it seems that ST3 is more of a amalgamation of the different ST2 Game Engine and Game Manager (with some added perks) but underneath the interfacing with a game should be relatively the same. How off am I?

That is an issue, but there are few ways to solve this:
It could ask which servo is assigned to which action. (which actuator is front right?)
It could tell you which servo to plug into which port to get the right action. (port 1 on the AMC is front right)
It could display what it's suppose to be doing then ask if it's doing it so user can click which axis needs to be in reverse.

This last one is close to what we're doing now. When I finally got it to respond, roll and pitch went straight up and down until I understood what the reverse buttons did. If it had just started in that configuration where I was getting SOME action on bootup, tweaking it to actually turn would have gone several days faster.

Thanks for the feedback, I'm sure working together people would definitely get it working.

Oh thank you so much. Crossing my finger for good news on Monday/Tuesday. You're the best.

Adding one more note:

• Speed (force) is for your fan (if you have one) not the motion of the vehicle.

My God if I knew how fun this would be I would have spent more time building it faster LOL. Having a simulator 2DOF is great for IL2 and I can't wait to add my yaw (traction loss) axis. Anyways I have set up my 2DOF for IL2 with the following settings. Please any tips or suggestions to "tune" it would be very welcome.

Note:

• Setup on SimTools 3 (ST3)
• motors are mounted opposite of each other in opposite directions, hence Roll is same dir and pitch is opposite dir.
• I needed to adjust the Pitch in min/max tuning to 180/-180
• No changes to default for Parking Location and Crash Detection
• Lesson Learned - Anti Rollover on Roll and Pitch is a must in flight sims.
• Question - My smoothing is set to 15% but I'm wondering if that may be too much. It seems good in the game but suggestions or feedback is desired.
• Question - I'm not sure about setting my min/max - Data Input settings to "Rotational" and 100 degrees. It's working and getting very close to my "max" range but I do have about 170 degrees in total range (even with it set to 100 degrees).