While it's not necessary for most, it suits my cockpit. I need a little bit of bend for my chair has no cut-out. I also like precision. The throw is ridiculous with it and I recommend using a 3D-printed limiter which takes ~ 50% away both ways. Order one from @walmis if you don't want to DIY.
I'd say it would help only in the sense that it is such a good stick, there is no sticktion, the dampening is smooth as butter the whole stick just feels premium, I went from a vkb gf3 base & when I originally upgraded to that from a x52 I thought it was the best stick base out there, but after upgrading again to the Rhino I found out just how good a stick can feel, plus you get the bonus of ffb effects, profile swapping etc. Also the Rhino has a huge length of throw like almost 44ยฐ total +/- in each axis so you have a huge range of motion to 'play with'. Hope this helps, as far as the Rhino goes it's easily the single best peripheral I have & I recommend anyone who enjoys flights simming enough to just go ahead & buy one, I seriously want two! After I do, rudders, yoke, collective I'd love to diy an even bigger motor kit! & if the winwing throttle coming out isn't really ffb & motor driven like the rhino I'll even consider doing a throttle, ffb is that good, not even so much the effects but just how good it feels, sry to rant lol, TLDR; Rhino so good, so smooth like butter, big range of motion, buy one!
On thing I will add though โ generally speaking the rhino doesnโt work with axis curves in game (at least in DCS this is a no go, IL2 might be ok with native support). So this can mean that certain aircraft like the spitfire will require an extension or some practice to not overdo the sensitivity part. That said, most planes are not really an issue because the stiffer feeling of the stick often helps counteract that extra sensitivity
Guys I think there might be something wrong with my MFG pedals. They are completely lifeless by themselves and if I step on them it feels like there's just a spring and a damper with even a little slop in it. No matter how much I try to slide the sliders in the Rhino software the pedals stay the same, I need to screw some screws or do stuff like that to make any changes. Also if I need to go into helicopter mode I have to crawl into my pit and pull off a spring, which is very annoying. This doesn't feel like how pedals are supposed to feel in 2023, pls hlp.
Sorry, new hereโฆ Apart from the troubles youโre having Iโm interested in this. are you saying thereโs a MFG Crosswind pedals mod to use motors and the rhino software to make them FFB/spring less? Got a link for this at all or all your own work?
I take it people playing with the idea of FFB rudders arenโt expecting โactualโ FFB as most games wonโt implement that - we just thinking of adding some nice features to the telemetry software?
Pedal behavior with TelemFFB will vary based on the sim in question. (none of them have any native pedal support). (in addition to all the haptic effects)
MSFS
Auto switching between FBW (fixed spring), Dynamic spring force w/ dynamic slip based forces, and un-sprung for helicopters (configurable dampening)
Rudder trim following
Rudder autopilot following
Nosewheel shimmy effect
DCS
Auto switching between FBW (fixed spring), Dynamic spring force based on individual aircraft speed envelope, and un-sprung for helicopters (configurable dampening)
Rudder trim following for fixed wing aircraft
IL2
Nothing special added yet but should be able to implement at least dynamic spring forces.
"Enabled by our CLS2Sim software-environment, the CLS-E MK II Rudder can easily communicate with commercially available simulation software such as X-Plane, Microsoft Flight Simulator and Prepar3Dยฎ. Furthermore, any third-party flight simulation solution can connect via a simple TCP/IP or UDP remote interface protocol. DirectX Force feedback enabled games are also fully supported. "
I'm just an owner who got a bug up my arse one day to start playing with the TelemFFB source code to see how it works and if I could add some effects to it... It kinda snowballed from there (I wrote the support for all of what I mentioned in that list). BTW, a lot of what TelemFFB can do is documented in the manual linked in #VPforce Rhino WIP Manual but there is still a lot that is not documented (or has changed to some degree since it was initially documented)
Nice. Software dev myself so Iโve got an aye on possibly contributing myself. Really interesting to see if I can pull something out of DCS to put judder in the rudder pedals if you oversteer the nose wheel of the F18 on โhighโ. You carry on going straight instead of turning if youโre going too fast so Iโm thinking something like detecting the rotation angle of the pedals and if thereโs any corresponding rotation of the aircraft itself. Maybe scale the โrumbleโ based on amplitude of your speed and difference between input vs rotational velocity. Basically itโs something that I always get caught out for on the carrier and would like some feedback to know when itโs happening
There is a surprising amount of data you can get out of DCS. Some effects even go so far as to interrogate the model draw arguments to generate the telemetry needed for an effect. The afterburner rumble is this way for example. That's also how the damage effect I wrote works. It pulls all of the damage related draw arguments for an aircraft (i.e., the visual bullet holes and texture/model changes that occur when you take damage). There is no other damage telemetry that I could figure out how to access.
Ah yeah, I think I saw someone mention that AB effect in another chat somewhere. Oh well, good to know that we can essentially be as hacky as we want to get an effect
So im working on getting this EDForceFeedback to work from this elite dangerous FFB github you sent. I have a working version for sidewinder 2 FFB.
Now hooking up the rhino. It needs product GUID . How do I find that. Does anyone know what this value is for the VPForce Rhino? Update: EDForceFeedback works , use below in your settings.json for VPForce Rhino to work. Also use this release, the latest didn't work for me. https://github.com/x360ce/x360ce/releases/tag/3.2.9.82 "ProductGuid": "2055ffff-0000-0000-0000-504944564944", "ProductName": "VPforce Rhino FFB Joystick",
Wow I learned from that github there is this wonderful visual editor for forces .ffe files It's from 2010 but so cool, you have to put the program in compatibility mode for Windows 98/Me It's amazing though. I wonder how you guys create forces.