Xbox Controller - Editing the Action Menu

[McDuders]

I've just started using a controller to drive the steam locomotives, and I have to say it's more solid than I thought it would be. I think I'm going to use it from now on as my default controls. Anyway, whenever I drive a steam locomotive, I always drive on the expert settings by pressing F5 twice first and leave it there for the rest of the scenario to see how well I do. However, in order to stoke the fire and use the water, I have to go back to the main HUD, then press up/down on the D-pad to stoke/water. I would like to fix this by editing the action menu by holding A then select two actions for both water valves and two to let water flow through. The same for opening the firebox and stoking. Is there a way to do this? Sorry if this went too long.

TL;DR: How can I add actions to the action menu on my controller (holding A)? Or how can I add the ability to water and stoke on a controller on the expert HUD without switching to the main HUD?

[Sharpey™]

You could try RailWorks Joystick API - Its very easy to setup and enables you to use any controller/joystick etc for TS.
http://forums.uktrainsim.com/viewtopic.php?f=318&t=112879

[McDuders]

The version I downloaded doesn't have the option to change bindings for steam trains :(

[Gerrit Doevenz #77]

I think you can remap the controller buttons in big picture mode..

[McDuders]

Isn't that just for steam controllers though?

[skinnyraf]

I struggled for a while with different options and then finally settled for the keyboard and controller combo. Regulator, throttle, brakes, camera, AWS reset - with the controller, everything else - with the keyboard.

It might not be the proper lean-back experience, but works quite well and definitely better then k/m or just the controller for me.

[LucaZoneX]

There is no way to customise the controller usage in TrainSim as far as I am aware.

[platy]

Use left button on top up for water and down for coal

[Mavadelo]

I don't have the game currently installed on this system so I can't check but there are many files that can be modded using RW Tools, especially when the controls are bin or xml format? Anyone ever checked that direction? I assume that API mentioned needs to alter some files as well so it should somehow be possible

[LucaZoneX]

The xbox controller setup is hard coded into TS. RWTools only hacks DLC files.

[Phase3]

Any Logitech game pad can be modified in D mode to any key stroke that you want and a good alternative to the Xbox controller is the Logitech G13 game pad - infinitely variable keystroke mapping.
XPadder and Pinnacle Studios (+ free stuff on UKTS) are software apps that allow you to customise any gamepad/joystick, etc.

[Thogmar]

Originally posted by Phase3:

Any Logitech game pad can be modified in D mode to any key stroke that you want and a good alternative to the Xbox controller is the Logitech G13 game pad - infinitely variable keystroke mapping.
XPadder and Pinnacle Studios (+ free stuff on UKTS) are software apps that allow you to customise any gamepad/joystick, etc.

I wish RE XPadder. Unfortunately the hard coded TS Xbox mappings override and conflict with XPadder. I wish DT would just let us assign button commands like every other game written in the last two decades.