Changing Joystick Axis Functions (?)

[Alexandros]

Is there a way to change which axis does what in the game? I use a twist joystick but I want my twist to be yaw and my tiltng left/right to be roll. Flight sim style, it's what I'm used to and find intuitive, otherwise I won't even map the roll to the joystick and use buttons instead which is far from the ideal solution, just a work around.

If it's not possible with the in-game settings are there any easy to use Windows tools that will allow the two axis to be switched around so that I can do that when playing this game (as well as a few other oldies, including X-Wing Alliance)?

[Wizened_Dock]

I used the Logitech Game Profiler and was able to switch them on my Extreme 3D Pro(and in X-wing Alliance,too) but if you don't have a Logitech joystick idk if it'll work

[JGZinv]

Buying or using a 3rd party tool like Pinnacle Game Profiler is about all you have in the way of options. Tachyon uses just what Windows sees as a controller, input for input, I think you can invert axis and you can map the buttons to keys, but that is it.

[Aris]

use joustickcurves is free and set up a vjoy then you just change the axis until you get what you want very easy

set up a warthog with rudders

[rm -rf / --no--preserve--root]

I was able to use two programs to reassign joystick axes for this game.

I used vJoy to create a virtual joystick: https://github.com/njz3/vJoy/

then I used Universal Controller Remapper to assign axes from my real joystick (Logitech Extreme 3D) to the virtual joystick (vJoy Stick 2): https://github.com/Snoothy/UCR

For me, I had to set the Z rotation axis to read as the X axis, and vice versa. So bizarre that this game swaps them.

I was unable to get the yaw (rudder/twist control) to work, even with reassigning axes; I had to disable it in the game's joystick menu, then I set the numpad + and - keys in the key rebinds menu for the throttle instead. Really annoying.