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Keyboard Commands Using Android Tablet on WOFF BH&H - Matric App

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I created a deck to use with the Matric Android app to control WINGS OVER FLANDERS FIELDS: BETWEEN HEAVEN & HELL II.

Intro

  • I'm so new to the game that I still don't know just what I don't know about playing it
  • I have a little bit of flight sim experience in the past but having recently read the remarkable book Marked for Death  byJames Hamilton-Patterson I used google to learn more about WWI flight, found WOFF and jumped in running.
    • I've never been fond of using a keyboard to enter sim commands
  • I'm grateful for this forum, it's been instrumental in helping me get started, my thanks to everyone who has contributed.
  • I'm not affiliated with Matric app in any way, I'm just a guy trying to figure things out

The Matric App

  • Their Website http://matricapp.com/
    • All edits are done on the desktop app that is a free download 
    • The mobile app communicates with this desktop app to work with your game (Or photo editor, videos, music, etc. etc. Matric is useful beyond gaming)
  • Google Play Store on Android phone or tablet to get the mobile app. 
    • Cost for the app is scaled based on what you can either afford or how much you value it ranging from $12.99 to $19.99 you choose how much you  pay.
    • I use a Kindle Fire tablet that I found a work around to get the Play Store on

How I use Matric in WOFF

  • I set up my deck to have everything I didn't have set up already on other devices (you may see buttons you don't need or need more but this is easily editable) 
    • I use SmoothTrack Face Tracking App on my Android phone with Opentrack on my computer so I didn't need the eye movement commands
      • As an aside, I have tried many setups and this is the best inexpensive solution I have found for face tracking
    • I had trouble with my VKB Gladiator NXT Joystick so I pulled an old Logitech Extreme 30 Pro joystick out and started using it. 
      • I think the Gladiator issues are related to some setup I was doing for IL2 and not related to WOFF, I will dedicate the time later to getting it going in WOFF but the Logitech works fine for now.
      • the Logitech has a few commands on it, these are not on my Deck
    • I changed a handful of commands while playing around with setup, please be aware if you download my deck that the following are not standard WOFF commands:
      • Fixed Views Toggle
        • Control+NumberPad5
      • Select Next Weapon
        • Conrol+NumberPad2
      • Right Rudder Trim
        • Control+NumberPad6
      • Left Rudder Trim
        • Control+NumberPad4
      • Increase Time Compression
        • Control+Semicolon
    • Quality Control
      • If you find an error in my deck, please share it here, I haven't even pushed every button in game yet.

Future Plans

  • I expect my decks to change quite a bit as I learn. Some buttons will be removed, some changed in look or groupings. 
  • Dedicated decks built for given plane types that have identical or very similar commands, removing commands that do not apply to those planes
  • Move buttons that are needed to access quickly (Combat) in sizing and location to fit my needs as I learn
    • I already have Blip button and unjam guns at the edge of the screen and large in anticipation of needing them quicker
    • I can see moving or copying the Wingman commands to the Weapon and Combat page to access them in the heat of battle without changing pages
  • Decks for realistic flying without any navigation buttons, just the bare basics after I get competent
    • Add maps as pages to decks, they will not be scrollable, but multiple pages that are static maps (images) can be added. 
      • Area around landing field for sure
      • As much of the engagement area as possible as additional pages
  • I hope that some of you here use Matric and contribute your work so that I can implement your improvements into my own setup.
  • If there is another option for this type of tablet based game control that is inexpensive I'd love to hear your experience. For now I can't think of anything that would make me change but I try to keep an open eye as to what is out there.

Get my Deck for Free if you have Matric

 

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I need help- The white highlight wasn't intentional... some of the highlighted text was copy/pasted from my notes but not all of it. Can anyone suggest how to clean it up? I didn't see the white highlight in editor mode...

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Thanks for posting that.  

Easiest way to clean up, probably best to copy all the text in blocks to notepad in Windows, which should strip any control characters (or at least you can see them and remove anything that looks odd).

Then copy it from Notepad and paste it into this (start from the top) then delete all the old text once you have it there.

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