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Programming Hat/POV (Point of View) Switches

All of the controllers supported by SST have a Hat, or POV switch. On the joysticks and pads

a POV switch is usually used as a device for looking through the different views from a cockpit

in a flight simulator, but you can assign it to do whatever you want. On the GM2/GM3 it is very

important as it’s the switch that movement commands are assigned to for first person shooter

games like Medal Of Honor.

If left unprogrammed, the POV switch will just act as either a default POV or, in the X36/X45’s

case, as a set of four buttons, depending on in which direction it is pushed. This is easily

changed and to start programming the POV simply right click on it or click the little arrow icon

next to it in the profile editor and you will get the following drop-down menu.

You can see that you have three possible functions for the POV switch, the default option for

which (POV) is currently selected. The other two options are to set it to operate as buttons or

to emulate the mouse. You can also set whether the POV operates in 8-way or 4-way mode

here. For Mouse and POV mode it’s recommended that you leave it as 8-way but for buttons

mode it’s definitely recommended to set it to 4-way, simply because it can be very hard to

select the diagonal positions uniquely in the heat of gameplay (the only exception to this is if

you are configuring the hat to move something in 8 directions, like you would with the

GM2/GM3 for a first person shooter game).

Setting it to Mouse will simply give you a Sensitivity slider bar like below:

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