Haven't used my Viking controller in a couple months, partially out of frustration that I can't ever seem to deal with all of the problems that keep cropping up out of the woodwork. Alright, alright, it's unnecessary criticism for an otherwise great piece of hardware, but I'm just angry and bitter that the controller is so **** fickle.
My newest adventure begins with wanting to make a toggled rapid fire A button. In the timeline, 0.0-0.1 was a stretch of blank space followed immediately by 0.1-0.2 being the A button. Assigned the macro to the right TAC 1, changed the gear settings to loop it infinitely until I pressed the button again and I give it a go. It repeats once and stops. I press it again. It happens again, then magically stops. I go back to confirm that I changed the loop function. I did. Synced the controller up again and uploaded the single macro to the controller. Still no dice.
From here, I figure that I would just loop it the way I used to. Before the 0.8.7.5 update, I would find a way to keep the button depressed so I could walk away to do something else or sleep or whatever. I try holding down the button with my thumb first to see if it loops properly before I set it to automate itself. Nothing happens and the button feels kind of loose. I lift my finger and the button doesn't come back up. I try to dig it out and the button falls entirely inside the shell where I can't reach it without dismantling the controller.
Now, I don't want a repeat of what happened to that button, so leave the left TAC alone. Instead, I come here looking for the new, proper way to start the loop that I don't have to supervise, because nothing is working as I imagined it should. I have the latest software, fresh batteries, etc. but it doesn't change the fact that I can't get the thing to loop when I tell it to.
My newest adventure begins with wanting to make a toggled rapid fire A button. In the timeline, 0.0-0.1 was a stretch of blank space followed immediately by 0.1-0.2 being the A button. Assigned the macro to the right TAC 1, changed the gear settings to loop it infinitely until I pressed the button again and I give it a go. It repeats once and stops. I press it again. It happens again, then magically stops. I go back to confirm that I changed the loop function. I did. Synced the controller up again and uploaded the single macro to the controller. Still no dice.
From here, I figure that I would just loop it the way I used to. Before the 0.8.7.5 update, I would find a way to keep the button depressed so I could walk away to do something else or sleep or whatever. I try holding down the button with my thumb first to see if it loops properly before I set it to automate itself. Nothing happens and the button feels kind of loose. I lift my finger and the button doesn't come back up. I try to dig it out and the button falls entirely inside the shell where I can't reach it without dismantling the controller.
Now, I don't want a repeat of what happened to that button, so leave the left TAC alone. Instead, I come here looking for the new, proper way to start the loop that I don't have to supervise, because nothing is working as I imagined it should. I have the latest software, fresh batteries, etc. but it doesn't change the fact that I can't get the thing to loop when I tell it to.
