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F4-BMS 2.0 Technical Manual
minumum) value even if their physical 'throw' is already at the maximum (or minimum). An
example might be a throttle slider that just can not report 100% thrust even if it is already at its
maximum positive travel. Saturation zones are always symmetrical, that is, the zones at the
maximum and minumum ends of an axis are of the same size.
¿ Reversal
By activating this option you can reverse an axis, that is, it then reports its minimum value while at
its maximum physical travel, and vice versa.
¿ Axis Types
Axis in Falcon can be of two types: 'unipolar' or 'bipolar'. The difference between the two is that
unipolar axis report value in a non-negative range only, while bipolar axis report value symmetric
to the '0' value. Because of this, some axis (bipolar ones) may be configured to have deadzone
and saturation zones, while others (unipolar ones) may have a saturation zone only.
A bipolar axis can feature saturation and
deadzone
An unipolar axis does not feature a deadzone
An example for an unipolar axis is the throttle, while a classical bipolar usecase is any of the flight
control axis, like pitch.
Of course there exists an exception to all this: the mousewheel axis. As the mouse is per
definitonem a relative device (it is not physically bound to a certain point - desktop-
size/mouselength-cable/radio-range does not count) the absolute coordinates have to be
gathered 'in software', without using DirectX. So neither deadzone nor saturation settings will
apply to any axis mapped to the mousewheel.
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