Hi,

I'm very new to VO, and I didn't find another thread discussing this. During my short experience i experimented with layouts for controlling the ship in space. This is what I'm currently trying to hardwire into my fingers:

http://1024.cjb.net/files/layout.png

forward/back → e/d
strafe left/right → s/w
strafe up/down → r/f
rotate cw/ccw → q/a

Not intuitive, but I have one finger per column of keys, and i never have to press both left/right or forward/reverse at the same time.

What layouts do you use? Care to share? Here's a Gimp template:
http://1024.cjb.net/files/layout.xcf

(How do you add links here? Embed images? Message Board help?)

I use w-s for acceleration, a-d for horizontal strafing, q-e for vertical strafing, and r-f for rolling. It's just a slight alteration of the default layout.

my sekret will be out now!

w-s forward/back
q-a left/right
r/f up/down
e/3 roll
4 autoaim
2 flight assist

Keyboard:

w/s: Forward/Back
a/d: Strafe left/right
q/e: Roll left/right

Mouse:

Back/forward buttons (4/5 I think): Strafe down/up
Mouse wheel button (3): Flight assist toggle
Change program (6?): Auto aim toggle

I use-

w/s: up/down
q/e: rolls
a/d: side strafes
f: backwards
<space>: fowards
r: flight assist on/off

w/s: up/down
a/d: left/right
r/f: forward/backward
q/e: rolls
mousewheel: cycling through Accel -1000/-500/0/500/1000 (r/f also resets this to Accel 0)
mousewheel click: autoaim toggle

(FA always off)

default controls! whoop whoop!

D to the E to the F to the A to the U to the L to the T

Your keyboard is broken. Most noticeably, the Ctrl and capslock keys are swapped. Fixing that will allow more flexibility in flight control layouts.

wasd for lateral strafes
tab/space for forward/back strafes
f for autobrakes
Ctrl for turbo

Roll, turn, fire, activate, aa toggle, select targets, etc with joystick.

If I'm using rails or flying a moth, I replace the joystick with a mouse.

True, Caps Lock is in the way. But isn't that a default keyboard layout? I've never seen one where Caps Lock is at the lower left ...

w/s/W/S for vertial strafing
a/d/A/D for horizontal strafing
q/e/Q/E for rotating 'bout
r/f/R/F for my own little thrust stepping bind that switches between nine levels of +accelerate

Plus I re-bound t to "none" to avoid saying things like "rrrrrrrrddddssdsdsdeeee"

Besides that, I use the arrow keys to turn the ship, c to shoot, v to keep shooting when I let go. I used to play with a laptop.

Wow, Sun's keyboard :) Do you use Sun's PC, Ladron?

Some of my controls:
w/s: up/down
a/d: left/right
q/e: forward/backward
z/x: rolls
r: select nearest enemy

I experimented with diagonal strafes for a while, but due to my severe lack in scripting kung-fu, I never got far.

Default for me, with certain keys bound to my mouse buttons. But I am planning on trying out a HOTAS system Soon™.

Out of curiosity, why would you want diagonal strafes? What's wrong with holding strafes in two directions?

I use the default keyboard layout and just got used to it. I did set mouse wheel up to toggle FA and mouse wheel down to toggle AA though.

Keyboard:

q+e roll
a+d strafe left/right
w+s strafe up/down
r+f accel/decel

Mouse:
MWHEELUP Next in front
MWHEELDOWN Cycle Targets (targetless)
LMBUTTON primary fire
RMBUTTON secondary
MMBUTTON teritary
XMBUTTON1 Toggle Flight Assist

my old mouse had a bunch more buttons on it, which were useful, but that got stolen with mah laptop...
damnit

har

I used to use the defaults until I got into PvP and started powerstrafing, which I discovered often trying to use r/f for vertical strafes got in the way. I play mouse/keyboard with the folowing strafe pattern:

w/s vertical strafe
a/d horizontal strafe
q/e rolls
r/f throttle
<space> stop

and ' to change between physics and flight assist (although I powerstrafe in F/A mode)

I use the defualt settings with "c" set to turbo instead of tab.
I use control to togge auto-aim and alt to toggle F/A.

r/f up/down
d/g left/right
z/space thrust/reverse
e/t roll

Everything is done without having to move my hand that much, and all degrees of freedom are easily reached at the same time. I don't roll a lot.