Professional FPV Drone Piloting

Ravenfield FPV Drone Simulator Plugin

Features

• Lets you take any helicopter-type vehicle in the game (any vehicle whose underlying MonoBehaviour is the Helicopter class) and replace its control logic and aerodynamics with FPV drone behaviour.

// Do NOT use keyboard and mouse — it will feel awful. Use a regular gamepad, or better, a proper RC transmitter. Anyone who flies FPV knows why...

• Currently configurable parameters include:
• Stick-to-rate curves (Actual model)
• Thrust-to-weight ratio
• Propeller pitch
• Throttle response (spool-up/spool-down)
• Air drag
• Level-flight lift bonus
• Ground-effect lift bonus

// The config file is at Ravenfield\BepInEx\config\local.ravenfield.heliagilitycap.cfg and is generated automatically on first launch.

Requirements

• Game: Ravenfield (Steam version, Windows. Untested on iOS.)
• Prerequisite: BepInEx — download: github.com/BepInEx/BepInEx/releases

Installation

• Install BepInEx: download it and extract it into your Ravenfield root folder (the folder containing Ravenfield.exe, usually...\steamapps\common\Ravenfield). Launch the game once so it generates the BepInEx\ folder structure.
• Download HeliAgilityCap.dll from this project and place it in Ravenfield\BepInEx\plugins\.
• Launch the game — if all went well, the config file will be generated at Ravenfield\BepInEx\config\local.ravenfield.heliagilitycap.cfg.

Usage

• In-game, go to OPTION → INPUT, tick Allow Joystick Binds at the top, and adjust the Joystick Deadzone. For a normal RC transmitter, just set it to 0.01.
• Scroll down to the helicopter key bindings (Heli Throttle Up/Down) and bind each channel. If binding fails, your transmitter may not be supported — you can use an input wrapper such as x360ce (download: www.x360ce.com) to map your inputs to an Xbox controller. (It works for other games too.)
• Find a helicopter in-game that you want to convert into an FPV drone and fly it. (You can choose which vehicles use the FPV logic in the config file — just put the vehicle's full name, or part of it, into the Names and RateNames fields.)

// By default, any helicopter-type vehicle whose name contains "FPV" uses the FPV logic. Recommended: the FPV kamikaze drones PG-7v, OG-7v

// Note that you want the vehicle version. Install that and you're good to go.

• Go fly. If it doesn't feel right, tune the parameters in the config file.