Red Planet 4.12.3

Fly: Num 8 2 4 6stick · 7/9 pedals · 0 fires
Throttle: Shift / Ctrlwalks up or down, holds where you leave it
Reverse: Altthe throttle button on the pod stick
Abort: Alt + Qends your mission, score banked

Gamepad

An Xbox-compatible pad drives all five axes and the grip buttons. Hover or tap a control for its RIO address.

Select a control Hover the diagram to read its binding.

Keyboard

Colour is the bank each key drives: green flies the pod, red is an MFD button bank, amber is a column beside the map. Dark keys are unbound and free to take.

flight & stick MFD button banks secondary / screen columns unbound

Select a key Hover a key to read what it drives.

ALT + Q aborts the mission on the spot — score banked, back to the menu or lobby. It is the only chord the engine listens for; the arrow keys are safe.

Where the keys live on the panel

Each MFD carries eight buttons: a four-wide top row and a four-wide row beneath it. The keyboard rows run left to right across the upper MFDs, then the lower pair — the same order your hand finds them in the pod.

1234

Upper Left0x2F – 0x2C
0x2B – 0x28

QWER

5678

Upper Middle0x27 – 0x24
0x23 – 0x20

TYUI

90-=

Upper Right0x37 – 0x34
0x33 – 0x30

OP[]

ASDF

Lower Left0x0F – 0x0C
0x0B – 0x08

ZXCV

F1F2F3F4F5F6

Map · radar Secondary 0x10 – 0x15
Screen 0x18 – 0x1D

F7F8F9F10F11F12

HJKL

Lower Right0x07 – 0x04
0x03 – 0x00

NM,.

G and B stay unbound on purpose: they are the physical gap between the lower clusters. Every button here is also a mouse target on screen — see The mouse below — and lights when the game commands its lamp.

The pod stick

What the gamepad stands in for. This is the cockpit's own TRIGGER STATUS readout — four buttons on the grip, drawn the way the upper-right MFD draws them. Hover one for its address and its stand-ins.

The pod joystick as the cockpit draws it, with its four grip buttons circled — Trigger Status

Grip buttons
Upper	0x47	Y
Main	0x40	A · Space · Num 0
Middle	0x46	B
Pinky	0x45	X
Throttle	0x3F	RB · Alt
Panic	0x3D	LB
Hat	0x41–44	D-pad · arrows
Config 1 · 2	0x37 · 0x36	unbound — yours to map

The throttle button is reverse thrust; the hat looks around. Both live off the grip on the real stick.

Select a button Hover a circle on the grip.

Pod diagram: the stick pitches, rolls and yaws the VTV — *Stick — attitude* Pitch, roll and yaw. **Left stick** on the pad, **Num 8 2 4 6** on the keyboard.

Pod diagram: the throttle drives the VTV forward and back — *Throttle — travel* Forward and reverse. **Right stick Y** on the pad, **Shift** / **Ctrl** on the keyboard; it holds where you leave it.

Both plates are the pod's own instruction art, lifted from the shipped gauge assets.

The mouse

The third input. Every button on every display is clickable and lights when the game commands its lamp — and each one reaches in under the glass beside it, so the picture is the press target. The lit strip at the edge is only the lamp.

press — top row press — bottom row

One MFD. Four buttons above the glass and four below, each 240px deep against a 480px pane — so the two banks meet in the middle and the whole face answers the mouse. Only 10px of each clears the edge to show its lamp.

Arranging the glass

The pod bolted its displays down at one size. On a desktop panel there is room to trade viewscreen for instrument, so all six are yours to size — and the radar to place. Set these in environ.ini beside the exe; they are read once at startup.

CENTERas the pod had it

LEFTbottom corner; the MFD slides inboard

RIGHTthe same, other side

MIDLEFThalfway up; leaves the bottom row alone

MIDRIGHThalfway up, right

environ.ini — display layout
L4MFDSCALE	All five MFDs, as a percentage of pod size. 25–200, default 100
L4MFDSCALE_xx	Any one on its own — UL UC UR LL LR. Unset inherits the line above.
L4RADARSCALE	The radar alone. It already sits at 1.35× the MFDs.
L4RADARPOS	CENTER · LEFT · RIGHT · MIDLEFT · MIDRIGHT

Ask for too much and the layout wins. Panes are clamped against their actual neighbours and shrink evenly, so nothing overlaps and nothing comes out stretched. Scale the MFDs beside the radar and it is the radar that gives way — halfway up a side it has one above and one below, and it grows from the middle both ways.

Filling the screen

The cockpit fits itself to whatever window it gets and keeps 16:9, so a wide panel letterboxes rather than stretching. Launch with -fit — start-fullscreen.bat — and it goes borderless over the whole monitor and picks the render size to land on the viewscreen 1:1, instead of you guessing at -res.

Rebinding

bindings.txt sits beside the exe, written with the full default layout on first run. Change a line, restart. Delete the file to restore these defaults — worth doing after an update, since an existing file is never overwritten.

# grammar
key <name>      button <addr> [toggle]
key <name>      axis <axis> deflect <n>
key <name>      axis <axis> rate <n>
pad <button>    button <addr> [toggle]
padaxis <src>   axis <axis> [invert]
                    [deadzone <d>] [rate <n>]

# deflect springs back, rate sticks where
# you leave it (that is the throttle)

# examples
key J        button 0x40      # trigger on J too
pad X        button 0x40      # trigger on X

key NumPadAdd      axis Throttle rate 0.75
key NumPadSubtract axis Throttle rate -0.75

# drop 'invert' to flip the stick
padaxis LeftStickX axis JoystickX deadzone 0.2

Reference — axes, address space, key names
Axes	Throttle · LeftPedal · RightPedal · JoystickX · JoystickY
Buttons	0x00 – 0x47
Keypads	0x50 – 0x6F — unbound by default; the game never reads them
Key names	A–Z · D0–D9 · F1–F12 · NumPad0–9 · Up Down Left Right · Space · Return · Shift · Ctrl · Alt · OemMinus · Oemplus · Oemcomma · OemPeriod
Pad	A B X Y · DPadUp/Down/Left/Right · Start · Back · LeftShoulder · RightShoulder · LeftThumb · RightThumb
Pad axes	LeftStickX/Y · RightStickX/Y · LeftTrigger · RightTrigger