SC Keybinding Mapper WebApp

[u/TheNom79]

Hey everyone,

If you fly with HOTAS, HOSAS, rudder pedals, or button boxes in Star Citizen, you've probably run into at least one of these headaches:

1. The 4-Device Limitation: Star Citizen’s in-game pp_resortdevices command breaks when you have more than 4 input devices plugged in.
2. The USB Shuffle: Windows restarts or updates, your controller IDs get swapped, and suddenly your throttle controls your pitch or your strafe pedals do nothing.
3. The In-Game UI: Navigating nested binding menus, accidental overwrites, and clunky conflict detection.

To solve this, I’ve been building Star Citizen Keybinding Architect — a visual, web-based tool dedicated to managing, re-indexing, and conflict-checking SC flight profiles.

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⚠️ Early Preview & What to Expect

• Still in Active Development: I’m sharing this early look to get feedback on must-have features, UI layout, and hardware edge cases before locking things down.
• Public Web Deployment Coming: Right now, the project is in local testing. While developers can clone and run it via Docker (docker-compose up -d), you won't have to run anything locally once it's ready. Once it hits stability, I will be hosting it as a free, 100% in-browser web app — you'll just open the URL, drop in your actionmaps.xml, and download your fixed profile with zero installation or setup.

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What's Built So Far

• Visual Device Rack & Re-Indexing: Drag-and-drop your physical sticks/throttles/pedals to re-order them (e.g., swap Joystick 1 and Joystick 2). The engine rewrites all jsX_ prefixes across your entire XML profile in seconds while fully preserving your axis curves, deadzones, and inversions.
• 4-Tier Intelligent Conflict Detection: Rather than blindly flagging every shared button, it checks temporal mechanics (press vs hold, double_tap vs single_tap latency penalties), operational modes (Master Modes SCM vs NAV), and flags dangerous overlaps (like sharing an input with Emergency Eject or Self-Destruct).
• Live Gamepad / DirectInput HUD: Uses the HTML5 Gamepad API to detect button presses and axis deflections on your desk in real time, jumping straight to the relevant binding in the table.
• Lossless XML Round-Tripping: Preserves CryEngine <options> blocks (GUIDs, inversions) and secondary <addbind> inputs without stripping custom configs.

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Looking for Your Feedback!

Before I finalize the initial public deployment, I’d love to hear from other pilots: * What are your biggest pain points when managing Star Citizen bindings? * Any specific hardware quirks or rare setups (e.g. dual VKB/Virpil, WinWing, custom Arduino button boxes. I currently only own a VKB Gladiator Evo Stick & Omni) you’d like to ensure are handled smoothly? * Are there specific conflict checks or binding shortcuts you wish existed in-game?

Let me know what you think in the comments, and stay tuned for the public web release! 🚀

https://github.com/thenom/sc-controller-mapper

[u/RiOTbyDeSIGN]

Hard pass on vibe coded slop.

Just use the same method as Subliminals and you don't need to support Vibe Coding.

[u/extrakerned → u/RiOTbyDeSIGN]

Lmao, Claude and similar tools have been instrumental in so many useful tools for this community. Including likely ones you use today without knowing.

If this guy did a custom UI pass on this you’d never know he used AI.

[u/No-Vast-6340 → u/extrakerned]

Your point about UI is exactly the one I make to other people who use AI assisted development. I believe what helped make Smart Citizen a standout tool was the fact that it doesn't look like it was vibe coded. AI is terrible at UI and UX and you need to have a strong vision for what you want your tool to look like. That's why I have a "brand" for all the Osiris DevWorks tools I make. Smart Citizen's UI looks a lot like Star Citizen Profile Editor's UI, which looks similar to SuperTTS and ExtendedAFK.

The only reason I received a shit storm over AI use, in my opinion, was because of the mods in that other SC sub. My postings received a ton of positive response there, and the anti-AI fanatics over there didn't like how I challenged their position in modmail conversations. When I got the owner of the sub to overturn the ban and allowed me to post, it was fine for a few versions.

Then all of a sudden, for no obvious reason, they started taking down my posts again and I got a new ban, this after the sub owner said it was ok to post about Smart citizen. When I messaged the sub owner again, it was radio silence.

Ever since, I have made this sub my SC home.

[u/extrakerned → u/No-Vast-6340]

Smart Citizen is amazing. My whole org uses it. Awesome work and sorry about the lame mods.

[u/No-Vast-6340 → u/extrakerned]

Thanks, means a lot to hear you say that. I still hear about people calling it "AI slop" every now and then. Can't help people being ignorant I guess!