Copy between aircraft and snapshots
Two tabs of Configure > Bindings with DCS chosen work across aircraft and across time: Copy takes the controls you set up once to another aircraft, and Snapshots keeps named copies of the binding files.
Copy
Choose the aircraft to copy to and tick the devices to copy from; the stick, throttle and pedals are ticked to begin with, because those are where the controls people share between aircraft live. Find controls to copy looks at every binding of yours on those devices (your own bindings, and default axes whose curve you changed) and finds the matching action in the other aircraft:
- Same DCS command: both aircraft have the very same command, as with the view and zoom commands shared by every aircraft.
- Same kind of control: pitch, roll, rudder, throttle or collective, the wheel brakes, the four trim directions, view centre, zoom, the radio, the trigger and the kneeboard, matched by what the action is.
- Closest action in this aircraft: a loose match you have to opt into, such as the Huey's force trim for a trim hat.
Each proposal shows the control, the action it would get in the other aircraft, the match kind, Already bound like this when it is, and what the control does there now and would stop doing. Bindings with no counterpart are listed separately. Tick what you want and Preview copying N controls shows the file change before it is written.
Snapshots
A snapshot is a copy of the binding files, kept under RigReady's own folder (snapshots\dcs under the data folder): every .diff.lua file plus modifiers.lua, disabled.lua and wizard.lua, for one aircraft or for all of them. With it RigReady records the date, the DCS version from the log (Installs and aircraft), and the devices with their IDs. Take one before a big change or a DCS update.
- Take snapshot needs a name and a scope: this aircraft (only when it has files of its own) or all aircraft.
- Compare sets a snapshot against the bindings DCS has now, or against another snapshot. Devices are matched by name, so a changed device ID alone is not a difference. For each device that differs it lists what is only on one side and which axes changed their curve.
- Restore puts the files of the covered aircraft folders back as they were and removes files in those folders that were not in the snapshot. Put files under the device IDs the attached devices have now is on by default: a device whose ID changed since the snapshot gets its file under the current ID, so DCS finds it; when several attached devices share a name, those files stay under the old ID for the Device IDs tab. You see every file before anything is written, and the change can be undone on the Safety page.
- Rename and Delete do what they say; deleting a snapshot never touches the current bindings.
A snapshot is narrower than a backup: it holds the binding files only, and lives on this PC in RigReady's folder. The Backups page has snapshots of any tracked item, DCS bindings included.