@AlienMind:

The newest from the 4er line of software is https://gofile.io/d/qHSVdQ from 2011 and the oldest one is https://gofile.io/d/ovsEpP from 2005.
Both support trackir 3, but for wind98 i am not so sure.

…no support for Windows 98 😞

Thanks guys, appreciate your tips. I’ll definitely check it out 🙂

when does the sweatshop get set up @Oakdesign to flood the market? :bdance:

nice job btw.:drink:

John.

Thanks for the tip about this application. I am using a Delanclip normally, but this was not half bad. The “look closer” feature that you get with a full Track IR solution, you can largely get by zooming in or out. Not as smooth, but still functional

I’m using DelanClip Fusion Wireless with my TrackIR, couldn’t be happier.

I understood what you mean, and I will try ! Thanks

SOLVED:
opentrack: output (freetrack 2.0 enhanced) - select interface -> enable both (it was on use freetrack, hide track ir)

yes of course I can offset it by tilting my head in the opposite way but it’s not the aim here 🙂

Hey guys,

the last days I built myself a curved screen with three projectors. The screen does project 214° of view. As BMS only allows a FOV of 140°, off course the picture gets stretched to the sides.
I thought, that would not be a problem, as I interpreted headtracking wrong.

My thoughts where about the following solution for this problem. To explain that, I need to define two terms to make sure, everyone talks about the same.

Center of View (COV): Thats the Area, where the head and the view of the Player looks at. The player looks ahead, trough the HUD, COV is the HUD. The player turns his head 20° to the right, the COV is not the Center of the Screen anymore, but the area, where the player looks, so 20° to the right.

Field of View (FOV): Thats a nonmoving area in the center of the screen, where the player always has his eyes on. The player moves his head to the right 20°, the FOV moves the camera 20° to the left and the “20° to the right view” is in the center of FOV and of the screen now.

The problem was already discussed a bit, but also went a bit off topic then. My goal is not to extract the HMD and project that onto a HMD glas. I want to have the COV working, so the most less stretched screenarea is always where I move my head to and the 3D HUD stays, where it is, at Center of the screen. A nice sideeffect offcourse, the HMCS Symbology is tied to COV and does move with the head also, but it stays on the normal screen and does not have to be coded out.

Here’s the old thread:
https://www.benchmarksims.org/forum/showthread.php?35357-TrackID-moving-HMD-only-for-simpit-not-moving-with-the-rendering-camera-Possible

Here’s a picture of my setup to clarify my goal:

I want to move my head and the headtracker should move COV, not FOV to always have the less stretched view at center of my real view and to move the HMD.
Is there any way, I could achieve that?

At the end, theres a little twist. I could use the explained way only for yaw movments. For pitch, I still need the conventional solution, because I have no dome above me.

Any constructive input is really appreciated, thanks in advance 🙂

Hi guys.
I have a clone of EDtracker that my system sees as Edtracker2_2950 4.1.0 based on a Arduino Leornado board. Dont have real issues except one Everytime i using it it messes up my joystick and axes calibration (microstick mainly and idle/AB settings) is there any walk around that? I use opentrack (latest version i believe). Is there anything i can change to fix that i mean? It sees of course the device as a joystick maybe thats the problem? I have a Cougar for flying 🙂
Thanks!

@kenguan:

Yeah, you guys are right. My camera is about 2.5ft away from my head, and now I noticed that the green LED goes off when my head is tilted upward past a certain angle.
Tried positioning the camera further, but the most I can move it away is total of about 3ft, does not help much.
Is there any way of making the camera sense “wider angle”?

Unfortunately the TIR4 hardware is only 46 degrees FOV, to make it wider you need to retrofit it with a TIR5 to benefit from it’s 51.7 degrees FOV 😉

Edit - one other thing you might try - if the TIR camera is in the centre of your screen and you are using the deers antlers, try offsetting the camera by about 9 inches to the left (towards the antlers).

@massima:

Interesting site, except for the language, i need to translate it. Anyway, the calibration sw is for only windows platform, second it uses the espressif wifi module esp8266 i prefer a classic usb cable. i’ll take a look

The esp8266 is only one possible Version you can eitehr extend with esp8266 for Wifi, HC-05 or 06 for bluetooth or stay with usb

Thank you!

Thanks Dega.
Yeah, silly me didn’t bother reading any docs as “Its only a launcher” lol.
When I installed it and the zip said about overwriting files - I did cancel out and make a backup. I’ll try that then it’ll be either an uninstall (which I can’t imagine will be a problem) or I’ll live with a less than perfect zoom macro.
Thanks though.

It seems that running TIR5 with admin rights did the trick.
Much appreciated!

I’m not sure what changed, but after restarting BMS and Trackhat opentrack several times each and unbind, bind F8 and F9 several times, I started BMS with TrackHat on and tracking, and was able to pause and restart normally. If I continue to have problems I’ll touch base here.

@Minamir:

Since uploading that video I’ve switched to OpenTrack and now TrackIR 4 and of course BMS 4.34.2, but the issue still persists on all headtrack devices and sim versions. Disabling “Realistic Head” didn’t help. Seems like it helps if you either disable Roll, or limit your pitch-up to approx 90 degrees up. That’s slightly less than what BMS allows, but it looks like the view jump happens only after passing the 90 degrees up mark.

Yep, max output for pitch set to 90 degrees and it stopped happening. I guess a falcon limitation is the suspect. I can definitely live with 90 though.

Thanks

@GhastlyTT:

Assign those buttons within TIR and TS3 software themselves and ignore them in Alt Launcher?

Yes, sorry I didn’t follow up here, I had posted it in the Alt Launcher thread also. For the TIR Pause (and any other TIR actions you want to invoke) use the TIR program to set the DX presses in the Hotkeys section. For the TS3 PTT, set the Hotkey in Teamspeak’s Tools/Options/Hotkeys section. All set now, thank you for the response!

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@bubba:

I am re-acquainting myself with the cockpit. The speed brake indicator is hidden behind the canopy control. I have tried different angles but can’t see it. Am I not doing something right?

Do you have 6 degrees of freedom enabled?

Go to Setup/Controllers/Advanced, click the View Control tab, look in the lower right corner you’ll see Enable TrackIR Vector - make this this is selected. Below it is Z-Axis Mode dropdown, you can select either Z-Axis Control (move forward and backwards in your seat) (preferred) or FOV Control (meh).