Track - IR
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I saw this once. How can you design and assemble a TRACK-IR for use in BMS Falcon 4.33?
Thank you all so much for the millions of man hours spent on perfecting the lines of code for BMS 4.33
I know what that means for I have spent hundreds of hours coding in Visual Basic for Microsoft Access applications for my former boss.
Raven
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Just look http://www.delanengineering.com
And Google for freetrack too, you find many guides
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Big thumbs up for the delanclip /w ps3 eyecam from me too, works like a charm and costs only a fraction of TrackIR even if you order it directly from Tomasz who’s based in the UK.
Uwe
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I use freetrack with the PS3 Eyecamera and a homebuilt point model.
I put 2 pieces of exposed negative film together and then covered the lens of the Eyecamera with it. I built my own point model with a winged paper clip, a USB phone charger cord (spliced and mounted to the inner wires of a cat5 cable) a resistor, 3 SFH 485 P IR emitters from Mouser.com, and some bic pens with soft plastic (bendable with heat). The point model was fairly easy to make. Getting Freetrack setup took longer. It tracks as well as can be expected. I get a few stutters every now and again. The paperclip easily attaches to my headset. It works and costed me a grand total of 45 USD.
TBH, if you have the money for TIR (buy the last gen and save some money!) I would buy it. Freetrack takes more resources to run (which can cause issues with your FPS) TrackIR does not do this. You will also be playing the game sooner as TrackIR is ready to go out of the box. From what I have seen, there are less stutters in the tracking. The downside is you have to wear a hat with stupid looking reflectors unless you want to drop another 40 bucks on a clip tracker.
Again, I love my Freetrack! But if I could justify dropping 150 bucks on TrackIR, I would do it.
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Building an IR LED tracking clip is super-simple, if you have a soldering iron and some spare time. The components you need cost about $5 in total. I bought a used TrackIR camera by itself off of eBay for about half price, and the IR LED tracking clip I built for my old freetrack setup works fine.
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I constructed a clip type from some old metal, similar to a metal clothes hanger and some IR LEDs.
Making use of my Oculus DK2 camera with generic USB video drivers.
Works a treat in the evening, daytime use isn’t great since I haven’t applied any kind of filter to the camera and the window behind me saturates the image.
For software I’m using the latest version of OpenTrack.
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I use freetrack with the PS3 Eyecamera and a homebuilt point model.
I put 2 pieces of exposed negative film together and then covered the lens of the Eyecamera with it. I built my own point model with a winged paper clip, a USB phone charger cord (spliced and mounted to the inner wires of a cat5 cable) a resistor, 3 SFH 485 P IR emitters from Mouser.com, and some bic pens with soft plastic (bendable with heat). The point model was fairly easy to make. Getting Freetrack setup took longer. It tracks as well as can be expected. I get a few stutters every now and again. The paperclip easily attaches to my headset. It works and costed me a grand total of 45 USD.
TBH, if you have the money for TIR (buy the last gen and save some money!) I would buy it. Freetrack takes more resources to run (which can cause issues with your FPS) TrackIR does not do this. You will also be playing the game sooner as TrackIR is ready to go out of the box. From what I have seen, there are less stutters in the tracking. The downside is you have to wear a hat with stupid looking reflectors unless you want to drop another 40 bucks on a clip tracker.
Again, I love my Freetrack! But if I could justify dropping 150 bucks on TrackIR, I would do it.
TrackIR has its own hw downsides, overheating for example and of course, THE RIDICULOUS PRICE…
I was using freetrack about a year later when it was invented … dunno, long time , with shitty creative webcam IMsomething in 320x240 on 30fps…
and I’ve never, never, never, had problem with ‘system resources’ even on the ancient P4 HT 3Ghz 15yrs old machine, it was not even dual core.
That was in Falcon Aliied Force.Now I’am using BMS , with PSeye with opentrack , on a Q6600@3Ghz also lemme say ancient machine, and again I dont have any problem with resources…
What kind of resources are we talking about?
Dont get me wrong here, hat down to TrackIR for the starters, hey its a free world market out there, but I just dont want to spent some of ‘$$$’ these ‘resources’ for something that works in about like open software, and
it works that way just about fine… like no problem…Gotcha :headb:
Cheers
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+1 for the Delan clip, I replaced my trackir reflector set up.
The other essential requirement for the Delan clip IMHO is one of these.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Adafruit-USB-Cable-with-Switch/dp/B00KAE3F58/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1447595865&sr=8-1&keywords=usb+cable+power+switch -
I used to use freetrack,
but not anymore.freetrack has lots of compatibility problem with my current windows and sim games,
and for some unknown reason, now it does not work anymore in my system.now I use point tracker - facetracknoir with the old freetrack set,
and it works flawlessly.