SimShaker for DCS World and Falcon BMS support thread
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I don’t think that’s a bad motor. It’s normal for KW-908 motors to produce some noise. If one need noiseless solution I woud recommend to choose KW-901 6-motors model.
Ok, noted. Hope to have the chance to get one of them some day! I don’t need a totally silent, I just want one that is hard to hear through my headphones.
What’s the difference between the models?
Regarding taxi bumps I assume you can find some sort of “weight on wheels” or radar altitude 0 in the shared memory showing you are on the ground, and ground speed to calculate the interval of bumps.
I believe that is exactly what is going on in the latest versions. The simulated bump intervals change with taxi speed now IIRC.
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What’s the difference between the models?
Compared to KW-901, KW-908 has a bit more powerfull and more noisy motors and paired motors in buttocks area. Both models have 6 vibe zones.
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Compared to KW-901, KW-908 has a bit more powerfull and more noisy motors and paired motors in buttocks area. Both models have 6 vibe zones.
Ah ok.
I do like the power. Makes you feel pumped up when firing the gun for example
And I just set the headphones a bit louder for volume, then I don’t hear the motors most of the time. Only when taxiing and there’s almost no chatter on the comms. then I hear the motors vibrating, which kills the immersion of very soft bumps a bit, but that’s a small disadvantage, overall the seat is a big immersion improvement in my opinion. -
Ok, noted. Hope to have the chance to get one of them some day! I don’t need a totally silent, I just want one that is hard to hear through my headphones.
I’m about to open my e-shop. Just waiting PayPal approval to connect payments.
Some of you may be my first customers.
I believe that is exactly what is going on in the latest versions. The simulated bump intervals change with taxi speed now IIRC
Confirmed.
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Compared to KW-901, KW-908 has a bit more powerfull and more noisy motors and paired motors in buttocks area. Both models have 6 vibe zones.
I thought I read somewhere that the KW-908 has 8 motors?
Does both the 901 and 908 support the different vibration zones with SimShaker?
One more question I have is with using USB headphones with the USB connection on the Jetseat and the zone vibration settings. The Gametrix website says this isn’t possible, but I could see using SimShaker that it would be.
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I thought I read somewhere that the KW-908 has 8 motors?
Does both the 901 and 908 support the different vibration zones with SimShaker?
One more question I have is with using USB headphones with the USB connection on the Jetseat and the zone vibration settings. The Gametrix website says this isn’t possible, but I could see using SimShaker that it would be.
Yes, 8 motors, but some of them a paired, so resulting 6 zones I can control when developing SimShaker.
Both the 901 and 908 supports 6 different vibration zones with SimShaker.You can use USB headphones, but when JetSeat is running in sound mode, you will need some additional software to stream game sound both to 3.5 mm jack output and USB headphones. SimShaker uses JetSeat in USB mode, no additional tricks needed.
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Andre,
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Andre,
Is paypal setup yet on your website? I tried to order today and paypal was rejected.I’m still waiting PayPal approval. They told me PP is overloaded with approval requests.
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Gents,
I’ve got PayPal approval and my e-shop seems to be ready.
Let’s try it out.
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Worked for me!
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Worked for me!
Confirmed.
Thank you, Matt. I’m preparing the package for you.
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I tested SimShaker with my XRocker seat (run through my video card HDMI sound instead of my motherboard) and I could feel the vibration (Test Vibe Motors), but when I launch BMS I get nothing (I have support selected under special options).
Is there any way to test the software in BMS before I buy?
Thank you
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Hi Toto,
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Thanks for the reply. I tested it out in demo mode and I could feel the runway and landing bump. The only problem is the rate of the taxiway bumps is constant, no matter if I’m going 1 mph or 100 mph
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Did you download an older version? The bumps interval in relation to speed was just added in the last couple of versions (Andre has constantly been tweaking it to users requests).
FWIW, there are a lot more effects that make things much more immersive and actually help your situational awareness.
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Did you download an older version? The bumps interval in relation to speed was just added in the last couple of versions (Andre has constantly been tweaking it to users requests).
FWIW, there are a lot more effects that make things much more immersive and actually help your situational awareness.
I don’t think it’s possible to download an old version oсcasionally, Matt.
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Hi Andre. I see my order for the JetSeat has already cleared customs, so I am eagerly looking forward to receiving it. As I am in the process of building a G Seat like the one Bergisson made (
), I’m pretty interested in making sure that effects are synchronized - I think SimShaker will be an excellent compliment to what I’m building. But it would be a bit weird to feel bumps in the taxiway at one frequency through the motors in the G Seat and in a completely different way via SimShaker.It sounds like you’re using aircraft speed to simulate taxiway bumps. I’m developing using a different approach you might consider (this is for BMS only, which is all I fly). I monitor weight-on-wheels and yaw. BMS actually dips the nose of the aircraft slightly when going over a taxiway seam. You can see this in the FPM bobbing up and down. So watching something like the second derivative of pitch might be a good control input.
Anyway, as a software developer I know how useful most advice about programming is, (“Why don’t you just do X? It should be easy!”) so if there are good reasons this approach is impractical, please ignore me. I just offer it on the off chance you haven’t thought of it, and that it’s helpful.
Thanks again for your help with the order, and for SimShaker!