What were the sizes of the surface and teleprompter mirrors you ordered, 5"? And if a 5.5" magnifying lens can be found, would the size of these also increase? Are those HUD Supports from Mike at Viper Panels or custom?
The length and width of the mirrors I ordered were 6"x10". I ended up cutting down my teleprompter mirror to about 8" in length and gave it the curved top. The first surface mirror I have a feeling should be shorter too, but I’m abit afraid to mess with it right now. Basically I would say you want the width to be the max you can fit inside your hud box. Definately want the mirrors to be the same width or wider as the lens. If I were to do it differently I would go for bigger lens, maybe even 6" diameter (but i don’t think the real thing is that big), a 4x3 aspect ration display, and actually do the math to get it to all work out perfectly.
I do have a slight stretching that occurs at the top 1/4th of my hud due to not having the angles right (why I think I need to shorten my first surface mirror). I made the HUD supports myself, and plan on modifying them a bit to try and correct this stretching.
So, what exactly is the issue with TracIR and a HUD? Can’t you just extract the HUD to the HUD monitor?
Some of the problems are:
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the hud is always showing you information as if you were looking strait ahead, so if you are looking 5 degrees to the left with your track ir, all your hud cues will be off 5 degrees also. This is why I have hud only view mapped to a button on my stick to quickly switch to if I need accurate shooting cues, or when landing usually. Also have a small deadzone set so i can stay in 3d if I want, but sometimes I move my head more than I think.
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HMCS is gonna overlap with your hud when you use that.
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I think formation flying is a little more disorienting if you like to look to the side, cause its gonna look like your hud is flying at whatever you are looking at.